Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1976] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 volume
Scope and content
And so to battle: a sailor's story , a memoir of his life and career, 1900-1967, notably his service in Russia, 1919-1920, the Mediterranean, 1922-1926, 1930-1931, 1938-1939 and 1943, and the East Indies, 1945, his work with the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty and his service with 10 Destroyer Flotilla in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay, 1944, written in [1976] and privately published in 1979.
System of arrangement
Single item
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1900; joined RN, 1915; served as kite balloon spotter on HMS EMPRESS OF INDIA, Scapa Flow, 1917-1918, served in Black Sea, 1919-1920, and Mediterranean, 1922-1926; served on staff of Royal Naval Gunnery School, Devonport, 1928-1929; 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS ROYAL OAK,1929-1930; 1st Lt, HMS DOUGLAS and Gunnery Officer, Mediterranean SubmarineFlotilla, 1930-1931; Staff Officer, British Naval Mission to Greece, 1931; Gunnery Officer, HMS ACHILLES, 1933-1936; 1st Lt , HMS EXCELLENT, 1936-1937; commanded HMS WALPOLE, 1938; commanded HMS IVANHOE in Mediterranean, 1938-1939, and North Sea,1939-1940; Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty, 1940-1941; Maintenance Commander, Trincomalee Naval Base, Ceylon, 1942; served in Mediterranean, 1943; Commanding Officer, HMS TARTAR and Capt, 10 Destroyer Flotilla in English Channel and Bay ofBiscay, 1944, and East Indies, 1945; Capt, Royal Naval Gunnery School, Chatham, 1946-1948; Assistant Director of Operations Division (Ship Target Trials), 1948-1949; Capt, HM Dockyard, Chatham, 1949-1951; Capt, 5 Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Sqn, 1951-1953;retired list, 1953; Civil Defence Officer, Surrey[1953]-1967.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Jones in 1984.
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
Compiled Feb 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.