GB 0099 de Courcy-Ireland - DE COURCY-IRELAND, Capt Stanley Brian, RN (1900-2001)

1 volume and one file

GB 0099 de Courcy-Ireland 1990 (covers 1900-1951) Collection (Fonds) 1 volume and one file Ireland , Stanley Brian , de Courcy- , 1900-2001 , Captain, Royal Navy

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

Placed in the Centre by the family, 2002 and 2009

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.

One volume

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

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

Collection level desciption

Copies are held by the Imperial War Museum and the Naval Historical Branch Library

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

Compiled by Kate O'Brien 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. July 2003 Wars (events) Amphibious warfare International conflicts Ireland , Stanley Brian , de Courcy- , 1900-2001 , Captain, Royal Navy x de Courcy Ireland , Stanley Brian Laycock , Sir , Robert Edward , 1907-1968 , Knight , Major General Military engineering RN , Royal Navy x Royal Navy War Warfare World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Placed in the Centre by the family, 2002 and 2009

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.

One volume

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

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.

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English

Collection level desciption

Copies are held by the Imperial War Museum and the Naval Historical Branch Library

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

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.

• Engels