King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Name
ADAMS, John Harold (born 1918), Rear Admiral

Service biography
Joined RN 1936; Home Fleet 1937-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Western Approaches, Channel and North Africa 1939-1942; Staff Capt (D), Liverpool 1943-1945; Staff Course, Greenwich 1945; Joint Services Staff College 1949; Cdr, HMS YACHT BRITANNIA 1954-1957; Assistant Director, Underwater Weapons Material Department 1957-1958; Capt (SM), 3 Submarine Sqn, HMS ADAMANT 1958-1960; Capt Superintendent, Underwater Detection Establishment, Portland, and subsequently Underwater Weapons Establishment 1960-1962; Imperial Defence College 1963; commanding HMS ALBION 1964-1966; Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) 1966-1968; retired 1968

Papers
CHURCHILL ARCHIVE CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: Papers relating to anti-submarine warfare 1948-1965 (2 boxes); PRIVATE POSSESSION: Adams informed a member of King's College London Department of War Studies in 1998 that he intends to retain his detailed diaries in the family

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