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

SIMPSON, Lt Cdr Denis Louis (d 1987)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Simpson

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

Title: SIMPSON, Lt Cdr Denis Louis (d 1987)

Date(s): Created [1940]-1946

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 reel

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joined RN, 1942; served in HMS BIRMINGHAM in convoy from Egypt to Malta (Operation VIGOROUS), June 1942; served on anti-submarine trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, Madagascar and South Africa,, 1942-1946; died in 1987.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Microfilm copies of papers relating to his naval career, 1942-1946, principally comprising 'Africa Navy blues', an illustrated account of his experiences in the RN, 1942-1946, written in 1946, covering his service on HMS BIRMINGHAM in a convoy from Egypt to Malta (Operation VIGOROUS), June 1942, and on anti-submarine trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, 1942, during the Allied invasion of Madagascar, 1942, and in South Africa, 1942-1945; diary, 1943-1945. 'War time trawler', a transcript of a broadcast by James McClurg of the South African Broadcasting Corporation concerning his experiences on board an anti-submarine trawler during World War Two, written in [1940-1945].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 reel

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 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

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by the family in 1987.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Anti-submarine warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Microfilms | Microforms | Film media | Information media
Operation Vigorous (1942) | Military operations | Military engineering
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
McClurg | James | fl 1940-1945 | broadcaster

Corporate names
HMS Birmingham

Places
Bay of Bengal | Indian Ocean
Egypt | North Africa
Madagascar | East Africa
Malta | Western Europe | Europe
South Africa | Southern Africa