Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1978 (Creation)
- [1944]-1945 (Creation)
- 1916 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Copy of his account of Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, written on 4 Jun 1916. Copy of text of his despatch from HMS SCYLLA on the Normandy landings, 6-7 Jun 1944, broadcast on the [Forces Programme], 7 Jun 1944, with covering letter, 24 Jun 1944. Copies of extracts from his diary covering his discussion with Adm Hon Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay about the planningof the Normandy landings, Dec [1944], and his visit to Germany, Jun 1945, including his observations on German scientific and technical developments and his interviews with British and German naval officers. Two letters to Grenfell's wife from Baron von Müllenheim-Rechberg, a survivor of the sinking of the Bismarck, May 1941, dated 1978, concerning Grenfell's book The Bismarck episode (Faber and Faber, London, 1948).
System of arrangement
2 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1892; Lt, 1914; served on HMS REVENGE, Battle of Jutland, 1916; Lt Cdr, 1922; Cdr, 1927; served on teaching staff of Royal Naval College, Greenwich; correspondent for The Sunday Times, HMS SCYLLA, 1944; visited Germany, 1945; died in 1954. Publications: A cruiser commander's orders (Gieves, Portsmouth, 1933), The art of the admiral (Faber and Faber, London, 1937), Sea power in the next war (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1938), The men who defend us (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1938), Service pay (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1944), The Bismarck episode (Faber and Faber, London, 1948), Nelson the sailor (Faber and Faber, London, 1949), Main fleet to Singapore (Faber and Faber, London, 1951), Unconditional hatred (Devin-Adair Co, New York, 1954).
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.
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
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Note
Compiled Nov 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Marine engineering
- Maritime warfare
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Overlord (1944)
- Organizations
- Shipbuilding
- Ships
- State security
- Transport engineering
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Ramsay, Sir Alexander Robert Maule, 1881-1972, Knight, Admiral (Subject)
- Rechberg, Burkard, von, Müllenheim-, fl 1941-1980, Count, German naval officer (Subject)
- Bismarck, German battleship, 1939 (Subject)
- German Navy (Subject)
- HMS Scylla (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.