Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1983 (Creation)
- [1970-1980] (Creation)
- 1915-[1921] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
6 files
Scope and content
Copies of papers and photographs relating to his military career, 1915-[1921], dated 1915-[1921], [1970-1980] and 1983, principally comprising letters to his father, 1915-1916; his flying log book, 1915-1917, covering his service with 1 Reserve Aeroplane Sqn, Royal Flying Corps, UK and with 8 and 12 Sqns, BEF, France; notes and texts of lectures relating to aerial combat tactics, produced by instructors at the Royal Flying Corps School of Aerial Gunnery, 1916; his diary, 1918, including details of his work [as an experimental pilot with the Aircraft Directorate and the Air Board]; notebook containing notes on the performance of various aircraft, [1918-1921]; 'Memoir of service with the Royal Flying Corps, 1915 and 1916', written in [1970-1980].
System of arrangement
6 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1894; educated at Repton School and City and Guilds Engineering College, University of London; began apprenticeship with shipbuilders Hawthorne, Leslie and Company, 1912; joined Royal Engineers, 1915; transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1915, and served in UK with 1 Reserve Aeroplane Sqn and with the BEF in France with 8 and 12 Sqns, 1915-1916; Capt, 1916; worked as experimental pilot for Aircraft Directorate, and later Designs Department of the Air Board, [1918-1921]; carried out first tests on man-dropping parachutes from an aeroplane, and designed the necessary casting-off gear; joined staff of Alfred Holt and Company, where he was involved in repairing and reconditioning company ships; rejoined Hawthorne, Leslie and Company, becoming a director in 1922, and serving as chairman, 1943-1965; died in 1981.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1995.
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
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Note
Decorations: Kt, CBE, AFC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Aircraft
- Aircraft engineering
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Engineering
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Log books
- Memoirs
- Military aircraft
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Royal Flying Corps (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.