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

GRAY, Gp Capt Kenneth (d 1988)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Gray

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

Title: GRAY, Gp Capt Kenneth (d 1988)

Date(s): Created 1931-1961

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume and 1 photograph

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Served in World War Two with No 4 Training Command; attached to 98 Gp HQ, Egginton Hall, Derbyshire, 1943-1944; took part in bombing missions over North West Europe with 320 Sqn, 1944-1945 and 98 Sqn, 1944-1945; Officer Commanding 608 Sqn, RAF Downham Market and 142 Sqn, RAF Gransden Lodge, 1945; Officer Commanding 252 Sqn, RAF Araxos and 13 Sqn, RAFHassani, Greece, 1945-1946; Officer Commanding and RAF/USAF Senior Liaison Officer, RAF Sealand, 1951-1954; Officer Commanding No 2 Maritime HQ Unit, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Edinburgh, 1961; died in 1988.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his RAF service, 1931-1961, principally comprising his flying log book, 1931-1954, including details of bombing missions, North West Europe, 1944-1945; unsigned typescript report recommending the rearming of No 232 Wing and No 252 Sqn with Mosquito XXVIs, [1945-1946]; photograph of portrait of MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, by Francis Beresford, signed by Beresford, 1955.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 volume, 1 photograph

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

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1989.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Log books | Documents | Information sources
Military aircraft | Aircraft | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Beresford | Francis | fl 1955 | artist
Trenchard | Hugh Montague | 1873-1956 | 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton | Marshal of the Royal Air Force x Trenchard of Wolfeton | 1st Viscount

Corporate names
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force

Places
Western Europe | Europe