King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined Royal Artillery 1891; 'Q' Battery Royal Horse Artillery, South African War 1900; Adjutant, Royal Horse Artillery 1904; Staff College 1906-1907; General Staff 0fficer Grade 2, War Office 1909-1912; Assistant Military Secretary to Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Inspector of Overseas Forces 1913-1914; World War I 1914-1918; Commander, 1 Bde and 4 Bde, Royal Flying Corps, France 1916; Royal Artillery, 29 Div 1916-1917; General Officer Commanding, air defences of London 1917-1918; Air Ministry 1918-1919; Commander, London Air Defence Area 1919-1920; 1 Air Defence Bde, Aldershot 1920-1924; General Officer Commanding, Territorial Air Defence Bde and Inspector of Anti-Aircraft 1924-1928; founded Observer Corps 1928; retired 1929

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Diaries 1917-1919; scrap-book of newspaper cuttings and photographs; photograph album, mostly of aircraft 1914-1920 (ref: 66/75/1)

Publications
Air defence, an account of air defence in England #from 1914 #to 1918 (Longmans & Co, London, 1929)

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