Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1920-1921] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copy of memoir covering the period 1914-1921, including his service in World War One in the Mediterranean, 1914-1915 and 1917-1918, and the North Sea, 1916-1917, notably the Battle of Jutland, 1916, in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War, 1918, and on fishery duties in the English Channel, 1920, written in [1920-1921].
System of arrangement
Single item.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1897; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; served on HMS DORIS, Mediterranean, 1914-1915, HMS VALIANT, North Sea, 1916-1917, HMS LOBELIA, Mediterranean, 1917-1918, HMS CALYPSO, Baltic, 1918, and HMS TRING, English Channel, 1920; retired from RN, 1920, but rejoined to fight in World War Two; died in 1981.
Repository
Custodial history
Copy made by the Centre in 1982 from original loaned by the family.
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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Existence and location of copies
Liddle Collection, University of Leeds.
Note
Compiled Feb 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Civil war
- Documents
- Fishing rights
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International law
- International relations
- Law of the Sea
- Maritime warfare
- Memoirs
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Political movements
- Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
- Seas
- Ships
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- 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
- HMS Calypso (Subject)
- HMS Doris (Subject)
- HMS Lobelia (Subject)
- HMS Tring (Subject)
- HMS Valiant (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.