Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1925-1945] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers principally comprising text of lecture on the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and China in 1937, including a detailed account of the Battle of Shanghai as witnessed from HMS DANAE, 1937; draft of lecture recounting his experiences on board HMS DIDO during the evacuation of Crete, Apr-Jun 1941, [1945].
System of arrangement
1 file.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1894; engineer, RN, 1921; Engineer Lt Cdr, 1931; Engineer Cdr, 1935; served in the Far East 1937, and in the Mediterranean, 1941; died 1974.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.
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
Compiled Mar 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Maritime warfare
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Ships
- Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- HMS Danae (Subject)
- HMS Dido (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.