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- Created 1939-1946 (Creation)
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1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
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Biographical history
Served in Royal Navy [1931]-1954; Sub Lt, 1932; service on HMS DECOY, 1 Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, 1933; Lt, 1933; served on HMS RENOWN, Battle Cruiser Sqn, Home Fleet, 1934-1935; HMS PEMBROKE, Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945, in North Sea and Mediterranean on HMS JERVIS, 1940-1941; with CombinedOperations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1944; in Pacific, Japan and Australia, 1945-1946; HMS APPLEDORE, 1946; Cdr, 1947; Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty, 1947-1948; served on HMS HORNET, 1952-1953; retired 1954..
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA Mulleneux Created 1939-1946 Collection (fonds) 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Served in Royal Navy [1931]-1954; Sub Lt, 1932; service on HMS DECOY, 1 Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, 1933; Lt, 1933; served on HMS RENOWN, Battle Cruiser Sqn, Home Fleet, 1934-1935; HMS PEMBROKE, Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945, in North Sea and Mediterranean on HMS JERVIS, 1940-1941; with CombinedOperations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1944; in Pacific, Japan and Australia, 1945-1946; HMS APPLEDORE, 1946; Cdr, 1947; Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty, 1947-1948; served on HMS HORNET, 1952-1953; retired 1954..
Presented to the Centre by Mulleneux in 1981.
Copies of detailed narrative diaries and transcripts of Naval signal messages on RN operations, 1939-1945, including service at RN Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1939, on HMS JERVIS in the North Sea, 1940, with the Mediterranean Fleet, 1940-1941, with Combined Operations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1942-1944, and the British Pacific Fleet, 1945-1946. Also, typescript copies of operational orders for Operation NEPTUNE, Normandy, 1944.
5 files
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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma.top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
The original of the diary dated 1940-1941 is held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Sep 1998 Diaries State security Armed forces Operation Neptune (1944) Warfare Amphibious warfare Higher science education Military education Transport Vehicles Ships Information sources Documents Primary documents International conflicts War Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Military engineering Military operations Operation Overlord (1944) Organizations Military organizations Communication process Group communication Military communications Nonfiction Prose Literary forms and genres Literature International relations HMS Jervis RN , Royal Navy x Royal Navy London England UK Western Europe Europe Normandy France Chatham Kent Dieppe
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Presented to the Centre by Mulleneux in 1981.
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Copies of detailed narrative diaries and transcripts of Naval signal messages on RN operations, 1939-1945, including service at RN Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1939, on HMS JERVIS in the North Sea, 1940, with the Mediterranean Fleet, 1940-1941, with Combined Operations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1942-1944, and the British Pacific Fleet, 1945-1946. Also, typescript copies of operational orders for Operation NEPTUNE, Normandy, 1944.
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5 files
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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
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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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- State security
- State security » Armed forces
- Military engineering » Warfare
- Higher science education
- Higher science education » Military education
- Transport
- Vehicles
- Vehicles » Ships
- Information sources
- Documents
- Documents » Primary documents
- International conflicts
- International conflicts » War
- Military engineering
- Military engineering » Military operations
- Organizations
- Communication process
- Communication process » Group communication
- Literary forms and genres » Prose
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- International relations
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- English