GB 0099 KCLMA Burnett - BURNETT, Rear Adm Philip Whitworth (1908-1996)

9 boxes, including 1 outsize

GB 0099 KCLMA Burnett 1922-1996 Collection (fonds) 9 boxes, including 1 outsize Burnett , Philip Whitworth , 1908-1996 , Rear Admiral

Born, 1908; educated, preparatory school, Seascale; Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; midshipman in HMS EMERALD, [1927]; Lt, 1930; HMS KELLY, 1939-1941; Comdr, 1940; HMS OSPREY, 1941-1943; Western Approaches Escort Groups, 1943-1945; Capt, 1945; Chief of Staff to Commander in Chief, Portsmouth, 1955-1957; Rear Adm, 1955; retired from the Army, 1958; died, 1996.

Received from the family, 1998.

Papers of Rear Adm Philip Whitworth Burnett, relating to his life and career, 1922-1996, chiefly photographs, reports and press cuttings relating to Nanking, China, 1927 (where Chinese National Government troops attacked British and American residents: Burnett was a midshipman in HMS EMERALD, which bombarded city); photographs of Shanghai, Karachi and Diyatalawa, 1927; photographs of Abadan, Basra and Kuwait, 1928; photographs and correspondence relating to his service in HMS KELLY, 1939-1940, and to the sinking of HMS KELLY, May 1940; photographs and press cuttings relating to North Atlantic anti-submarine operations, 1943-1945.

Original order.

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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 and Information Management, King's College London.

English

No additional finding aids.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Who's Who.

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.

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Received from the family, 1998.

Papers of Rear Adm Philip Whitworth Burnett, relating to his life and career, 1922-1996, chiefly photographs, reports and press cuttings relating to Nanking, China, 1927 (where Chinese National Government troops attacked British and American residents: Burnett was a midshipman in HMS EMERALD, which bombarded city); photographs of Shanghai, Karachi and Diyatalawa, 1927; photographs of Abadan, Basra and Kuwait, 1928; photographs and correspondence relating to his service in HMS KELLY, 1939-1940, and to the sinking of HMS KELLY, May 1940; photographs and press cuttings relating to North Atlantic anti-submarine operations, 1943-1945.

Original order.

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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 and Information Management, King's College London.

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English

No additional finding aids.

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.

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