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PERCIVAL, Edgar Wikner ([1898]-1984)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Percival

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

Title: PERCIVAL, Edgar Wikner ([1898]-1984)

Date(s): Created 1919-1920

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in [1898] in New South Wales, Australia; educated at Sydney Technical College and Sydney University; served in 7 Australian Light Horse and 60 and 11 Sqns, Royal Flying Corps and RAF, 1914-1918; served as Air Ministry approved test pilot on flying boats, seaplanes and land planes; founder, chairman, managing director and chief designer, Percival Aircraft Limited; designed Saro-Percival Mail Plane, 1930, Percival Gull, 1931-1932 and Percival Mew Gull, 1933; won many air races and trophies, both national and international, and set a number of aviation records; served in Reserve of Air Force Officers, 1929-1939; Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1939-1945; founder member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators; died in 1984.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

List of stations on the Tomsk, Sabaikal, Omsk and Chinese Eastern Lines compiled in connection with British Military Mission in Irkutsk, USSR, 1919, with annotations made by the Commanding Officer of the mission while retreating from the Bolsheviks, 1919-1920. Passed to Percival for use on a planned round-the-world flight.

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

RAF Museum, Hendon and Australian National Museum, Canberra also hold material relating to Percival.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air transport | Transport
Military missions | Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
Railway transport | Transport
Transport infrastructure

Personal names
Percival | Edgar Wikner | ? 1898-1984 | aviator

Corporate names

Places
Irkutsk | Irkutskkaya Oblast | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
Omsk | Omskaya Oblast | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
Sabaikal | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
Tomsk | Russian Federation | Eastern Europe
USSR | Eastern Europe