King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Midshipman, World War I 1918; student, Cambridge University 1922; specialised in navigation 1924; RN Staff College 1930; World War II 1939-1945; Director of Plans, Admiralty 1946-1947; Cdr, HMS IMPLACABLE 1948-1949; Director of Naval Training 1949-1950; Chief of Staff to Head of British Joint Services Mission, Washington DC, USA 1950-1952; Flag Officer, Home Fleet Training Sqn 1952-1953; Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic 1953-1955; retired 1956

Papers
No reply to approach letter to family, 1990 IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers 1918-1945; PERSONAL POSSESSION: Chris Cook, Sources in British political history, 1900-1951, volume 2 (Macmillan, London, 1975) reported that five personal diaries kept during World War II were extant

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