Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copies of official photographs of HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945, including details of anti-aircraft guns; aircraft on board (some crashed onto deck); aircraft being unloaded by crane; Suez Canal; wardroom and ratings messdeck, Christmas 1944; boxing and hockey on deck. Also copy of a certificate of service for 1943-1946; wireless history sheet, 1943-1945.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1925, trained as a telegraph operator, HMS ROYAL ARTHUR, 1943; escort carrier HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945.
Repository
Custodial history
Kenneth Wretham loaned the items for copying in 2003
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
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Originals retained by Kenneth Wretham
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Wretham, Kenneth Edward, b 1925, telegraph operator (Subject)
- HMS Rajah (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.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 project.