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 AREA

3.1.1 Reference code(s): GB0099 de Courcy-Ireland

3.1.2 Title: DE COURCY-IRELAND, Capt Stanley Brian, RN (1900-2001)

3.1.3 Date(s): 1990 (covers 1900-1951)

3.1.4 Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

3.1.5 Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk or size): 1 volume and one file

3.2 CONTEXT AREA

3.2.1 Name of creator(s): Ireland | Stanley Brian | de Courcy- | 1900-2001 | Captain, Royal Navy

3.2.2 Administrative/Biographical history: Born 1900; RN Cadet, Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight, 1913-1914; Midshipman, battleship HMS BELLEROPHON, Grand Fleet, Scapa Flow, 1916; battle of Jutland, 1916; witnessed scuttling of captured German Fleet, Scapa Flow, 1919; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1919-1920; Lt, HMS VENOMOUS, 1920-1921; Flinders Naval Depot, Australia, 1922-1924; HMS FROBISHER, 1924-1926; trained as observer, Fleet Air Arm, 1926; HMS FURIOUS, 1926-1928; Ground Instructor, RAF Leuchars, Scotland, 1928-1929; HMS HERMES, Hong Kong, 1929-1931; HMS FURIOUS, 1931-1934; HMS COURAGEOUS, 1934-1935; Staff Officer, Operations, to Adm Noel Frank Laurence, HMS GLORIOUS, 1936; Director of Training and Staff Duties, Air Ministry, 1936-1938; Second in Command, HMS NEWCASTLE, 1939-1941; Air Ministry, 1941-1942; commanded HMS OWL, Fearn, Scotland, 1942-1944; Deputy Director (Naval), Combined Operations Headquarters, 1944-1945; commanded HMS AJAX, 1946-1948; Deputy Director, Department of Naval Equipment, Admiralty 1948-1951; retired, 1951

3.2.3 Archival history:

3.2.4 Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Placed in the Centre by the family, 2002 and 2009

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

3.3.1 Scope and content: Memoir by Captain Stanley Brian | de Courcy-Ireland, A Naval Life (Englang Publishing, Poulton, Gloucestershire, second edition, 2002), written in 1990, detailing his life and career, 1900-1951, including the scuttling of the captured German Fleet at Scapa Flow, 1919, and his service at Combined Operations Headquarters, 1944-1945, under Maj Gen Robert Edward Laycock. Also: further notes on the scuttling of the German fleet, 1919, written as a review of Dan Van Der Vant's THE GRAND SCUTTLE (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982); notes on the visit, 25 Dec 1944, to HMS AJAX in port at Piraeus, Greece, by Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, Archibishop of Athens, for talks with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

3.3.2 Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

3.3.3 Accruals:

3.3.4 System of arrangement: One volume

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

3.4.1 Conditions governing access: Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

3.4.2 Conditions governing reproduction: 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 Director of Archive Services.

3.4.3 Language/scripts of material: English

3.4.4 Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

3.4.5 Finding aids: Collection level desciption

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

3.5.1 Existence and location of originals:

3.5.2 Existence and location of copies: Copies are held by the Imperial War Museum and the Naval Historical Branch Library

3.5.3 Related units of description: The Department of Sound Records, Imperial War Museum, holds recorded interviews with Captain Stanley Brian de Courcy-Ireland

3.5.4 Publication note:

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Note:

3.7 DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

3.7.1 Archivist's note: Compiled by Kate O'Brien

3.7.2 Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

3.7.3 Date(s) of descriptions: July 2003

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