Description
Object description
A substantial collection of papers, mainly official in character, including daily and weekly reports and ms and ts drafts of memoranda and lectures relating to his appointment as Rear Admiral Minelaying at the Admiralty, with particular reference to his responsibility for co-ordinating counter-measures to the German magnetic mine (October 1939 - May 1940); contemporary signals, official reports, a personal narrative, a few other documents and various charts concerning his service as Flag Officer afloat off Dunkirk in May - June 1940 and the organisation of the evacuation of the BEF (May 1940 - April 1941); official reports from his command of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet, with his flag in HMS NORFOLK and later HMS DEVONSHIRE, covering the pursuit and sinking of the BISMARCK in the Atlantic (May 1941), the mining of the destroyer HMS ACHATES (July 1941), a Fleet Air Arm raid on German shipping in Norwegian waters (July 1941) and convoy escort to North Russia (August - September 1941); together with ms and ts drafts of two poems which he wrote on active service in the North Atlantic.
Content description
A substantial collection of papers, mainly official in character, including daily and weekly reports and ms and ts drafts of memoranda and lectures relating to his appointment as Rear Admiral Minelaying at the Admiralty, with particular reference to his responsibility for co-ordinating counter-measures to the German magnetic mine (October 1939 - May 1940); contemporary signals, official reports, a personal narrative, a few other documents and various charts concerning his service as Flag Officer afloat off Dunkirk in May - June 1940 and the organisation of the evacuation of the BEF (May 1940 - April 1941); official reports from his command of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet, with his flag in HMS NORFOLK and later HMS DEVONSHIRE, covering the pursuit and sinking of the BISMARCK in the Atlantic (May 1941), the mining of the destroyer HMS ACHATES (July 1941), a Fleet Air Arm raid on German shipping in Norwegian waters (July 1941) and convoy escort to North Russia (August - September 1941); together with ms and ts drafts of two poems which he wrote on active service in the North Atlantic.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1988-05