Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939-1964 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers relating to service in HMS GLOUCESTER, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, World War Two, including photocopy of diary, 1939-1940, naval messages, 1940-1943, and photographs; official service records, 1941-1958; and papers relating to naval career, 1949-1964, including article dated 1965, 'A Perspective View of Naval Engineering', on the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy.
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically in sections according to service.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
1910; educated at Huddersfield College and Leeds University; commissioned into Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1939; served in HMS GLOUCESTER and HMS ORION, World War Two, 1939-1945; transferred to Royal Navy in 1946; Rear Admiral, 1962; Director of Engineering and Training Division, Admiralty, and Deputy Chairman of Naval Engineering officer, 1962-1965; retired in 1965; died in 1987.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1991.
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
Script of material
Uploaded finding aid
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Decorations: CB
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Electrical engineering
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Marine engineering
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Naval engineering
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Photographs
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Ships
- State security
- Transport engineering
- Vehicles
- Visual materials
- 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 Gloucester (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.