GB 0099 KCLMA Wretham - WRETHAM, Kenneth Edward (b 1925)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Wretham 1943-1945 Collection (fonds) 1 file Wretham , Kenneth Edward , b 1925 , telegraph operator
Born 1925, trained as a telegraph operator, HMS ROYAL ARTHUR, 1943; escort carrier HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945.

Kenneth Wretham loaned the items for copying in 2003

Copies of official photographs of HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945, including details of anti-aircraft guns; aircraft on board (some crashed onto deck); aircraft being unloaded by crane; Suez Canal; wardroom and ratings messdeck, Christmas 1944; boxing and hockey on deck. Also copy of a certificate of service for 1943-1946; wireless history sheet, 1943-1945.

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.

Originals retained by Kenneth Wretham

The Centre holds the papers of Peter Lavender that contain telegrams transmitted from, and received by, HMS RAJAH, 1944.

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 project. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000. May 2003 Air transport Armed forces Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) HMS Rajah International conflicts International relations Military organizations Naval aviation Organizations RN , Royal Navy x Royal Navy State security Transport War World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wretham , Kenneth Edward , b 1925 , telegraph operator Wars (events)

Kenneth Wretham loaned the items for copying in 2003

Copies of official photographs of HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945, including details of anti-aircraft guns; aircraft on board (some crashed onto deck); aircraft being unloaded by crane; Suez Canal; wardroom and ratings messdeck, Christmas 1944; boxing and hockey on deck. Also copy of a certificate of service for 1943-1946; wireless history sheet, 1943-1945.

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

The Centre holds the papers of Peter Lavender that contain telegrams transmitted from, and received by, HMS RAJAH, 1944.

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.

National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

• anglais