Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Copies of detailed narrative diaries and transcripts of Naval signal messages on RN operations, 1939-1945, including service at RN Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1939, on HMS JERVIS in the North Sea, 1940, with the Mediterranean Fleet, 1940-1941, with Combined Operations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1942-1944, and the British Pacific Fleet, 1945-1946. Also, typescript copies of operational orders for Operation NEPTUNE, Normandy, 1944.
System of arrangement
5 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1911; served in Royal Navy [1931]-1954; Sub Lt, 1932; service on HMS DECOY, 1 Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, 1933; Lt, 1933; served on HMS RENOWN, Battle Cruiser Sqn, Home Fleet, 1934-1935; HMS PEMBROKE, Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945, in North Sea and Mediterranean on HMS JERVIS, 1940-1941; with CombinedOperations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1944; in Pacific, Japan and Australia, 1945-1946; HMS APPLEDORE, 1946; Cdr, 1947; Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty, 1947-1948; served on HMS HORNET, 1952-1953; retired 1954; died in 1990. Publications: Maritime power (British Atlantic Publications, Northampton, 1975), The Atlantic Alliance: a quarter century summary and a look ahead (British Atlantic Publications, Northampton, 1976).
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Mulleneux in 1981.
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
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
The original of the diary dated 1940-1941 is held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Note
Compiled Sep 1998
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Amphibious warfare
- Armed forces
- Communication process
- Diaries
- Documents
- Group communication
- Higher science education
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military communications
- Military education
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Operation Neptune (1944)
- Operation Overlord (1944)
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Ships
- 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
- HMS Jervis (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.