IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 HMP
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Hampshire, Commander Cyril Beaumont ([1875]-1963)
Date(s): [1890-1919]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2ft; 61cm
Name of creator(s): Hampshire | Cyril Beaumont | c 1875-1963 | Commander
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hampshire entered the Navy in 1888. He served from 1890 to 1892 in the Benbow and Immortalite, Mediterranean Station and from late 1892 in the Cleopatra, North America and West Indies Station. He became a lieutenant in 1896 and retired in 1910 as a commander, although he served again during the First World War. He was present at the Dardanelles landing and later commanded the ST GEORGE, base ship at Mudros.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Commander Cyril Beaumont Hampshire, including two logs, 1890 to 1894, but no papers survive for Hampshire's subsequent peacetime service. The loose papers and charts relate to the Aegean, 1915 to 1919.
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 Miss J.M. Hampshire in 1964.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jul 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26