MASON, Air Cdre John Melbourne (fl 1917-1946)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0099 KCLMA Mason |
Held at | : Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma › |
Full title | : MASON, Air Cdre John Melbourne (fl 1917-1946) |
Date(s) | : Created 1917-1946 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : approx 750 JPEG images totalling 1GB |
Name of creator(s) | : |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Served with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918; served in UK, 1918-1928; served with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930; served in UK, 1930-1943, and India, 1943-1946; Sqn Ldr, 1931; Wg Cdr, 1937; retired in [1946].
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Digital copies of flying log books, 1917-1946, notably covering his service with 5 Sqn, 5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service and 205 Sqn, RAF, France, 1917-1918, and with 70 (Bomber) Sqn, Iraq, 1928-1930, and including detailed accounts of bombing raids on France, 1917-1918.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Original order
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form and provision of two forms of identification to include one photographic.
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.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Digital copies made from original volumes formerly deposited in the LHCMA, withdrawn by the family, 2015
Allied Materials
Related material:
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Rules or conventions:
Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 1997
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