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 1918; World War II 1939-1945; Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 1946-1948; Naval Aide-de-camp to the King 1947-1948; Flag Officer, Submarines 1948-1950; Flag Officer, Second in Command, Mediterranean Fleet 1950-1951; Vice Chief of Naval Staff 1951-1954; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station and Allied Forces, Mediterranean 1954-1957; Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel and southern North Sea 1957-1959; First and Principal Naval Aide-de-camp to the Queen 1958-1959; retired list 1959; Governor and Commander-in-Chief Malta 1959-1962

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of R Adm Harry Philip Currey include a letter from Grantham congratulating Currey on his Gibraltar service 1956; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Grantham as Vice Chief of Naval Staff 1953-1954 (ref: MB1/H218); Mountbatten papers include correspondence concerning the arrangements for Grantham's take-over from Mountbatten as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 1953-1954 (ref: MB1/H116, H234); Mountbatten papers include personal correspondence with Grantham 1955-1959 (ref: MB1/I188)

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