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COOTE, Wg Cdr Maxwell Henry (1893-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Coote

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: COOTE, Wg Cdr Maxwell Henry (1893-1981)

Date(s): 1921, 1981

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Coote | Maxwell Henry | 1893-1981 | Wing Commander

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1893; educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Field Artillery, 1914; wounded at Gallipoli, 1915; transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1916; posted to No 56 Sqn, 1917; served in France with BEF, 1917; joined No 61 Sqn and participated in air defence of London, 1918; Flight Cdr, No 37 Sqn, 1918; posted to Middle East, 1920; temporary ADC to Sir Winston Churchill, 1921; ADC to Governor General of Australia, 1924-1926; joined and later commanded No 19 Sqn, 1927; retired in 1928; recalled in 1939 and served World War Two in North Africa, Middle East and Italy; Sqn Ldr, 1943; retired, 1946; died in 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of diary covering his service as ADC to Winston Churchill at the Cairo Peace Conference and including details of meetings with Col Thomas Edward Lawrence (later known as Thomas Edward Shaw), Mar 1921; photocopy of photograph of Coote, 1917; brief account of his life and career, 1893-1946, written by his godson, Air Cdre B H Newton in 1981.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

RAF Museum, London

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

RAF Museum, London, also holds flying log books and photographs.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
Photographs | Visual materials
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Churchill | Sir | Winston Leonard Spencer | 1874-1965 | Knight | statesman
Coote | Maxwell Henry | 1893-1981 | Wing Commander
Newton | Barry Hamilton | b 1932 | Air Vice Marshal
Shaw | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Aircraftman | Lieutenant Colonel x Lawrence of Arabia x Lawrence | Thomas Edward

Corporate names
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force

Places
Cairo | Urban | Egypt | North Africa