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 1917; World War I 1917-1918; World War II 1939-1945; Deputy Director of Plans and Cabinet Offices 1940-1942; Cdr, HMS MAURITIUS, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and Normandy 1943-1944; Director of Underwater Weapons, Admiralty 1945-1946; Imperial Defence College 1947; Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet 1948-1949; Naval Secretary, Admiralty 1950-1952; Flag Officer, Second in Command, Mediterranean 1952-1954; Vice Chief of Naval Staff 1954-1957; Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic Area 1958-1960; First and Principal Naval Aide-de-camp to the Queen 1959-1960; retired 1960

Papers
CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: Unpublished autobiography 1901-1987, eight vols in three boxes (ref: WDVS); LIDDLE COLLECTION, LEEDS UNIVERSITY: recording of an interview relating to his service in Russia; copy midshipman's journal 1919-1920; typescript recollections of World War I service 1917-1918; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Davis relating to Mediterranean Command 1953-1954 (ref: MB1/H218); Mountbatten papers also include correspondence with Davis as Vice Chief of Naval Staff 1955-1958 (ref: MB1/I453)

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