King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Name
ASH, Walter William Hector (1906-1998), Rear Admiral

Service biography
Assistant electrical engineer, Admiralty (submarine design) 1932-1937; Instructor in electrical machinery design, RN College Greenwich 1934-1937; electrical engineer, Admiralty (battleship design) 1937-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Fleet electrical engineer on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean 1939-1940; Superintendent electrical engineer, Admiralty (supply and production) 1940-1945; Superintendent electrical engineer, Admiralty Engineering Laboratory 1948-1949; commissioned, RN 1949; Cdr, HMS MONTCLARE 1950-1951; Admiralty (weapon control design) staff 1951-1954; Electrical Engineering Manager, HM Dockyard Devonport 1954-1958; Ship Design Department, Admiralty 1959-1960; Ship Department Directorate, Admiralty 1960-1963; retired 1963

Papers
Ash informed the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives in 1990 that he had no papers No other papers have been traced

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