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

REDMAN, Wg Cdr James George (1914-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Redman

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

Title: REDMAN, Wg Cdr James George (1914-1981)

Date(s): 1930-1943

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Redman | James George | 1914-1981 | Wing Commander

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1914; served with RAF technical branch (engineers); commissioned as Flight Lieutenant, 1947; Squadron Leader, 1954; Wing Commander, 1963; retired, 1969; died 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Wg Cdr James Redman, 1930-1943, comprise copy photographs relating to the career of Wg Cdr James Redman: aircraft including Vickers Victoria V, Bristol Type 105 Bulldog, Handley Page Heyford, Hawker Hart, Hawker Hind, and various crashed aircraft, 1930s; HMS GLORIOUS after refit as an aircraft carrier, [1935]; and group personnel photograph with an Avro Lancaster, [1943].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file.

Conditions governing access:

Open. In order to view archive material you will need to sign a reader's undertaking form and provide two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids exist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in centre by family, July 2003.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

The original photographs are retained by the family.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by James Pugh, Mar 2004; with revisions by Darren Short, Oct 2007.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2004, Oct 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Military aircraft | Aircraft | Vehicles | Transport
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Redman | James George | 1914-1981 | Wing Commander

Corporate names
HMS Glorious

Places