King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined RN 1915; Midshipman during World War I 1915-1918; HMS IRON DUKE 1919; World War II 1939-1945; in charge of destroyer HMS GURKHA 1939-1940; sunk by enemy action 1940; in charge of battleship HMS RODNEY 1941; decorated for service in sinking of BISMARCK 1941; Assistant Director, Admiralty Plans Div and member of Joint Planning Committee, War Cabinet 1942-1943; in charge of aircraft-carrier HMS GLORY 1944; British Pacific Fleet operations against Japanese 1944-1945; post-war in charge of RN Air Service and cruiser HMS SUPERB 1946-1950; Director of Naval Intelligence 1951-1954; retired 1954; founder member of Institute of Strategic Studies; founder member of Council of Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament; Chairman of British Council of Churches Committee on Middle East 1967

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Buzzard 1955-1964 (ref: LH 1/140) CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: Conference papers on deterrence and disarmament 1960-1970 ( uncatalogued and closed to researchers, 64 boxes, ref: BZRD), also; one file of early naval papers; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: Papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Buzzard relating to defence polices 1959-1960 (ref: MB1/J123)

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