Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 2002 (Creation)
- 1983 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file or 0.01m3
Scope and content
Three articles by Air Vice Marshal John Downey: 'The ageing of deterrence', reprinted from The year book of world affairs , 1983; 'The West against terrorism', at www.opendemocracy.net, April 2002; 'The Third World versus the West', at www.opendemocracy.net, August 2002.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1920; educated Whitgift School; entered Royal Air Force 1939; served in Coastal Command, World War Two, 1939-1945; anti U-boat operations, 1945; Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, 1956-1958; commanded Bomber Command Development Unit, 1959-1960; head of North East Defence Secretariat, Cyprus, 1960-1962; Command, RAF Farnborough, 1962-1964; a Director of Operational Requirements (RAF), Ministry of Defence, 1965-1967; Imperial Defence College, 1968; Commandant, RAF College of Air Warfare, Manby, 1969; Commander, Southern Maritime Air Region, 1969-1971; Air Vice Marshal, 1970; Senior RAF Member, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1972-1974; Deputy Controller of Aircraft (C), Ministry of Defence, 1974-1975; retired 1975; died in 2010.
Publications: Management in the Armed Forces: an anatomy of the military profession (London: McGraw-Hill, 1977).
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by AVM Downey, August 2005
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.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Decorations: CB, DFC, AFC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon