Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1994 (Creation)
- 1989 (Creation)
- 1987 (Creation)
- 1983 (Creation)
- [1968-1977] (Creation)
- 1956 (Creation)
- 1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his life and RN career, 1902-1956, dated 1956, [1968-1977], 1983, 1987, 1989 and 1994, principally comprising photographs relating to the mining of the HMS SAUMAREZ, Corfu Channel, 1946; 'Memoires (sic) of a salthorse', an illustrated account of his life and career, 1902-1956, notably covering his service on HMS MASHONA, North Sea, Norway and Atlantic, 1940-1941, and HMS ONSLAUGHT, Russian convoys, 1942-1944, as Chief of Staff, Londonderry, 1944-1945, on HMS SAUMAREZ, Mediterranean, 1946-1947, and in South Africa, 1950-1952, and Greece, 1953-1955, written in 1989 for private circulation.
System of arrangement
1 file.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1902; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; entered Royal Navy, 1916; Midshipman, HMS ROYAL OAK, Black Sea and Dardanelles, 1920; Sub-Lt, HMS VENDETTA and HM Yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT, 1924; served on various destroyers, Mediterranean and China Stations, 1927-1936; attended Naval Staff College, 1939; commanded HMS WREN, 1939, HMS MASHONA, 1940-1941 and HMS ONSLAUGHT, 1942-1944; Capt. 1943; Chief of Staff, Londonderry, 1944-1945; Capt, 'D' Third Flotilla, in command of HMS SAUMAREZ, Mediterranean, 1946-1947; Deputy Director, Operations Division, Admiralty, 1948-1950; Capt-in-Charge, Simonstown Dockyard, South Africa, 1950-1952; R Adm, 1953; headed British Naval Mission to Greece, 1953-1955; retired, 1956; died in 1994.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1996.
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.
Note
Decorations: CB, DSC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Armed forces
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Memoirs
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Seas
- Ships
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- HMS Mashona (Subject)
- HMS Onslaught (Subject)
- HMS Saumarez (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.