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- Created 1914-1920, 1932-1995 (Creation)
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1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
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Biographical history
Born 1903; educated at RN College, Osborne, Isle of Wight, and RN College, Dartmouth, Devon;Midshipman, 1921; served on HMS VALIANT, Devonport, 1921-1922; acting Sub Lt, 1923; Promotion Course, RN College, Greenwich, 1924; Sub Lt, 1924; HMS IROQUOIS, China Station, 1925-1926; Lt, 1925; Specialist Navigation Course, 1928; HMS ROSEMARY, FisheryProtection Flotilla, 1929-1930; HMS BIDEFORD, Persian Gulf, 1932; Navigating Officer, HMS ENTERPRISE, 4 Cruiser Sqn, East Indies, 1932-1934; Lt Cdr, 1933; Navigating Officer, HMS KEMPENFELT, Flotilla Leader, 2 Flotilla, Home Fleet, and Mediterranean Fleet,1934-1937; Navigating Officer, HMS NEWCASTLE, 2 Cruiser Sqn, Home Fleet, 1937-1939; participated in Operation FISH, the transfer of stocks of gold bullion and securities from the UK to Canada on board HMS REVENGE, Jul 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945;Cdr, 1939; Navigating Officer and Executive Officer, HMS REVENGE, Home Fleet, Force H, and Eastern Fleet, 1939-1944; commanded 5 Minesweeping Flotilla, HMS LARNE, HMS WELFARE and HMS FLY, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean, 1944-1946; commanded mine clearance operations for bombardment vessels, Operation DRAGOON, the Allied invasion of southern France, Aug 1944; served at HMS LOCHINVAR, Minesweeping Base, Port Edgar, Fife, 1946-1948; Commander of Dockyard and Assistant King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Portland, Dorset, 1948-1949; Commander of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HMDockyard, Gibraltar, 1949-1950; Superintendant of the Dockyard, HMNZS PHILOMEL, Auckland, New Zealand, 1952-1953; retired 1953; awarded OBE, 1954; died 1993.
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA Jenkins Created 1914-1920, 1932-1995 Collection (fonds) 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Born 1903; educated at RN College, Osborne, Isle of Wight, and RN College, Dartmouth, Devon;Midshipman, 1921; served on HMS VALIANT, Devonport, 1921-1922; acting Sub Lt, 1923; Promotion Course, RN College, Greenwich, 1924; Sub Lt, 1924; HMS IROQUOIS, China Station, 1925-1926; Lt, 1925; Specialist Navigation Course, 1928; HMS ROSEMARY, FisheryProtection Flotilla, 1929-1930; HMS BIDEFORD, Persian Gulf, 1932; Navigating Officer, HMS ENTERPRISE, 4 Cruiser Sqn, East Indies, 1932-1934; Lt Cdr, 1933; Navigating Officer, HMS KEMPENFELT, Flotilla Leader, 2 Flotilla, Home Fleet, and Mediterranean Fleet,1934-1937; Navigating Officer, HMS NEWCASTLE, 2 Cruiser Sqn, Home Fleet, 1937-1939; participated in Operation FISH, the transfer of stocks of gold bullion and securities from the UK to Canada on board HMS REVENGE, Jul 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945;Cdr, 1939; Navigating Officer and Executive Officer, HMS REVENGE, Home Fleet, Force H, and Eastern Fleet, 1939-1944; commanded 5 Minesweeping Flotilla, HMS LARNE, HMS WELFARE and HMS FLY, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean, 1944-1946; commanded mine clearance operations for bombardment vessels, Operation DRAGOON, the Allied invasion of southern France, Aug 1944; served at HMS LOCHINVAR, Minesweeping Base, Port Edgar, Fife, 1946-1948; Commander of Dockyard and Assistant King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Portland, Dorset, 1948-1949; Commander of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HMDockyard, Gibraltar, 1949-1950; Superintendant of the Dockyard, HMNZS PHILOMEL, Auckland, New Zealand, 1952-1953; retired 1953; awarded OBE, 1954; died 1993.
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1999.
Papers relating to Jenkins' early RN service, 1932-1941, including four editions of HMS ENTERPRISE magazine The 'Prise wail, 1932-1934, including accounts of service in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; thirteen uncaptioned photographs of aircraft carrier operations, Mediterranean Fleet [1936]; two punishment registers in French, taken from the French battleship PARIS, atPlymouth, Devon, when the ship was commandeered by the Royal Navy to prevent its use by the Vichy French or German forces, Jul 1940; edition of printed booklet German law and German lawlessness. An address by General Sikorski before the University of St Andrews (St Andrews University Press, St Andrews, Fife, 1941), signed and dedicated to Jenkins by the Polish Prime Minister in exile, Gen Wladyslaw Sikorski, 1 Jun 1941. Papers relating to Jenkins' command of 5 Minesweeping Flotilla, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean, 1944-1946, including printed chart of waters off the southern coast of France entitled 'Operation DRAGOON...Areas swept byFifth Minesweeping Flotilla and 2nd Div 31st ML (Motor Launch) Flotilla, 15th-21st Aug 1944'; typescript diary entitled '5th MSF (Minesweeping Flotilla) - Diary', 12 Jul-17 Sep 1944, containing account of the 5 Minesweeping Flotilla's role in Operation DRAGOON, the Allied invasion of southern France, Aug 1944; typescript copies of official reports by Jenkins on Operation MANNA,Minesweeping off the coast of Greece, 30 Oct 1944, and Operation SINUS, Minesweeping in the Gulf of Salonika, Nov 1945. Papers relating to a visit by Jenkins to the Royal Naval Armament Depot, Kauri Point, New Zealand, 1954, including album containing 41 photographs and two manuscript maps of the Depot, 1954; sixteen captioned photographs of the destruction of cordite on the beach atKauri Point, and HMNZS ENDEAVOUR and HMNZS STAWELL at anchor at Kauri Point, New Zealand, 1954. Manuscript copy of letter from Capt Richard Fortescue Phillimore, RN (an uncle of Jenkins, and later Adm Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore), commander of HMS INFLEXIBLE, 2 Battlecruiser Sqn, Grand Fleet, to his wife, 9 Dec 1914, containing a detailed account of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 Dec 1914; six postcards relating to the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, interned at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, 21 Jun 1919, including German battleship BAYERN, battlecruiser DERFFLINGER, and cruiser NUREMBURG, Jun-Jul 1919; edition of The GrandFleet: a wartime sketch book by John Coleridge (Medici Society, London, 1920).
