King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
World War I 1914-1918; awarded Victoria Cross 1917; Queenstown Command, Ireland 1917-1919; commanding battle-cruiser HMS TIGER 1925-1927; retired 1928; MP (Nationalist) 1931-1935; World War II 1939-1945

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers of Alexander Barrie include a collection of Campbell's papers principally relating to his service in Q-ships during World War I, and including; Campbell's correspondence with Adm Sir Lewis Bayly 1916-1930; correspondence relating to Campbell's service as Captain in charge of HM Dockyard, Simon's Tower, South Africa 1929; photocopies of correspondence with R Adm George Knightley Chetwode regarding the Invergordon Mutiny 1931; typescript statement by Campbell on the Invergordon Mutiny 1931

Publications
My mystery ships (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1928); Number thirteen, being the autobiography of Rear Admiral G Campbell (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1932); Sailormen all (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1933); Brave men all: tales of great courage (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1935); Captain James Cook, RN, FRS (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1936); Witch of the wave (F Warne & Co, London, 1937); A son of the sea (F Warne & Co, London, 1938); Dog Nelson, AB (F Warne & Co, London, 1938); Abandon ship! Tales of famous shipwrecks (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1938); with Idrysin Oliver Evans, The book of flags (Oxford University Press, 1950)

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES
NAMES Adm Sir George Campbell 1931

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