DUCKWORTH, Capt Ralph Campbell Musbury RN (1907-1983)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Duckworth
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	: DUCKWORTH, Capt Ralph Campbell Musbury RN (1907-1983)
Date(s)	: Created 1936-1937, 1946, 1951, 1955, [1959], [1962]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1907; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osbourne and Dartmouth; Lt, 1929; Lt Cdr, 1934; served in Mediterranean, 1936-1937; served as Lt Cdr and Torpedo Officer, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, 1940-1941; Cdr, 1941; served on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean and Commander-in-Chief Levant, 1941-1943; involved in planning and execution of operations for capture of Sicily, 1943; Deputy Chief of Staff to V Adm Administration, British Pacific Fleet, 1944-1945; Capt, 1946; Deputy Director Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty, 1946-1948; Naval Attaché, British Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, 1949-1951; Imperial Defence College, 1952; Capt, 1 Destroyer Sqn, 1953-1954; Staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, 1954-1955; retired in 1955; died in 1983.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers relating to his life and career, 1929-[1962], comprising four letters written while serving in Mediterranean, 1936-1937; text of his speech to the crew of HMS BERWICK in honour of Capt Arliss, 1946; synopsis of his lecture on 'The Royal Navy today', given at the Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa, Rio de Janeiro, 1951; curricula vitae, 1955, [1959], [1962].

Access & 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 provided forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 1997