King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Educated at King's College School and HMS BRITANNIA; entered RN 1876; East Sudan 1884-1885; HMS TERRIBLE, Natal Naval Bde, South Africa 1899-1900; relief of Ladysmith 1900; North China 1900; R Adm, Home Fleet 1910-1911; Naval Adviser to Turkish Government 1912-1914; World War I 1914-1918; Adm Superintendent of Malta Dockyard 1914-1916; Senior British Naval Officer, Malta, Mediterranean 1915-1916; President, Shell Committee, Admiralty 1917; retired 1919

Papers
ADMIRALTY LIBRARY,MINISTRY OF DEFENCE LONDON: Naval papers 1884-1898 (ref: MSS 101-14) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Extract from a letter describing his experiences during battle of Colenso, South Africa, Dec 1899 (ref: P 192); NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers 1878-1920 (ref: MS 79/018), including; logbooks 1878-1885; Boer War diaries, notes and photographs 1899-1900; official out-letter book 1912-1913; letters to his wife 1912-1916; diary kept by his wife during Turkish posting 1912-1914; letters concerning the Dardanelles campaign from AF Sir John Henry Edward De Robeck, 6th Baron, AF Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss of Wemyss and FM Paul Sandford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES Turkey 1912-1914; Middle East 1912-1914; Gallipoli 1915; Balkans 1912-1915
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