Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1985 (Creation)
- [1919-1959] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his naval career, [1920-1959], dated [1920-1959], 1985, principally comprising photographs, [1919-1933], notably of the evacuation of [White] Russian refugees, Black Sea, 1919-1920, and of HMS NELSON, West Indies and Panama, 1929-1931, and HMS GANGES, 1931-1933.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1901; entered RN as Paymaster Cadet, 1919; served on HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA, Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1921; Midshipman, 1920; Lt, 1923; served on HMS CASTOR and HMS CALLIOPE, Atlantic Fleet, 1923-1925, and HMS BENBOW and HMS CARDIFF, Mediterranean Fleet, 1925-1929; Secretary to Capt of Fleet, HMS NELSON, Atlantic Fleet, 1929-1931; Lt Cdr, 1931; served on HMS GANGES, 1931-1933, and HMS VICTORY, 1933; Secretary to R Adm Everard John Hardman-Jones, Rosyth, 1933-1935; served on HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN, Home Fleet, 1935-1936, and HMS HERALD, South China Fleet, 1936-1939; Cdr, 1939; served on HMS PRESIDENT, HMS DAEDALUS and HMS HERON, 1939-1942; served on HMS KORONGO, East Indies, 1942-1944, and HMS NIGHTJAR, HMS CONDOR, HMS PRESIDENT and HMS IMPLACABLE, 1944-1949; Capt, 1949; Fleet Supply Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, 1950-1952; Capt-in-Command, Base Supply Officer and Staff Supply Officer to Flag Officer Malta and Staff Supply Officer to Mediterranean Flotillas, HMS PHOENICIA, 1952-1954; Senior Supply Officer, Royal Naval Base, Devonport, HMS DRAKE, 1954-1955; retired from RN, 1955; died in 1992.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 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
- Norwegian
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Compiled Jul 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Civil war
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Photographs
- Political movements
- Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
- Seas
- Ships
- State security
- Vehicles
- Visual materials
- War
- War victims
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- HMS Ganges (Subject)
- HMS Nelson (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.