IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Armstrong
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: ARMSTRONG, Engineer Cdr Sidney John (fl 1921-1941)
Date(s): Created [1925-1945]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Armstrong | Sidney John | fl 1921-1941 | Engineer Commander
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Engineer, RN, 1921; Engineer Lt Cdr, 1931; Engineer Cdr, 1935; served in the Far East 1937, and in the Mediterranean, 1941.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers principally comprising text of lecture on the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and China in 1937, including a detailed account of the Battle of Shanghai as witnessed from HMS DANAE, 1937; draft of lecture recounting his experiences on board HMS DIDO during the evacuation of Crete, Apr-Jun 1941, [1945].
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 provided 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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk.lhcma/top.htm, and 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 1986.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1997.