Summary Guide

Note: The item numbers represent a subset from ISAD(G) rules (General International Standard Archival Description) promulgated by the International Council on Archives to standardise archival description world-wide. Only item numbers relevant to our specific archive are included here.

3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Barnett M H

3.1.2 Title: BARNETT, Air Commandant Dame (Mary) Henrietta (1905-1985)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1940-1960

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 4 volumes, 1 file

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1905; joined WAAF, 1939; served with WAAF in World War Two; in charge of WRAF personnel at RAF Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy, [1945]; Inspector, WAAF, 1948; Deputy Director, WAAF, 1949-1952; Officer Commanding RAF Hawkinge, 1952-1956; Director, WRAF, 1956-1960; died in 1985.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Photographs and press cuttings relating to her service with WAAF and WRAF, 1940-1960, notably her work as Director of WRAF, 1956-1960. Typescript account of her command of WRAF personnel at RAF Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy, [1945], ND.

3.3.4 Arrangement: 4 volumes, 1 file

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

3.4.2 Access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

3.4.3 Copyright: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the College Archivist.

3.4.4 Language: English

3.4.6 Finding aids: Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS

3.5.3 Related units of description: The Centre also holds the papers of Barnett's brother Maj Benjamin George Barnett (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Barnett B G).

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Apr 1997

3.6.2 Decorations: DBE

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