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Description: | Extensive collection of records of his naval career, 1881 - 1923, and of his appointment as Governor General of New South Wales, 1923 - 1930, most notably including the typescript drafts of his published autobiography THE SEA IS STRONG (Harrap, 1961); diaries covering his service as a midshipman in the Mediterranean Fleet ironclad HMS ALEXANDRA including operations against Arabi Pasha in Egypt (1882), as the executive officer of the Channel Squadron battleship HMS MAJESTIC (1900 - 1901), as Captain of the Home Fleet battleship HMS COLOSSUS (1911 - 1912) and as Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of the Curragh incident (March - April 1914); official documents, letters, papers and printed items relating to his command, as a Rear Admiral, of the 10th Cruiser Squadron in Northern waters in the enforcement of the blockade against Germany (August 1914 - March 1916); a diary and a few related documents concerning his Presidency of the Inter-Allied Commission for the Disposal of Enemy Vessels (1921 - 1923); and extensive personal correspondence including letters from Admirals of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe (1910 - 1927) and Sir Charles Madden (1914 - 1917), Admirals Sir Lewis Beaumont (1911) and Sir Montague Browning (1914 - 1924) and Rear Admiral E R Pears (1914).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1998-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | de Chair, Dudley Rawson Stratford (KCB KCMG MVO) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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