GB 0099 KCLMA Gray - GRAY, Gp Capt Kenneth (d 1988)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Gray

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GRAY, Gp Capt Kenneth (d 1988)

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  • Created 1931-1961 (Creation)

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1 volume and 1 photograph

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Biographical history

Served in World War Two with No 4 Training Command; attached to 98 Gp HQ, Egginton Hall, Derbyshire, 1943-1944; took part in bombing missions over North West Europe with 320 Sqn, 1944-1945 and 98 Sqn, 1944-1945; Officer Commanding 608 Sqn, RAF Downham Market and 142 Sqn, RAF Gransden Lodge, 1945; Officer Commanding 252 Sqn, RAF Araxos and 13 Sqn, RAFHassani, Greece, 1945-1946; Officer Commanding and RAF/USAF Senior Liaison Officer, RAF Sealand, 1951-1954; Officer Commanding No 2 Maritime HQ Unit, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Edinburgh, 1961; died in 1988.

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Gray Created 1931-1961 Collection (fonds) 1 volume and 1 photograph

Served in World War Two with No 4 Training Command; attached to 98 Gp HQ, Egginton Hall, Derbyshire, 1943-1944; took part in bombing missions over North West Europe with 320 Sqn, 1944-1945 and 98 Sqn, 1944-1945; Officer Commanding 608 Sqn, RAF Downham Market and 142 Sqn, RAF Gransden Lodge, 1945; Officer Commanding 252 Sqn, RAF Araxos and 13 Sqn, RAFHassani, Greece, 1945-1946; Officer Commanding and RAF/USAF Senior Liaison Officer, RAF Sealand, 1951-1954; Officer Commanding No 2 Maritime HQ Unit, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Edinburgh, 1961; died in 1988.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1989.

Papers relating to his RAF service, 1931-1961, principally comprising his flying log book, 1931-1954, including details of bombing missions, North West Europe, 1944-1945; unsigned typescript report recommending the rearming of No 232 Wing and No 252 Sqn with Mosquito XXVIs, [1945-1946]; photograph of portrait of MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, by Francis Beresford, signed by Beresford, 1955.

1 volume, 1 photograph

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

Jun 1997 Beresford , Francis , fl 1955 , artist International relations Information sources Documents Log books State security Armed forces Military engineering Warfare Air warfare International conflicts World wars (events) Wars (events) War World War Two (1939-1945) Transport Vehicles Aircraft Military aircraft Organizations Military organizations Trenchard , Hugh Montague , 1873-1956 , 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton , Marshal of the Royal Air Force x Trenchard of Wolfeton , 1st Viscount RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force Western Europe Europe

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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1989.

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Papers relating to his RAF service, 1931-1961, principally comprising his flying log book, 1931-1954, including details of bombing missions, North West Europe, 1944-1945; unsigned typescript report recommending the rearming of No 232 Wing and No 252 Sqn with Mosquito XXVIs, [1945-1946]; photograph of portrait of MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, by Francis Beresford, signed by Beresford, 1955.

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1 volume, 1 photograph

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

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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

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  • Latin

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English

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

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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • English

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