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

GOLDSMITH, V Adm Sir (Malcolm) Lennon (1880-1955)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Goldsmith

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

Title: GOLDSMITH, V Adm Sir (Malcolm) Lennon (1880-1955)

Date(s): Created 1914-1919, 1983

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1880; entered RN, 1894; commanded torpedo boat destroyer HMS LAERTES, 1913-1916; promoted to Cdr following action at Heligoland Bight, Aug 1914; commanded HMS LYDIARD, Jutland, 1916; served in Black Sea, 1919; Capt, 1919; King's Harbourmaster and Captain of Dockyard, Malta, 1926-1928; in command of HMS HAREBELL, as Captain of Fishery and Minesweeping Flotillas, 1929-1930; Naval ADC to the King, 1931; R Adm and retired list, 1931; V Adm, 1936; died in 1955.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopy of typescript copy of letters to his father, J P Goldsmith, 1914-1919, covering his service in the North Sea, 1914-1918, notably action at Heligoland Bight, Aug 1914, and the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, and in the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War, 1919, written in 1914-1919, with copy of covering letter from his daughter to the Centre, 1983.

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 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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1983 from originals held by the family.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Liddle Collection, Leeds University, holds the original letters.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Military operations | Military engineering
Naval personnel | Armed forces | State security
Russian Civil War (1917-1922) | Civil war | Political movements
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
International relations
Military organizations
Seas

Personal names
Goldsmith | J P | fl 1914-1919 | father of Vice-Admiral Sir Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith
Goldsmith | Sir | Malcolm Lennox | 1880-1955 | Knight | Vice Admiral

Corporate names
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Black Sea | Seas
Heligoland Bight | North Sea
Jutland | Denmark | Northern Europe | Western Europe | Europe
Russia | Eastern Europe
Crimea x Krym