IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Edgell J A
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: EDGELL, Adm Sir John Augustine (1880-1962)
Date(s): Created 1947
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
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CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1880; joined RN, 1894; appointed to command HMS MUTINE, Africa Station in 1912, and went on tocommand HMS TRITON, HMS HEARTY, HMS ENDEAVOUR, HMS MERLIN and HMAS MORESBY; served in the North Sea and theDardenelles during World War One; Cdr, 1915; Superintendant of Charts, Admiralty, 1917-1920 and 1923-1925; Capt, 1923; AssistantHydrographer, 1928-1930 and 1931-1932; Hydrographer of the Navy, 1932-1945; R Adm, 1935; V Adm, 1938; retired list, 1938; ActingConservator of the Mersey, 1945-1951; British Delegate at International Hydrographic Conference in 1919, 1929, 1932 and 1937; died in1962.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
International Hydrographic Bureau 'Report of the Proceedings of the 5th International HydrographicConference, Monaco, 22 April-5 May, 1947'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
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 forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line athttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre'sreading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1985.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997