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Description: | A large collection of correspondence, reports and papers, mostly official in nature, assembled by Talbot as Director of Anti-Submarine Warfare (1939 - 1940) relating to statistics of U-Boat sinkings since the outbreak of the war, and convoy protection, until he was dismissed by Churchill in late 1940. Together with: papers relating to his service as Naval Commander, Force 'S', as part of Operation Neptune, with reports and narratives giving details of the assault on the Normandy coast (July - August 1945); papers, pamphlets, postcards and Christmas cards (1904 - 1920) while serving in HMS CORNWALL (1909), HMS GLASGOW, HM MONITOR No 23, including comments about the Battle of Jutland (June 1916), and HMS RESOLUTION (1920); and two copies of a ts report of the Talbot Committee on Naval Life Saving (18pp, plus 15 appendices, April 1946).
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Force S Royal Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Talbot, Arthur George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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