Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949-1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 volume
Scope and content
Presentation photograph album of HMS GLORY's tour of duty in the Mediterranean, 1949-1950.
System of arrangement
single item
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1904; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osbourne and Dartmouth; specialised in flying 1927; Cdr, 1938; Capt, 1943; R Adm, 1953; served in World War Two; Chief of Staff to Flag Officer, Naval Air Pacific, 1944-1946; Director Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty, 1946-1949; commanded HMS GLORY, 1949-1950; Directing Capt, Senior Officers' War College, 1951; Flag Officer, Malaya, Nov 1953-Apr 1956; retired list, 1956; Naval ADC to the Queen, 1953; died in 1985.
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.
Note
Decorations: CB, OBE
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- HMS Glory (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.