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 1876; HMS EXCELLENT 1894-1896; Naval Ordnance Department 1896-1898; Commander, HMS PROMETHEUS, HMS CHALLENGER, HMS SUPERB and HMS EXCELLENT, Gunnery School, Whale Island, Portsmouth 1910-1912; Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes 1912-1914; World War I 1914-1918; Third Sea Lord 1914-1917; Commander-in-Chief, China Station 1917-1919; President, RN College, Greenwich 1920-1922; retired 1922

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Papers (one file) relating to his service as Third Sea Lord 1915-1916, including; report by Cdr Murray Fraser Sueter, 'History of armoured cars, juggernauts, land battleships, tanks', Sep 1916; 'Report on the design and construction of first land ship (tank)', by Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, Sep 1916; biographical notes on Tudor by his family 1976 No other papers have been traced

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS armoured warfare 1916
PLACES
NAMES Adm Robert William Craigie (Tudor married Craigie's widow)

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