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; HMS GLASGOW, World War I 1914-1918; battle of Coronel, Chile, Nov 1914; battle of the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic, Dec 1914; World War II 1939-1945; commanding HMS GLASGOW in the Indian Ocean and Far East 1940-1941; recapture of Berbera, Somalia 1941; Member of Admiralty Delegation, Washington DC, USA 1942-1943; on staff of Adm Sir Bertram Home Ramsay during planning of Mulberry harbours for invasion of Normandy 1944; Naval Officer-in-Charge of Mulberry Harbour 'B', Arromanches, Normandy 1944; R Adm Training Battleships, Home Fleet 1946-1947; retired 1947

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers 1910-1964 (ref: DS/MISC/52), including; correspondence 1929-1964, relating to the battle of Coronel and the battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914. Also contemporary press cuttings; reports, messages and correspondence relating to his command of HMS GLASGOW 1940-1941; including Hickling's report to the Commander-in-Chief East Indies Station on HMS GLASGOW's pursuit of the German battleship VON SCHEER in the Indian Ocean, Feb 1941; note and reports on coastal defences in Malaya, Mar-Jul 1941; Hickling's report on HMS GLASGOW's accidental sinking of HMIS PRABHAVATI, Dec 1941; reports, messages and correspondence 1943-1946 relating to the planning and construction of the Mulberry Harbours, Normandy; including a technical report on the construction of Mulberry B by Capt John Holmes Jellett, Superintending Civil Engineer, Arromanches, Dec 1944; typescript, 'The story of the Mulberries' by Hickling and Brig Ian L H Mackillop (68 pages), no date; maps and plans of the Mulberry harbours; incomplete draft autobiography, 'Saltwater Admiral', no date

Publications
: Freshwater admiral: fishing the Tongariro River and Lake Taupo (A H & A W Reed, Wellington, New Zealand, 1960); One minute of time: the Melbourne-Voyager collision (A H & A W Reed, Sydney, Australia, 1965); Sailor at sea (William Kimber, London, 1965); Postscript to voyager: the Melbourne-Voyager collision: a sequel to one minute of time (A H & A W Reed, Sydney, Australia, 1969)

Index terms
SUBJECTS strategy 1944; operation OVERLORD 1944
PLACES France 1944; North West Europe 1944
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