Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1974 (Creation)
- 1939-1945 (Creation)
- [1917-1919] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service in the Fleet Air Arm, 1939-1945 and 1974, principally comprising aerial propaganda leaflets collected by Freedman. 'Annals of minds at war', an article on aerial propaganda by John Moorehead, from The Daily Telegraph, 8 Mar 1974. Three scripture pamphlets issued by the United States Army, namely Roman Catholic and Protestant editions of 'The Gospel according to St Matthew' and 'Psalms from the Jewish Holy Scriptures', 1943-1944. Notebook of Trooper T W Thorn, Surrey Yeomanry, containing a diary covering his service in Salonika, Jun 1917-Jan 1919. Notes on the history and use of grenades, and descriptions and drawings of different types of grenades, [1917-1919].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1917; served in Fleet Air Arm, 1938-1946; died in 1987.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1983 and 1991.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Swedish
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Ancient religions
- Armed forces
- Catholicism
- Christianity
- Communication process
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Judaism
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military equipment
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Persuasion
- Primary documents
- Propaganda
- Prose
- Protestantism
- Religions
- State security
- War
- War propaganda
- Weapons
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Moorehead, John, fl 1974, journalist (Subject)
- Thorn, T W, fl 1917-1919, trooper (Subject)
- Fleet Air Arm (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
- US Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.