King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Command RN 1900; World War I 1914-1918; in charge of submarine E9, Heligoland Bight 1914; Baltic 1915; Assistant Director of Mobilisation, Admiralty 1926-1928; 2 Battle Sqn 1933-1935; commanding 1 Cruiser Sqn 1935-1936; commanding Reserve Fleet 1937-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Flag Officer commanding Northern Patrol 1939-1940; Flag Officer commanding Submarines, Gosport 1940-1942; Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches 1942-1945; retired 1945

Papers
ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE MUSEUM, GOSPORT: Papers, comprising log of E9, written by Horton (ref: A1914/19); original notes and signals, World War I (ref: A1918/28); file on submarine construction, World War II, including correspondence with AF Sir (Alfred) Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, Adm B F Fraser, R Adm Dennis John Hoare and memoranda 1941-1942 (ref: A1941/2); correspondence with anti submarine experimental establishment relating to mine detection (ref:A1942/1); lecture on submarines (ref: A1926/19); file on submarine escapes, including letters 1941-1942 (ref: A1941/62); newspapers cuttings etc re E19 and other submarines in Baltic campaign (ref: A1982/36); notes on Horton's career in the Submarine Service (ref: A1980/6)

Publications
: R Adm William Scott Chalmers, Max Horton and the western approaches: a biography of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954)

Index terms
SUBJECTS underwater warfare 1914; underwater warfare 1941-1942; research and development 1940-1942; technology 1940-1942
PLACES North West Europe 1914
NAMES

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