The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.
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, and some French.
Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and in hard copy in the reading room.
Notes by Jenkins have been copied by the Imperial War Museum, London.
Nov 1999 France RN , Royal Navy x Royal Navy HMS Enterprise German Navy German Army Sikorski , Wladyslaw Eugeniusz , 1881-1943 , Polish General, statesman and Prime Minister Coleridge , John , fl 1920 , artist and author Seas International relations Literature Literary forms and genres Prose Nonfiction Diaries Transport Vehicles Ships Aircraft carriers State security Armed forces Military engineering Warfare Maritime warfare Information sources Documents Primary documents Humanitarian law Visual materials Occupied territories Photographs International conflicts War Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Organizations Military organizations Western Europe Europe Adriatic Sea Mediterranean Sea Persian Gulf Indian Ocean Kauri Point New Zealand Oceania Poland Eastern Europe Gulf of Salonika Greece Aegean Sea Asia and the Pacific Oceans
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Placed in the Centre by the family in 1999.
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Papers relating to Jenkins' early RN service, 1932-1941, including four editions of HMS ENTERPRISE magazine The 'Prise wail, 1932-1934, including accounts of service in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; thirteen uncaptioned photographs of aircraft carrier operations, Mediterranean Fleet [1936]; two punishment registers in French, taken from the French battleship PARIS, atPlymouth, Devon, when the ship was commandeered by the Royal Navy to prevent its use by the Vichy French or German forces, Jul 1940; edition of printed booklet German law and German lawlessness. An address by General Sikorski before the University of St Andrews (St Andrews University Press, St Andrews, Fife, 1941), signed and dedicated to Jenkins by the Polish Prime Minister in exile, Gen Wladyslaw Sikorski, 1 Jun 1941. Papers relating to Jenkins' command of 5 Minesweeping Flotilla, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean, 1944-1946, including printed chart of waters off the southern coast of France entitled 'Operation DRAGOON...Areas swept byFifth Minesweeping Flotilla and 2nd Div 31st ML (Motor Launch) Flotilla, 15th-21st Aug 1944'; typescript diary entitled '5th MSF (Minesweeping Flotilla) - Diary', 12 Jul-17 Sep 1944, containing account of the 5 Minesweeping Flotilla's role in Operation DRAGOON, the Allied invasion of southern France, Aug 1944; typescript copies of official reports by Jenkins on Operation MANNA,Minesweeping off the coast of Greece, 30 Oct 1944, and Operation SINUS, Minesweeping in the Gulf of Salonika, Nov 1945. Papers relating to a visit by Jenkins to the Royal Naval Armament Depot, Kauri Point, New Zealand, 1954, including album containing 41 photographs and two manuscript maps of the Depot, 1954; sixteen captioned photographs of the destruction of cordite on the beach atKauri Point, and HMNZS ENDEAVOUR and HMNZS STAWELL at anchor at Kauri Point, New Zealand, 1954. Manuscript copy of letter from Capt Richard Fortescue Phillimore, RN (an uncle of Jenkins, and later Adm Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore), commander of HMS INFLEXIBLE, 2 Battlecruiser Sqn, Grand Fleet, to his wife, 9 Dec 1914, containing a detailed account of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 Dec 1914; six postcards relating to the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, interned at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, 21 Jun 1919, including German battleship BAYERN, battlecruiser DERFFLINGER, and cruiser NUREMBURG, Jun-Jul 1919; edition of The GrandFleet: a wartime sketch book by John Coleridge (Medici Society, London, 1920).
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The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction
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.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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English, and some French.
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Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and in hard copy in the reading room.
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Notes by Jenkins have been copied by the Imperial War Museum, London.
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- Literature
- Literary forms and genres
- Literary forms and genres » Prose
- Transport
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- Vehicles » Ships
- State security
- State security » Armed forces
- Military engineering
- Military engineering » Warfare
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- Documents
- Documents » Primary documents
- Humanitarian law
- Visual materials
- Humanitarian law » Occupied territories
- Visual materials » Photographs
- International conflicts
- International conflicts » War
- Organizations
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