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The Papers of Mr Ronald Thompson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THOM
Scope and Contents

Photograph albums and personal and career documentation.

Dates: 1912 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Oswald Tuck

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUCK
Scope and Contents

Papers mainly comprising diaries, letters to his family, photographs, printed books, pamphlets and lectures notes. The collection also includes a medal awarded to Tuck whilst at the Greenwich Hospital School, 1891.

Dates: 1868 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain files containing sensitive personal information about living people have been closed for 80 years. All closures are noted in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HLNN
Scope and Contents

The collection of Hill-Norton's papers held at Churchill Archives Centre relate to the later part of Hill-Norton's career. It includes personal and official correspondence, letters to the press, speeches and articles covering defence and military issues and controversial political issues, such as the repeal of section 28 and the ordination of women.

Dates: 1968 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Clarence Howard-Johnston

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HWJN
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters by Howard-Johnston describing his wartime service, including his work as Director of the Anti-U-Boat Division, and as captain of HMS Bermuda, with the British Pacific Fleet (1947). Subjects include: Cabinet Anti-U-Boat meetings; difficulties with the lack of understanding at the Admiralty of anti-U-Boat operations; German success in evading Asdic; service with Admiral Sir Denis Boyd [Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet].

Dates: 1947-02 - 1980-02
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Edmund Nicholas Poland

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PLND
Scope and Contents

Memoirs of HMS Vernon, 1872-1986
HMS Vernon, at Portsmouth, was a torpedo training ship, 1872-6, and the Royal Navy's Torpedo Branch, 1876-1986

Dates: 1986 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral John Adams

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ADMS
Scope and Contents

The collection primarily consists of papers relating to Adams' involvement with submarine warfare and includes papers on anti-submarine warfare and the Admiralty underwater weapons establishment.

Dates: 1948 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. One file within the collection is closed to researchers.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Malcolm Walter St Leger Searle

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SRLE
Scope and Contents

The Searle papers comprise the reminiscences of Admiral Searle of his service as a gunnery expert before and during the Second World War.

Dates: 1917 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers at Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Miers

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MIER
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising lectures, official reports and correspondence, mainly about Second World War naval operations in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, 1941-5, and the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-9.

Dates: 1938 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Robert Ryder

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDER
Scope and Contents

Signals from the raid on St Nazaire

Dates: 1942
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGGF
Scope and Contents Papers comprising correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and photographs. The journals and diaries in particular, taken with the correspondence and papers which form the remainder of the archive, many of them from members of the Royal family, constitute an invaluable source for naval historians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and for social historians of the period 1900-1936. The record begins with the prestige of the Royal Navy at its zenith and the British Empire at its greatest...
Dates: 1876 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir George Binney

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BINN
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising correspondence, official reports and press cuttings.
With correspondence and notes of Ralph Barker, author of 'The Blockade Busters', 1974-80.
Mainly in English, with some items in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and French.

Dates: 1939 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Stephen Roskill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, broadcasts, preparatory notes, copies of original papers used in research, card indexes, subject files for the official naval history of the Second World War, press cuttings, microfilms and photographs.

Dates: 1650 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of the 1st Viscount Hood of Catherington and of Rear Admiral Horace Hood

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOOD
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a small group of papers relating to the first Viscount Hood (1724-1816), a larger, mostly personal, group of the papers of Admiral Horace Hood (1870-1916) and the Pocock sketches.

Dates: 1782 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral John Harper

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/JEHR
Scope and Contents

Some papers relate to the compilation of the official record of the Battle of Jutland
With a list of the papers compiled by David Erskine, 1980.
Also includes biographical material.

Dates: 1875 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HHLT
Scope and Contents

"Before I forget", annotated draft of Hughes-Hallett's memoir on Combined Operations, 1941-5, including his memoir of the Dieppe Raid and the planning for D-Day (Operation Overlord); with a letter to him from Winston Churchill MP (Prime Minister), 19 September 1954

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Vice Admiral Sir (John) Michael Villiers

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/VILL
Scope and Contents Naval correspondence, reports and photograph albums relating to the naval career of Villiers and his father, Rear Admiral Edward Cecil Villiers. (Edward Cecil Villiers, 1866-1939, served in Naval Intelligence Depart 1903-1905; he was Captain of the RN College, Greenwich, 1906-1908; of Actæon Torpedo School Ship, 1912; Rear-Admiral retired, 1917; after retirement continued to serve as Rear-Admiral in HMS Actæon until end of the war; commanded the flotillas defending the estuary of the Thames...
Dates: 1881 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEBY
Scope and Contents

Papers on Naval Engineering and intelligence issues, 1932-92; includes some papers of R.F. Le Bailly and W.F.G Le Bailly, 1885-1914

Dates: 1885 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: With the exception of a few files which are still closed (details are available in the catalogue), the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The personal papers of Admiral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARD
Scope and Contents

The collection contains papers and correspondence, mainly relating to the period of the First World War, and especially to Carden's involvement in the naval campaign at the Dardanelles.

