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Letters and papers.

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Correspondence on Pound's fitness and health.

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Items removed from ROSK 5/125 and opened in 2002.

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Pound's own papers were destroyed (by burning), shortly after World War Two, by his fellow admirals Cunningham and Geoffrey Blake.

Scope and Contents Audio recording of Allen's account including observations on WSC and various encounters and discussions with WSC: meeting WSC; terms of employment, meetings at Hyde Park Gate; Chartwell and WSC’s hospitality and preferences for champagne and port or brandy, the cinema, WSC’s preferred walk after lunch to see the carp, swimming lake, black swans, butterfly house and tropical fish; detailed account of the organisation, process and methods of working on WSC’s memoirs including the roles of...

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

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Notes on the Battle of Matapan, the letters between Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and Admiral Andrew Cunningham and Admiral Henderson's booklet on HMS Bonaventure.

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Notes on Force K, the arrival of U-boats and the letters between Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and Admiral Andrew Cunningham.

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Notes on Malta, Greece and the letters between Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and Admiral Andrew Cunningham.

Scope and Contents Autobiographical account by George Allen written for his family covering his life and naval career, highlighting key events and turning points and analysing his response to them. Also includes details of people, colleagues and family members. Subjects, issues and people covered include: childhood and education; his mother, Beatrice Allen (née Wilkinson, known as Betty) and her circumstances and career; joining the Royal Navy aged 12, naval traditions, reforms to the navy by [Sir...