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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0099 KCLMA Iremonger
- Title
- IREMONGER, Gp Capt James Henry (1918-2002)
- Date(s)
- 1896-1960
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 2 boxes (0.2 cubic metres)
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Iremonger, James Henry, 1918-2002, Group Captain
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born 1918; student, RAF College Cranwell, 1936-1938; pupil, School of Army Co-operation, 22 (Army Co-operation) Group, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1938; pilot, 20 Sqn, North West Frontier, India, 1939-1940; ADC to Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Air Headquarters, India, 1941; 155 Sqn, Risalpur, North West Frontier, India, 1942; Officer Commanding B Flight, 5 Sqn, Dum Dum, India, 1942; Sqn Ldr, 67 Sqn, Alipore, India, 1942; Commanding Officer, 17 Sqn, Bengal, India, 1942; on staff, 224 Group Headquarters, Chittagong, 1942, India, 1942-1943; Sqn Ldr, 197 Sqn, RAF Tangmere, 1943-1944; Commanding Officer, 486 (New Zealand) Sqn, Fighter Command and Tactical Air Force, 1944; 83 Group, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1944-1945; Wg Cdr, 83 Group Headquarters, Germany, 1945; student, RAF Staff College, Bracknell, 1945-1946; Fighter Command Headquarters, 1946-1948; Sqn Ldr, Central Fighter Establishment, West Raynham, 1948; Personal Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command Headquarters, 1948-1949; Air Ministry, 1949-1951; RAF Kabrit, Egypt, 1951-1954; Senior Air Staff Officer, British Forces Aden Headquarters, 1954; Fighter Command Headquarters, 1954-1955; Commander, RAF Horsham St Faith, 1955-1958
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Placed in the Centre by the family in 2003
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Papers, photographs and publications of Gp Capt James Henry Iremonger, relating to his career, 1936-1959, including: orders for 1 Airborne Allied Army for Operation MARKET, Netherlands, 17 Sep 1944; Second Army intelligence summaries, 2-4 May 1945; 83 Group intelligence summaries, 34 May 1945; stereoscopic slides of aerial photographs showing results of RAF bombing raids over France and Germany, 1943-1944; copy pages from Iremonger's flying log book, 1936-1958; Bag the Hun! (Air Ministry, Apr 1943), a booklet of mathematical exercises for fighter pilots.
- System of arrangement
Broadly chronological
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
Collection level description
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
- King's College London College Archives
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Compiled by Kate O'Brien, July 2003
- Rules or conventions
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
July 2003
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Subjects
- Aerial bombardment
- Air warfare
- International conflicts
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Operation Market (1944)
- War
- Warfare
- Wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- World wars (events)
Personal names
- Iremonger, James Henry, 1918-2002, Group Captain
- Iremonger, James Henry, 1918-2002, Group Captain
Corporate names
- RAF, Royal Air Force
Places
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
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