IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 PHI/301-307
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Hornby, Windham Mark Phipps, Commander, (b 1896)
Date(s): [1909-1914]
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1ft; 30cm
Name of creator(s): Hornby | Windham Mark Phipps | b 1896 | Commander RN
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Son of Admiral R.S. Phipps Hornby (q.v.), W.M. Phipps Hornby entered the Navy in 1909. After his time at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth and in the training ship Cumberland, he was appointed midshipman in 1914 in the Hampshire, moving to the Warspite in 1915. He was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1916, joined the Ramillies in 1917, was promoted to lieutenant in 1918, to lieutenant-commander in 1925 and retired in 1932
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Windham Mark Phipps Hornby. Some of them relate to his cadet days, and are mostly printed magazines and programmes; there are also two gunnery notebooks, 1914, and a report on the organization of the Ramillies. The collection contains some items relating to other members of the family.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were presented by Commander Phipps Hornby in 1955 and 1958.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jul 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-11-12