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World War II, 1943 - 1945

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TERY 2

Scope and Contents

From the Fonds:

This small but interesting collection of copies of papers and photographs relates to the service of Charles Terry in the Royal Navy in the First World War and in the Army as a Major in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War. In 1918, Charles Terry had the remarkable prescience to photograph the German ships as they lay at anchor at Scapa Flow the day before they were scuttled and the four resulting pictures fit together to give a panoramic view of the entire captured German Fleet. The papers relating to Major Terry's Army service belong to his period as commanding officer of 7/11 Super Heavy Battery RA with fascinating detail about the disbandment of his unit and to the work he carried out at Combined Operations H.Q. as officer in charge of training of assault artillery. Amongst the papers were retained two War Office pamphlets on disbandment of units and on the use of self-propelled guns in support of a Beach Assault. The heavy gun mounted on a railway wagon and manned by Major Terry's unit was designed to be landed in France but, in fact, was never shipped across the Channel. Too much damage had been done to the French railway system to make its transportation feasible.

Dates

  • Creation: 1943 - 1945

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2004-08-10 16:21:33.030000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 336087