BARNETT, Air Commandant Dame (Mary) Henrietta (1905-1985)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Barnett M H
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: BARNETT, Air Commandant Dame (Mary) Henrietta (1905-1985)
Date(s)	: Created 1940-1960
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 4 volumes, 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Barnett | Dame | (Mary) Henrietta | 1905-1985 | Air Commandant

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1905; joined WAAF, 1939; served with WAAF in World War Two; in charge of WRAF personnel at RAF Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy, [1945]; Inspector, WAAF, 1948; Deputy Director, WAAF, 1949-1952; Officer Commanding RAF Hawkinge, 1952-1956; Director, WRAF, 1956-1960; died in 1985.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs and press cuttings relating to her service with WAAF and WRAF, 1940-1960, notably her work as Director of WRAF, 1956-1960. Typescript account of her command of WRAF personnel at RAF Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy, [1945].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

4 volumes, 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.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Centre also holds the papers of Barnett's brother, Maj Benjamin George Barnett (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Barnett B G).

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Apr 1997