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

DACRE, Air Cdre George Bentley (fl 1911-1938)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Dacre

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

Title: DACRE, Air Cdre George Bentley (fl 1911-1938)

Date(s): Created 1911-1916, [1917], 1985

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joined Royal Naval Air Service, [1914]; served in UK, 1914-1915, Gallipoli, 1915, Bulgaria, 1915, and Egypt, 1916; imprisoned in Turkey; Group Capt, RAF, 1935; Air Attaché, Rome, 1935; Air Cdre, No 24 (Training) Group, RAF Station Halton, 1938.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of diaries, 1911-1916, covering his flying training, 1911-1914, his service with the Royal Naval Air Service in the UK, [1914]-1915, Gallipoli, 1915, Bulgaria, 1915, and Egypt, 1916. Copy of account of his imprisonment in Turkey, Mar-Jul 1917, written in [1917], with newspaper cutting describing conditions in prisons in Constantinople, [1917]. 'The story of the men and aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm', illustrated pamphlet prepared for the Directorate of Navy Recruiting by the Central Office of Information, dated 1985.

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 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Copy of prison diary held in Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE, DSO

Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
War | International conflicts
War prisoners | War victims | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal Naval Air Service

Places
Bulgaria | Eastern Europe
Egypt | North Africa
Gallipoli | Turkey | Middle East
Istanbul | Marmara | Turkey | Middle East
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Constantinople x Istanbul