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 1898; World War I 1914-1918; Dardanelles 1915; President, Submarine Commission 'C', Naval Inter-Allied Commission of Control; R Adm (D), Destroyer Flotillas, Mediterranean 1933-1936; V Adm Commanding Battle Cruiser Sqn and Second in Command, Mediterranean 1937-1938; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff 1938-1939; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 1939-1942; Head of British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA 1942; Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force, North Africa 1942; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 1943; First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff 1943-1946

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Adm Sir Gerald Charles Dickens include correspondence with Lord Cunningham 1915-1962; the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence 1954-1955 (ref LH 1/211) BRITISH LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, LONDON: Correspondence and papers (ref: Add MSS 52557-84); CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: Papers and letters 1936-1963 (ref: CUNN); the papers of AF Sir James Fownes Somerville include correspondence with Cunningham 1943-1944 (ref: SMVL); IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead, include two letters from Cunningham, Apr and Jun 1944 (ref: BLM 97/13, 24); the papers of Adm Sir William Jock Whitworth include letters from Cunningham 1941-1943 (17 items), including comment on the progress of operations in the Mediterranean, naval staff appointments and Anglo-US relations; the papers of Adm Sir Gerald Charles Dickens (ref: 90/35/2, PP/MCR/93) include letters from Cunningham 1941-1959 (41 items); NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH: Letters from Cunningham to Professor Douglas Duncan 1941-1958 (ref: Acc 11201); NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers (ref: CNM)

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