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 1905; service on HM Yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT 1914; Grand Fleet, World War I 1914-1918; HMS AGINCOURT 1914-1916; Flag Lt to R Adm Douglas Nicholson, 4 Battle Sqn, Grand Fleet 1917-1918; Fleet Signal Officer, Mediterranean 1922-1924; attended courses at RN, Army and RAF Staff Colleges 1928-1931; executive officer, HMS CARDIFF, Africa Station 1931-1933; Staff Officer (Operations and Intelligence), Nore Command 1935; Senior Naval Officer, West River, China 1936-1938; World War II 1939-1945; Capt, HMS Signal School 1939-1941; Capt, HMS KENT, convoy escort duties, North Russia 1941-1943; Cdre, RN Barracks, Chatham 1943-1945; Aide-de-camp to King 1944; commanding 10 Cruiser Sqn and Second in Command Home Fleet 1945-1946; Adm Superintendent, HMS Dockyard, Rosyth, Scotland 1947-1951; Flag Officer, Scotland 1950-1951; retired 1951

Papers
LIDDLE COLLECTION, LEEDS UNIVERSITY: Copy of RAF Staff College lecture 'The submarine and anti-submarine war 1914-1918'; essay on signals at Jutland 1916; typescript account, 'HMS AGINCOURT With The Grand Fleet 1914-1916'; copy of memoirs; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH: Papers 1914-1941, including; notes on life in the Grand Fleet 1914-1916 and copies of correspondence with Prof Arthur Jacob Marder (ref: Acc 4317); precis and photocopy of lecture, 'The submarine and anti-submarine war 1914-1918', delivered to RAF Staff College, Bracknell in 1934 (ref: Acc 5705); photocopy of accounts of voyage to Murmansk 1941 (ref: Acc 5705); and of his 'Essay on signalling at the Battle of Jutland' 1916 written in 1929 (ref: Acc 4198); catalogue of his naval library

Publications
Random Naval Recollections, 1905-1951 (published by author, Cardross, Scotland, 1979)

Index terms
SUBJECTS underwater warfare 1914-1918; training 1934
PLACES USSR 1941
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