IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Goldsmith
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: GOLDSMITH, V Adm Sir (Malcolm) Lennon (1880-1955)
Date(s): Created 1914-1919, 1983
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1880; entered RN, 1894; commanded torpedo boat destroyer HMS LAERTES, 1913-1916; promoted to Cdr following action at Heligoland Bight, Aug 1914; commanded HMS LYDIARD, Jutland, 1916; served in Black Sea, 1919; Capt, 1919; King's Harbourmaster and Captain of Dockyard, Malta, 1926-1928; in command of HMS HAREBELL, as Captain of Fishery and Minesweeping Flotillas, 1929-1930; Naval ADC to the King, 1931; R Adm and retired list, 1931; V Adm, 1936; died in 1955.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopy of typescript copy of letters to his father, J P Goldsmith, 1914-1919, covering his service in the North Sea, 1914-1918, notably action at Heligoland Bight, Aug 1914, and the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, and in the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War, 1919, written in 1914-1919, with copy of covering letter from his daughter to the Centre, 1983.
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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Copies made by the Centre in 1983 from originals held by the family.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Liddle Collection, Leeds University, holds the original letters.
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996