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 1910; World War I 1914-1919; airships with RN Air Service; transferred to RAF 1918; Deputy Director of Intelligence, Air Ministry 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Air Officer in charge of Administration, General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France 1939; Director of Military Co-operation, Air Ministry 1940-1941; Chief of Air Staff, New Zealand, and Commander, Royal New Zealand Air Forces, South Pacific 1941-1943; Air Officer in charge of Administration South East Asia Air Command 1943-1946; RAF Representative, Washington, USA 1946-1948; Air Member for Technical Services, Air Council, Air Ministry 1948-1951; retired 1951

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Typescript account, `Epic Violet', relating to the antecedents of World War II, the phoney war and the evacuation of Dunkirk 1939-1940; the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Goddard 1951-1967 (ref: LH 1/317) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: The Department of Sound Records holds a 3 hour, 55 minute interview, with transcript, (ref: Goddard 000303/16) relating to Goddard's service 1915-1919 and including details of training in balloons and airships, and the use of airships in anti-submarine patrols and their effectiveness; PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON: Account of World War I experiences 1914-1918 written as Staff College assignment (AIR1/2390/228/11/130); SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include personal correspondence with Goddard 1954-1955 (ref: MB1/I182)

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS air intelligence 1939; reconnaissance 1939-1940; inter-service relations 1940
PLACES North West Europe 1939-1940
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