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

RAVEN, R Adm John Stanley (1910-1987)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Raven

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

Title: RAVEN, R Adm John Stanley (1910-1987)

Date(s): Created 1939-1964

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

1910; educated at Huddersfield College and Leeds University; commissioned into Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1939; served in HMS GLOUCESTER and HMS ORION, World War Two, 1939-1945; transferred to Royal Navy in 1946; Rear Admiral, 1962; Director of Engineering and Training Division, Admiralty, and Deputy Chairman of Naval Engineering officer, 1962-1965; retired in 1965; died in 1987.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to service in HMS GLOUCESTER, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, World War Two, including photocopy of diary, 1939-1940, naval messages, 1940-1943, and photographs; official service records, 1941-1958; and papers relating to naval career, 1949-1964, including article dated 1965, 'A Perspective View of Naval Engineering', on the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged chronologically in sections according to service.

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:

Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1991.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CB

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Marine engineering | Transport engineering
Photographs | Visual materials
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Naval engineering x Marine engineering
Electrical engineering
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
HMS Gloucester
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Places