Collection MASON, JM - MASON, Air Cdre John Melbourne (1896-1950)

Key Information

Reference code

MASON, JM

Title

MASON, Air Cdre John Melbourne (1896-1950)

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

(1896-1950)

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.

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Digital copies made from original volumes formerly deposited in the LHCMA, withdrawn by the family, 2015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.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Aug 1997

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area