Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1919-1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file, 2 volumes
Scope and content
Two manuscript narrative diaries by Webb-Bowen, detailing the voyage of HMS IRON DUKE to the Crimea, Russia, via Gibraltar, Malta, Suda Bay, Crete, and Constantinople, Turkey, and subsequent operations in the Black Sea and Turkey, 21 Mar 1919-30 Nov 1920; typescript orders by Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, for officers and men of HM Ships IRON DUKE, MARLBOROUGH, BENBOW, MONTROSE, SPEEDY and SPORTIVE, relating to landing operations against Nationalist Turkish forces, Gemlik and Yeni Keui, Turkey, Jul 1920.
System of arrangement
1 file, 2 volumes.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1894; commissioned into the Royal Marines, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; service with Royal Naval Div, 1914; Special Service, HMS HYACINTH, Flagship of R Adm Herbert Goodenough King-Hall, Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 1914-1915; Lt, 1915; Capt, Royal Marines Artillery, 1918; served on HMS IRON DUKE, Flagship of Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, Black Sea and Turkey, 1919-1920; service on HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, Flagship of Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, 1922-1923; Capt, Royal Marines, HMS HAWKINS II, Colombo, Ceylon, 1931-1933; served in Chatham, Kent, 1933-1934; Maj, 1934; service in Deal, Kent, 1934-1935; Bde Maj, Deal, Kent, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; acting Lt Col, 1940; Lt Col, 1942; Col, War Service Rank, 1945; retired [1945]; died 1983.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1999.
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
Compiled Sep 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Civil war
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military organizations
- Nationalism
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Political doctrines
- Political movements
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Seas
- Ships
- State security
- Turkish Civil War (1919-1920)
- Vehicles
- War
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
People and Organisations
- Robeck, Sir John Michael, de, 1862-1928, 1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet (Subject)
- HMS Benbow (Subject)
- HMS Iron Duke (Subject)
- HMS Marlborough (Subject)
- HMS Montrose (Subject)
- HMS Speedy (Subject)
- HMS Sportive (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.