GB 0099 KCLMA Coote - COOTE, Wg Cdr Maxwell Henry (1893-1981)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Coote 1921, 1981 Collection (fonds) 1 file Coote , Maxwell Henry , 1893-1981 , Wing Commander
Born in 1893; educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Field Artillery, 1914; wounded at Gallipoli, 1915; transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1916; posted to No 56 Sqn, 1917; served in France with BEF, 1917; joined No 61 Sqn and participated in air defence of London, 1918; Flight Cdr, No 37 Sqn, 1918; posted to Middle East, 1920; temporary ADC to Sir Winston Churchill, 1921; ADC to Governor General of Australia, 1924-1926; joined and later commanded No 19 Sqn, 1927; retired in 1928; recalled in 1939 and served World War Two in North Africa, Middle East and Italy; Sqn Ldr, 1943; retired, 1946; died in 1981.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.

Copy of diary covering his service as ADC to Winston Churchill at the Cairo Peace Conference and including details of meetings with Col Thomas Edward Lawrence (later known as Thomas Edward Shaw), Mar 1921; photocopy of photograph of Coote, 1917; brief account of his life and career, 1893-1946, written by his godson, Air Cdre B H Newton in 1981.

1 file

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

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.
English

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

RAF Museum, London

RAF Museum, London, also holds flying log books and photographs.

Sep 1996 Armed forces Cairo Churchill , Sir , Winston Leonard Spencer , 1874-1965 , Knight , statesman Coote , Maxwell Henry , 1893-1981 , Wing Commander Diaries Diplomacy Documents Egypt Foreign relations Information sources International relations Literary forms and genres Literature Military organizations Newton , Barry Hamilton , b 1932 , Air Vice Marshal Nonfiction North Africa Organizations Photographs Primary documents Prose RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force Shaw , Thomas Edward , 1888-1935 , Aircraftman , Lieutenant Colonel x Lawrence of Arabia x Lawrence , Thomas Edward State security Urban Visual materials

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.

Copy of diary covering his service as ADC to Winston Churchill at the Cairo Peace Conference and including details of meetings with Col Thomas Edward Lawrence (later known as Thomas Edward Shaw), Mar 1921; photocopy of photograph of Coote, 1917; brief account of his life and career, 1893-1946, written by his godson, Air Cdre B H Newton in 1981.

1 file

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

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.

• English

• Latin

English

RAF Museum, London, also holds flying log books and photographs.

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

• English