King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Midshipman, RN 1913; World War I 1914-1918; Dogger Bank 1915; Naval Attache in The Hague, Netherlands, and in Brussels, Belgium 1939-1940; World War II 1939-1945; commanded HMS KING GEORGE V 1945-1946; retired 1950

Papers

LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Schofield 1960-1969 (ref: LH 1/624) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Journals and papers 1913-1915 (ref: P 72); NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of Commander David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby, include 16 letters from Schofield 1965-1967 (ref: BTY/21/4)

Publications
: The Royal Navy today (Oxford University Press, 1960); The Russian convoys (B T Batsford, London, 1964); British sea power; naval policy in the twentieth century (Batsford, London, 1967); with Louis Frederic Martyn, The rescue ships (William Blackwood & Sons, Edinborough and London, 1968); The loss of the Bismarck (Allan, Shepperton, 1972); The attack on Taranto (Allen, London, 1973); Operation Neptune (Allan, London, 1974); The Arctic convoys (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977); Navigation and direction. The story of HMS Dryad (K Mason, Havant, 1977)

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