Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1993] (Creation)
- 1991 (Creation)
- [1987] (Creation)
- 1984-1985 (Creation)
- 1956 (Creation)
- [1939-1951] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 files, 1 audio cassette
Scope and content
Papers relating to his RAF career, 1939-1951, dated [1939-1951], 1984-1985, [1987], 1991, 1993, particularly his service in the USSR, 1941, and Sweden, 1948, principally comprising photographs of Haw and his RAF colleagues, [1939-1951]; press cuttings, 1941, [1946], 1948, 1956, [1987], 1991, [1993]; 'Pilot's notes for Spitfire 22 and 24 Griffon 61 engine' (Air Publication 2816 B andC), prepared by the Air Ministry, 1947, with amendments list, 1950. Audio tape of interview with Paul Hamlin, 1993, concerning Haw's service at Coolham Airfield in 1944.
System of arrangement
3 files, 1 audio cassette
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1920; trained as a lithographer; joined RAF, 1939; served with 504 Sqn, Battle of Britain, 1940, and with 151 Wing, Murmansk, USSR, 1941; awarded Order of Lenin, 1941; commanded RAF squadron at Coolham Airfield, West Sussex, and took part in invasion of Normandy (Operation OVERLORD), 1944; Flight Lt, 1946; commanded 65 Sqn on mission to Sweden, 1948;retired, 1951; died in 1993.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1995.
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
- Russian
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, but some Russian
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Publication note
Coolham Airfield remembered, memories and anecdotes of a Sussex D-Day fighter station and village compiled by Paul Hamlin and Ann Davies (Paul Hamlin, Horsham, 1996) and Hurricanes over Murmansk by John Golley (Stephens, Wellingborough, 1996).
Note
Compiled Nov 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Aircraft
- Air warfare
- Armed forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military aircraft
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- State security
- 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
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.