Naval personnel
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Admiralty Official Correspondence, 1901-01 - 1929
Correspondence mostly relating to AHP's "official" work for, and professional relationship with, the Admiralty before and during the First World War. This series and the file titles were created by Anthony Pollen in the course of research into AHP's biography and naval history.
Biographical material collected by Donald McLachlan relating to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound
Pound's own papers were destroyed (by burning), shortly after World War Two, by his fellow admirals Cunningham and Geoffrey Blake.
Correspondence with Ann Gurney regarding Frederick Ogilvy, 1982-02-01 - 1992-01-30
Letters between Anthony Pollen and Ann Gurney, Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, about Commander Frederick Ogilvy (her father), his naval career and relationship with Sir John Fisher, and the Ogilvy family papers. Anthony Pollen deemed Ogilvy to be 'AHP's keenest, ablest, and most faithfull [sic] supporter'. Including photocopies of photographs and transcriptions of letters in Ann Gurney's possession relating to her father and family history.
Correspondence with Correlli Barnett, 1992-06 - 1992-07
About his memoir and Correlli Barnett's book "Engage the Enemy More Closely" (1991).
Diary, 1942-01 - 1942-07
With photographs, ca. 1923 and ca. 1942 (2).
George Ramsay, 12th Earl of Dalhousie: Naval Notebooks, South America Station
Notebooks describing actions during the war between Brazil and Paraguay, relations with South American peoples, Portugal, Brazil, France, and Spain; Ramsay's visit to Falkland Islands; and his views on politics, the Navy, and world events. The first volume covers 8 June 1866-3 May 1868; the second 4 May 1868-31 May 1869.
Memoir, 1929-39, 1992
Mainly concerns his school career, 1936-9, and training as a naval cadet, 1939.
Midshipman's log book, 1952 - 1954
Including service in HMS Implacable, 1952-3; HMS Defiance, 1953; and HMS Knaresborough Castle, 1953-4.
With watercolour views of Gibraltar, HMS Implacable and Brixham harbour. Also, photographs and cartoons.
Midshipman's Logs of D Calybut Downing
Naval logs and photographs
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1922-08 - 1944-11
"Naval interlude", memoirs of a RNVR midshipman, 1918/9, including photographs of various naval vessels Adam served on
An account of Adam's early life and education, and particularly his service during 1918/9 on HMS "Victory VI", "Excellent", "P20", "Vehement", "Sandfly" and "Venturous", including an account of the surrender of the German Fleet, November 1918, and his demobilisation, January 1919. The memoir ends after his arrival at Queens' College, Cambridge.
"Naval mutineer", Memoirs
Memoir of the "Invergordon mutiny" in September 1931 when the British Atlantic Fleet, anchored at Invergordon in the Cromerty Firth in Scotland, mutinied in the face of a pay cut
Notes and correspondence on Admiral Sir James Somerville and the Eastern Fleet, 1977 - 1990
Papers about HMS Glorious, 1938 - 1998
The collection comprises a wide variety of material from a number of different sources which have been deemed too small to be considered individual collections in their own right and have been grouped together under the heading "miscellaneous". Subjects covered include First and Second World Wars, the Falklands Campaign, and recollections of Sir Winston Churchill.
Papers concerning the "Amethyst Incident" [or "Yangtze Incident"] and papers of Rear Admiral Sir David Scott
Papers of Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis
Includes material relating to Willis' naval career, including material relating to World War Two
Papers of Admiral Sir Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards
Diaries and other papers
Papers of Rear Admiral Henry Hamilton Beamish, Rear Admiral Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish, Lord Chelwood of Lewes (Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish) and some earlier family material
Photographs and ephemera from international conferences, 1920 - 1951
Private Official, 1905 - 1927
"Important informal correspondence with First Lords and Admiralty holding High Office."
Files include annotated draft typescript letters by AHP. This series and the file titles were created by Anthony Pollen in the course of research into AHP's biography and naval history.
Public: Admiralty, 1906 - 1915
Reminiscences of Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton
Unpublished memoirs of Admiral Gretton, based on his occasional diaries, photo albums, naval papers and family histories, and particularly concentrating on the earlier and later years of Gretton's career.
Royal Navy and Weapons Development, 1935 - 1976
Papers comprising of articles, lectures, correspondence, a diary, research notes, press cuttings, photographs and microfilm.
Sir Arthur Pedder's Memoirs of World War II
The Autobiography of Captain Hank Rotherham
This autobiography is typed with some handwritten annotations. Rotherham deals with his early years in the opening pages and briefly summarises his life after leaving the navy in the last pages. The core of his autobiography is about his life in the British Royal Navy.