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

CUNLIFFE, Dr Percy Walmsey (1898-1992)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cunliffe P W

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

Title: CUNLIFFE, Dr Percy Walmsey (1898-1992)

Date(s): [1915-1922], 1927-1928, 1931-1932, 1955, 1990

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 files

Name of creator(s): Cunliffe | Percy Walmsey | 1898-1992 | chemist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1898; studied chemistry at King's College London, 1915-1917, 1919-1920; served in Royal Naval Air Service and RAF, 1917-1918; postgraduate, King's College London, 1920-1922; researcher at British Cotton Industries Research Association, 1922; died in 1992.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in the Royal Naval Air Service and RAF, 1917-1918, dated 1917-1918, 1955, 1990, principally comprising log-book covering his flights in the UK, 1917-1918; photographs of aircraft and personnel, including Cunliffe. Texts and notes for lectures relating to photography, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932. Photographs of Cunliffe in his service uniform and with colleagues from King's College London, [1915-1922].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

2 files

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 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 1992.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Log books | Documents | Information sources
Military aircraft | Aircraft | Vehicles | Transport
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Photography

Personal names
Cunliffe | Percy Walmsey | 1898-1992 | chemist

Corporate names
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy
Royal Naval Air Service

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe