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 1902; World War I 1914-1918; Persian Gulf 1922-1923; Staff Officer, 1 Minesweeping Flotilla 1923-1924; Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, Melbourne, Australia 1925-1927; Military Staff College, Camberley 1928; Head of naval mission, China 1931-1933; Commanding 1 Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean 1934-1936; HMS St VINCENT and in charge of Boys Training Establishment 1936-1938; World War II 1939-1945; HMS RAMILLIES, 1 Battle Sqn, Mediterranean 1939-1940; Middle East Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt 1941; Combined operations 1943; Flag Officer in charge of Harwich 1944; Schleswig-Holstein and Kiel, Germany 1945-1946

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Copy of autobiography; NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, LONDON: Unpublished autobiography, `Flashlights on the Past' (three volumes) 1903-1922; account `Flashlights on German Naval Disarmament' 1945-1946; papers relating to naval mission to China 1931-1933; papers relating to Dieppe Raid, France 1942; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: Papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Baillie-Grohman and R Adm H E Horan 1953 about the Dieppe raid, 1942 (ref: MB1/B74)

Publications
: with Anthony Heckstall Smith, Greek tragedy: on the evacuation of Greece in April 1941 (Anthony Blond, London, 1961)

Index terms
SUBJECTS combined operations 1942
PLACES Far East 1931-1933; France 1942; North West Europe 1942
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