Dates: 1869 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Fisher, William Wordsworth, Sir, 1875 - 1937 (Knight, Admiral) 2
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Adams, John Harold, 1918 - 2008 (Rear-Admiral) 1
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Alexander, Albert Victor, 1885 - 1965 (1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician) 1
Ashmore, Leslie Haliburton, 1893 - 1974 (Vice-Admiral) 1
Backhouse, Roger Roland Charles, Sir, 1878 - 1939 (Knight, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Bailly, Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le, Sir, 1915 (Knight and Vice-Admiral) 1
Barker, Nicholas John, 1933 - 1997 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Barker, Ralph, 1917 (writer) 1
Beamish, Henry Hamilton, 1829 - 1901 (Rear Admiral) 1
Beamish, Tufton Percy Hamilton, 1874 - 1951 (Rear Admiral) 1
Beamish, Tufton Victor Hamilton, 1917 - 1989 (Baron Chelwood of Lewes) 1
Binney, Frederick George, Sir, 1900 - 1972 (Knight, explorer) 1
Broome, John Egerton, 1901 - 1985 (Captain) 1
Buist, Colin, 1896 - 1981 (Commander Royal Navy) 1
Carden, Sackville Hamilton, Sir, 1857 - 1930 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Carter, Octavius Bonham (1873-1901, Lieutenant Royal Navy) 1
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) 1
Clarke, Arthur Wellesley, 1898 - 1985 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Creswell, John, 1973 (Captain) 1
Crooke, Henry Ralph, Sir, 1875 - 1952 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Cunningham, Andrew Brown, 1883 - 1963 (1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Daniel, Charles Saumarez, Sir, 1894 - 1981 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Davis, William Wellclose, Sir, 1901 - 1987 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Dickens, Peter, 1917 - 1987 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Ditcham, Anthony Greville Fox, 1922-2024 (sailor) 1
Downing, D Calybut, fl1906 - 1908 (midshipman) 1
Drax, Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett, Sir (Ernle-Erle-, 1880-1967, Knight, Admiral) 1
Dreyer, Frederic Charles, Sir, 1878 - 1956 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Edward, VIII, 1894 - 1972 (King of Great Britain and Ireland, afterwards Duke of Windsor) 1
Edwards, Ralph Alan Bevan, Sir, 1901 - 1963 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Ellis, Robert Meyrick, 1901 - 1981 (Captain) 1
Faussett, Bryan Godfrey Godfrey, Sir (1863-1945, Knight, Captain) 1
Fell, Walter, 1857 - 1934 (doctor) 1
Fell, William Richmond, 1897 - 1981 (Captain) 1
Fisher, John Arbuthnot, 1841 - 1920 (1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
French, Godfrey Alexander, 1900 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Godfrey, John Henry, 1888 - 1971 (Admiral) 1
Gretton, Peter William, Sir, 1912 - 1992 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
Hall, William Reginald, Sir, 1870 - 1943 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Hallett, John Hughes (1901-1972, Vice-Admiral) 1
Harper, Geoffrey Coleridge, 1894 - 1962 (Captain) 1
Harper, John Ernest Troyte, 1874 - 1949 (Vice-Admiral) 1
Henderson, Andrew Richmond, 1891 - 1966 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Hood, Horace Lambert Alexander, 1870 - 1916 (Rear Admiral) 1
Hood, Samuel, 1724 - 1816 (1st Viscount Hood of Catherington) 1
Jellicoe, John Rushworth, 1859 - 1935 (1st Earl Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Johnston, Clarence Dinsmore Howard (1903-1996, Rear-Admiral) 1
Marsden, Charles, 1894 (Captain) 1
McLachlan, Donald Harvey, 1908 - 1971 (author and intelligence officer) 1
Mellis, David B N (b c 1900, Captain Royal Navy) 1
Miers, Anthony Cecil Capel, Sir, 1906 - 1985 (Knight, Rear-Admiral) 1
Moore, John Evelyn, 1921 (Captain) 1
Moulton, James Louis, 1906 - 1993 (Major-General) 1
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 1
Northcote, Henry Stafford, 1846 - 1911 (1st Baron, Politician) 1
Norton, Peter John Hill (1915-2004, Baron Hill-Norton, Admiral of the Fleet and Chief of Defence Staff) 1
Onslow Family, officers of the Royal Navy 1
Onslow, Richard Francis John, 1896 - 1942 (Captain) 1
Onslow, Richard George, Sir, 1904 - 1975 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Onslow, Richard, Sir, 1741 - 1817 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Pedder, Arthur Reid, Sir, 1904 - 1995 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
Pocock, Nicholas, 1740 - 1821 (painter) 1
Poland, Edmund Nicholas, 1917 (Rear-Admiral) 1
Pound, Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers, Sir, 1877 - 1943 (Knight, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Power, Manley Laurence, Sir, 1904 - 1981 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Ramsay, Bertram Home, Sir, 1883 - 1945 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Robson, William Geoffrey Arthur, Sir, 1902 - 1989 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
Rotherham, Geoffrey Alexander, 1906 - 2002 (Captain RN) 1
Royal Air Force 1
Ryder, Robert Edward Dudley, 1908 - 1986 (Captain) 1
Sausmarez, Ronald Philip Stanley (de, d 1973, Lieutenant-Commander) 1
Scott, William David, Sir, 1921 - 2006 (Knight, Rear Admiral) 1
Searle, Malcolm Walter St Leger, 1900 - 1994 (Rear-Admiral) 1
Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, 1859 - 1942 (2nd Earl of Selborne) 1
Sime, Stanley J, fl1928 - 1945 (Petty Officer) 1
Somerville, James Fownes, Sir, 1882 - 1949 (Knight, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Sturdee, Frederick Charles Doveton, Sir, 1859 - 1925 (1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Thompson, Ronald David, 1912 - 2009 1
Tuck, Oswald, 1876 - 1950 (Instructor-Captain) 1
Turner, Arthur Francis, Sir, 1912 - 1991 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Villiers, Edward Cecil, 1866 - 1939 (Rear Admiral) 1
Villiers, John Michael, Sir, 1907 - 1990 (Knight, Vice Admiral) 1
Wemyss, Rosslyn Erskine, 1864 - 1933 (1st Baron Wester Wemyss, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Williamson, Hugh Alexander, 1885 - 1979 (Group Captain) 1
Willis, Algernon Usborne, Sir, 1889 - 1976 (Knight, admiral) 1
Wincott, Leonard, fl1931 (naval mutineer) 1
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