GB 0099 KCLMA Tudor - TUDOR, Adm Sir Frederick (Charles Tudor) (1863-1946)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Tudor Created 1915-1916, 1976 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born in 1863; joined RN, 1875; HMS BRITANNIA, 1876-1877; served on Mediterranean, Australian and China Stations; Senior Staff Officer, HMS EXCELLENT, 1894-1896; Assistant to Director of Naval Depot, 1896-1898; commanded HMS PROMETHEUS, Channel Fleet, 1901-1902, and HMS CHALLENGER, Australian Station, 1904-1906; Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, 1906-1909; commanded HMS SUPERB, Home Fleet, 1909-1910; commanded HMS EXCELLENT, 1910-1912; Director of Naval Ordnance, 1912-1914; Third Sea Lord, Admiralty, 1914-1917; Commander-in-Chief, China Station, 1917-1919; V Adm, 1918; Adm, 1921; President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1920-1922; retired list, 1922; died in 1946.

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1976.

Papers relating to his service as Third Sea Lord, 1915-1916, principally comprising 'History of armoured cars, juggernauts, land battleships, tanks', a memorandum on the development of an armoured car force, 1914-1916, written [for Tudor and other Sea Lords] by Murray F Sueter, Sep 1916; 'Report on the design and construction of first land ship (tank)', written for Tudor by E H Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, Sep 1916. Biographical notes on Tudor, compiled for members of the family by his great nephew, A B T Davey, with covering letter, 1976.

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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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Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Decorations: KCB, KCMG
Oct 1996 International relations State security Armed forces Armoured forces War International conflicts Armoured cars Transport Vehicles Motor vehicles Tanks Organizations Military organizations Wars (events) World wars (events) World War One (1914-1918) D'Eyncourt , Sir , Eustace Gervais Tennyson , 1902-1971 , 1st Baronet , Director of Naval Construction Sueter , Murray Fraser , 1872-1960 , Rear Admiral British Army

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1976.

Papers relating to his service as Third Sea Lord, 1915-1916, principally comprising 'History of armoured cars, juggernauts, land battleships, tanks', a memorandum on the development of an armoured car force, 1914-1916, written [for Tudor and other Sea Lords] by Murray F Sueter, Sep 1916; 'Report on the design and construction of first land ship (tank)', written for Tudor by E H Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, Sep 1916. Biographical notes on Tudor, compiled for members of the family by his great nephew, A B T Davey, with covering letter, 1976.

1 file

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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English

Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Decorations: KCB, KCMG

Decorations: KCB, KCMG

• anglais