King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, Surgeon Probationer, RN Volunteer Reserve 1914; World War I 1914-1918; learnt to fly 1915; transferred RN Air Service 1916; HMS REPULSE, aircraft carriers HMS FURIOUS and VINDICTIVE; transferred to RAF 1918; HMS VINDICTIVE, Baltic 1919; Coastal motor-boat raid on Kronstadt, USSR 1919; Instructor, RAF Staff College 1924-1927; RAF Training Base, Leuchars 1928; Commander, Flying Boat Sqn, RAF Calshot; School of Naval Co-operation, Lee-on-Solent; Imperial Defence College 1931; Commander, RAF Station Kohat, India 1932-1935; Senior Instructor, RAF Staff College 1935-1937; RAF Instructor, Imperial Defence College 1937-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Director General of Organisation, Air Ministry 1939-1941; Deputy Air Member for Supply and Organisation 1941-1942; Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command 1942-1947; retired 1947

Papers
Donald informed the IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON in 1970 that he had only personal papers, of no historic interest; IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Department of Sound Records has an interview, with transcript (ref: Donald 000018/11) relating to Donald's service 1910-1918, including details of training, World War I UK coastal patrols, the raid on the Zeppelin sheds at Tondern, Germany (now Tønder, Denmark), Jul 1918, and the reasons for the failure of the raid, operations in the Aegean, and the Turkish surrender, 1918

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES North West Europe 1918; Mediterranean 1918
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