GB 0099 KCLMA Mason - MASON, Air Cdre John Melbourne (fl 1917-1946)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Mason

Title

MASON, Air Cdre John Melbourne (fl 1917-1946)

Date(s)

  • Created 1917-1946 (Creation)

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approx 750 JPEG images totalling 1GB

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Biographical history

Served with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918; served in UK, 1918-1928; served with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930; served in UK, 1930-1943, and India, 1943-1946; Sqn Ldr, 1931; Wg Cdr, 1937; retired in [1946].

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Mason Created 1917-1946 Collection (fonds) approx 750 JPEG images totalling 1GB

Served with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918; served in UK, 1918-1928; served with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930; served in UK, 1930-1943, and India, 1943-1946; Sqn Ldr, 1931; Wg Cdr, 1937; retired in [1946].

Digital copies made from original volumes formerly deposited in the LHCMA, withdrawn by the family, 2015

Digital copies of flying log books, 1917-1946, notably covering his service with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918, and with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930, and including detailed accounts of bombing raids on France, 1917-1918.

Original order

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form and provision of two forms of identification to include one photographic.

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 and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

  Aug 1997 Armed forces Colonial forces Documents Europe France Information sources International conflicts International relations Iraq Log books Middle East Military organizations Organizations RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force Royal Naval Air Service State security War Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Wars (events)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Digital copies made from original volumes formerly deposited in the LHCMA, withdrawn by the family, 2015

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Digital copies of flying log books, 1917-1946, notably covering his service with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918, and with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930, and including detailed accounts of bombing raids on France, 1917-1918.

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Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form and provision of two forms of identification to include one photographic.

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

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Summary guide entry on-line 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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