Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1917-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
approx 750 JPEG images totalling 1GB
Scope and content
Digital copies of flying log books, 1917-1946, notably covering his service with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918, and with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930, and including detailed accounts of bombing raids on France, 1917-1918.
System of arrangement
Original order
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1896; served with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918; served in UK, 1918-1928; served with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930; served in UK, 1930-1943, and India, 1943-1946; Sqn Ldr, 1931; Wg Cdr, 1937; retired in [1946]; died in 1950.
Repository
Custodial history
Digital copies made from original volumes formerly deposited in the LHCMA, withdrawn by the family, 2015
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.
Note
Compiled Aug 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
- Royal Naval Air Service (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.