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3 letters to Hurd

Scope and Contents Letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes to Bower on subjects including: concerns expressed by Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty] about the lack of co-operation between the different Air Forces, Churchill's view on the Admiralty's use of aircraft and a memorandum on the subject by Bower; inaccurate broadcasts; Keyes's attempts to advise Churchill on getting what the Navy required; keeping the Fleet Air Arm free of interference from the RAF. Also includes a...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from Field Marshal Sir John French, Miss Ella S Robinson, E M Jackson, Admiral Sir Gerard Noel, Page Robertson, Admiral Tate, Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, John George Waller, Field Marshal Lord Methuen, Reverend St Aidan Baylee, Admiral John de Robeck, Roger Keyes, Major Godfrey, Francis Gowers, Rachel Penrose, Winston Churchill, Captain Bromley, Prince Louis Battenberg, Arthur Balfour, Captain Kelly. Subjects include congratulations on initial success at...

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This collection consists of De Robeck's naval, official and personal papers. The naval and official papers include Midshipman's Logs, correspondence and Fleet orders. The personal papers include correspondence and diaries.

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The papers chiefly consist of letters from Churchill to Owen while Owen was working as naval historical adviser to Churchill. All letters are typed, one has an extra hand-written paragraph. There are also a number of hand-written letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes.

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Many of the papers relate to the Invergordon Mutiny and Tomkinson's subsequent treatment by the Admiralty. The British attacks on Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918 also feature in some of the documents. Tomkinson left a large number of photographs which illustrate his naval career and his family life.

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4 carbon typed letters.