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TIPPEN, Assistant Paymaster Lewis Roland (1890-1916)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Tippen

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

Title: TIPPEN, Assistant Paymaster Lewis Roland (1890-1916)

Date(s): 1909

Level of description: collection level

Extent: 1 volume or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Tippen | Lewis Roland | 1890-1916 | Assistant Paymaster

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born Upton Park, London, 1890; joined HMS KENT as clerk, 1909; Assistant Paymaster, 1911; joined HMS VENUS, 1911; killed in action on board HMS INVINCIBLE, Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photograph album relating to service of Assistant Paymaster Lewis Roland Tippen aboard armoured cruiser HMS KENT, China Station, 1909, including: views of street scenes, people, buildings, harbours, village scenes and damage after a typhoon, Hong Kong; views of various towns including Port Arthur, Australia, Port Stanley, Australia, Nagasaki, Japan, Santiago de Chile, Chile, Port Said, Egypt, Weihawei City, China; views of Panama including Cathedral plaza, local villages, Chrisobal, and construction of the Panama Canal; the officers of HMS NIOBE; and views of the HMS KENT including in dry dock, the starboard battery on coaling day, the rudder and port propeller and a hand tinted photograph of the ship.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, April 2001

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects

Personal names
Tippen | Lewis Roland | 1890-1916 | Assistant Paymaster

Corporate names
HMS Kent
HMS Niobe
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Hong Kong | East Asia
Nagasaki | Japan | East Asia
Panama | Central America
Port Arthur | Australia | Oceania
Port Said | Urban | Egypt | North Africa
Port Stanley | Australia | Oceania
Santiago | Chile | South America
Weihai | Shandong | China | East Asia