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Copies of papers, 1916-1958, including account of the Battle of Jutland, witnessed by Brind from HMS MALAYA, 5 Battle Sqn, 1916; text of lecture 1919, relating to anti-submarine warfare, 1914-1918, and possible future development; notes, dated 1931, on the conduct of the Dardenelles campaign; report on night fighting by single ships, 1924; night order book, HMS BIRMINGHAM, South East Asia, 1929-1940; report written in 1946 on the sinking of HMS ROYAL OAK, Scapa Flow 1939, by German submarine U47, quoting from U-boat's log; texts of speeches, 1947-1958; letter of condolence from Adm Hon Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax to Edith Blagrove, widow of R Adm Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove, killed in the sinking of HMS ROYAL OAK 1939, with details of the circumstances of his death; letters home from the Far East, 1949; official report on the blockade of Shanghai and British inability to defend Hong Kong from possible future attack by Chinese Communist forces, 1949; newspaper cuttings relating to the HMS AMETHYST Incident, Yangtze-Kiang river, China, 1949, and Brind's order, as Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet, for the successful breakout 1949; notes and lecture texts relating to the role of NATO, 1953-1955; typescript notes on the post war role of the Royal Navy, 1955.

Narrative of operations of 7 Division, 1918 by the Revd E C Crosse including reference to Clifford's service as Officer Commanding 95 Field Company, Royal Engineers; papers relating to Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928 including maps; British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936, including intelligence reports on French Somaliland, air survey operations, Walwal incident between Italian and Ethiopian troops, and printed reports on the work of the Commission; Chief Engineer, China Command, including report on Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, 1941-1942; Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-1957, including diaries, 1951-1955, printed reports, and maps of the boundary, 1946-1949; published articles by Clifford, 1928-1947, mainly on boundary commissions; technical manuals, 1924-1932, including surveying; publications and printed works, 1892-1952, including boundary commissions.

Material relating to military career of Lt Col Col Reginald Horace Fielding-Mould, 1917-1945, comprising audio cassette recordings of his reminiscences about his service in France and Belgium, 1918, Turkey, 1922-1923, Hong Kong, 1930, India, 1935, 1942-1945, including 5th Afghan War, 1935, and France, 1940, including the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, May-Jun 1940, and his experiences in the Territorial Army, 1936-1940, ND; four photographs relating to Chanak Crisis, 1922; two manuscript obituaries of Fielding-Mould, written by Henry Thoresby, Fielding-Mould's nephew, for [regimental and school magazines], 1987.

Papers of Captain Frank Edward Weatherstone Lammert on service in Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) in Far East and Mediterranean, 1943-1964, including photocopies from The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office) (Ref PRO ADM 199) of Lammert's reports on his command of Netherlands East Indies motor patrol vessel P-10 and the events of his escape from Singapore to Australia, Feb-Mar 1942; magazine, The Sun Life War Front , 20 Mar 1943, including Lammert's account of his escape (see also PRO copy); certificates of mentions in dispatches, Jan 1944 and Feb 1945; three copies of The Navolteer , magazine of the Singapore Division, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Vol. 1 Numbers 2-4, Dec 1956, June 1957 and Dec 1959; Vietnamese and Singaporean press cuttings relating to goodwill visit by HMS PANGLIMA, under Lammert's command, to the Vietnamese Navy at Saigon, Apr 1957; order of ceremony for unveiling of war memorial to Malayan RNVR, Singapore, Jul 1957; letters of congratulation, 1957-1958, on relinquishing post as Officer Commanding Singapore Division, Malayan RNVR, and on award of CBE; programme for ceremonial transfer of Malayan RNVR to the Federation of Malay, Sep 1963; correspondence re Lammert's transfer to RNR retired list, 1964, and 1994-1995; exchange of letters, 7 and 14 Feb 1989, concerning Lammert's war service , 1939-1945, and other Malayan RNVR personnel; copy correspondence, Nov 1994, re the placing of an annual in memoriam notice in the _Times and Telegraph _, for members of the Malayan RNVR who died serving in HMS LABURNUM; correspondence with Audrey Holmes McCormick, 1994 and 1996, re her research for proposed book on volunteer forces in the Far East, 1930s - 1940s including detailed 15pp letter from Lammert relating to his naval service and to his early life in Hong Kong and China (including a meeting, aged 4, with the Chinese Emperor); photocopy map of Malaysia and Sumatra, [1964]; photographs (uncaptioned), chiefly of Malayan RNVR official events. Also letter and notes to Lammert from his brother, Robert T Oswald Lammert (1902-1981), Jun 1979, describing his experiences as a Prisoner of War, in Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942-1945, with photocopies of drawings by Ronald Searle, done in Changi camp, and a Union Flag picked up by Robert Lammert on the march from central Singapore to Changi camp, 1942, which he occasionally surreptitiously hoisted in camp.

Two official Admiralty photographs of the Hong Kong Surrender Ceremony, 1945.

Papers relating to his medical career with the RN, 1939-1952, dated 1908, [1943]-1950, principally comprising typescript texts written as Chief Malariologist with the British Pacific Fleet, [1943-1946], including accounts of his work in Singapore, Hong Kong and Pacific Islands; typescript texts by Mockler and others on malaria and its treatment, [1943-1946]; official annual reportsas Naval Medical Officer of Health, Hong Kong, 1951-1952; lecture notes circulated at the RN Medical School, Alverstoke, to accompany a course on radiological defence, [1947]; British, Australian and US military publications on health and medical issues, 1942-1950, mainly malaria and tropical diseases.

Photograph albums relating to his military career, [1914-1942], notably his service in Northern Ireland, 1920, Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1930, North Africa and India, [1930-1940], and Kenya, 1940-1942, with associated papers, [1914-1942], notably a diary of C and D Companies, 1 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt, Belfast, 28 Jul-30 Jul 1920.

Self-published edition of Chinese Ink and Brush Sketches of Prisoner of War Camp Life in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1948) by Lt Alexander V Skvorzov, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force [1941-1945], including fourteen ink and brush sketches drawn by the author whilst he was a prisoner of war in Hong Kong, 1943-1945