Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Photocopies of papers relating the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 Dec 1914, comprising letter from Laborde to his father describing the action, written on 13 Dec 1914; account of the battle written by 1 and 2 Gunnery Officers of the German armoured cruiser GNEISENAU, 1914.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1895; Clerk, HMS INFLEXIBLE, 1912-1915; died in 1983.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre in 1983 from originals lent by the family.
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
Imperial War Museum
Note
Compiled Feb 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Gneisenau, German armoured crusier, 1906 (Subject)
- HMS Flexible (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.