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

LABORDE, Cdr Crichton Felix (1895-1983)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Laborde

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

Title: LABORDE, Cdr Crichton Felix (1895-1983)

Date(s): Created 1914

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1895; Clerk, HMS INFLEXIBLE, 1912-1915; died in 1983.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopies of papers relating the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 Dec 1914, comprising letter from Laborde to his father describing the action, written on 13 Dec 1914; account of the battle written by 1 and 2 Gunnery Officers of the German armoured cruiser GNEISENAU, 1914.

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 lent by the family.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Imperial War Museum

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Maritime warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Military operations | Military engineering
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
Gneisenau | German armoured crusier | 1906
HMS Flexible

Places
Atlantic Ocean | Oceans
Falkland Islands | South America