Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1956-1996 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Correspondence, a television script, press cuttings and photographs relating to signals during World War Two, the Battle of the Atlantic and Operation GRAPPLE, 1956-1996; including correspondence and script for Westward Television documentary on the ... »
System of arrangement
The collection comprises a single box arranged into sections as outlined above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1911; educated University College, Cardiff (engineering) and RAF College Cranwell, 1927-1931; commissioned, 1931; served in flying boat squadron, Malta; studied and taught at School of Navigation, Manston; flying boat squadron at Pembroke Dock and ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Papers presented as a gift to the Centre by his son, Air Commodore Peter D Oulton, in 2002
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
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 ›
Note
Decorations: CB, CBE, DSO, DFC
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
- Communication process
- Disasters
- Group communication
- International conflicts
- Manmade disasters
- Military communications
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Military operations
- Nuclear explosions
- Nuclear weapons
- Operation Grapple (1957-1958)
- War
- Weapons
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Archivist's note
Source: Who's who.
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.