King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
World War I 1914-1918; HMS NOTTINGHAM 1914; HMS TIGER 1914-1917; battle of Jutland 1916; HMS GERANIUM, Mediterranean 1917-1918; joined submarine service 1918; service in submarines in Baltic, China, Home Waters and Mediterranean; Naval Staff College 1929; Army Staff College, Camberley 1934; on naval staff, Admiralty 1935-1937; submarines, World War II 1939-1945; raising of HM Submarine THETIS 1939; Capt (submarines), Colombo, Ceylon 1939-1945; Malta 1940; Mediterranean 1940-1941; Chief of Staff to Adm (submarines) 1942-1944; commanding HMS PHOEBE during operations on Burma coast 1944-1945; Imperial Defence College 1946; Cdre, RN Barracks Devonport 1947-1949; Flag Officer (Submarines) 1950-1951; Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport 1952-1954

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Photocopies of correspondence with AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, concerning Mountbatten's visit to HMS PHOEBE 1947; article by Raw, 'Submarines: some remarks on the capability and limitations of submarines and suggestions for their employment in time of war' published in Royal Navy Review 1932; letter from Adm Sir Richard Webb concerning Raw's article on the use of submarines 1932; submarine sketch book 1917; RN SUBMARINE MUSEUM, GOSPORT: Letter concerning X Craft exploits against Tirpitz 1944, written in 1961

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS underwater warfare 1917; underwater warfare 1932; underwater warfare 1944
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