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 1916; World War I 1916-1918; Midshipman, HMS ROYAL OAK, Black Sea and Dardanelles 1920; Sub Lt, HMS VENDETTA and HM Yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT 1924; service in destroyers, Mediterranean and China Station 1927-1936; Naval Staff College 1939; World War II 1939-1945; Chief of Staff, Londonderry 1944-1945; Capt, 3 Flotilla, commanding HMS SAUMAREZ 1945-1946; Deputy Director of Operations Div, Admiralty 1948-1950; Capt-in-Chief, Simonstown, South Africa 1950-1952; Head of British Naval Mission to Greece 1953-1955; retired 1956

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Typescript account, 'Memoirs of a Salt Horse', relating to his life and career 1902-1956, including; details of his command of HMS ONSLAUGHT in Russian convoys 1942-1943; details of his command of HMS SAUMAREZ in the Mediterranean 1945-1946, including an account of how HMS SAUMAREZ hit an Albanian-laid mine in the Corfu Channel, 1946

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES USSR 1942-1943; Southern Europe 1945-1946
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