Private Papers of Vice Admiral E G N Rushbrooke CBE DSC

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Content description

Six files of papers relating to his naval service, 1911 - 1968, and comprising: certificates and decorations (1911 - 1946); a lecture on the Harwich Force, 1914 - 1918, given by Rushbrooke at the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich (June 1931); naval messages and telegrams (1941 - 1945), a short story entitled 'Return to UK' (November 1941), notes on naval operations in the South Atlantic and Western Mediterranean (1941 - 1942) and other Second World War items; correspondence with the Admiralty relating to his dormant appointment as Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber (1951 - 1953); correspondence with Donald McLachlan, Humphrey Quill and Lamplough relating to the publication of McClachlan's history of the DN1 (1966 - 1968); and various Second World War press cuttings (1941 - 1945).

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Cataloguer RWAS

Object details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Pre-1914 (content), First World War (content), Interwar (content), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Pre-1914 (association), First World War (association), Interwar (association), Second World War (association), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: Rushbrooke, Edmund Gerard Noel
Dimensions: whole: 1 file
Catalogue number: Documents.22453

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Rushbrooke, Edmund Gerard Noel
Rushbrooke, Edmund Gerard Noel
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