Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1940]-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 reel
Scope and content
Microfilm copies of papers relating to his naval career, 1942-1946, principally comprising 'Africa Navy blues', an illustrated account of his experiences in the RN, 1942-1946, written in 1946, covering his service on HMS BIRMINGHAM in a convoy from Egypt to Malta (Operation VIGOROUS), June 1942, and on anti-submarine trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, 1942, during the Allied invasion of Madagascar, 1942, and in South Africa, 1942-1945; diary, 1943-1945. 'War time trawler', a transcript of a broadcast by James McClurg of the South African Broadcasting Corporation concerning his experiences on board an anti-submarine trawler during World War Two, written in [1940-1945].
System of arrangement
1 reel
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Joined RN, 1942; served in HMS BIRMINGHAM in convoy from Egypt to Malta (Operation VIGOROUS), June 1942; served on anti-submarine trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, Madagascar and South Africa,, 1942-1946; died in 1987.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by the family in 1987.
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. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Note
Compiled Oct 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Air warfare
- Anti-submarine warfare
- Diaries
- Documents
- Film media
- Information media
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Memoirs
- Microfilms
- Microforms
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Nonfiction
- Operation Vigorous (1942)
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Ships
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
People and Organisations
- McClurg, James, fl 1940-1945, broadcaster (Subject)
- HMS Birmingham (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.