MARSDEN SMEDLEY, Cdr John Bertram Aubrey ([1893]-1959)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Marsden Smedley J B A
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	: MARSDEN SMEDLEY, Cdr John Bertram Aubrey ([1893]-1959)
Date(s)	: [1913-1920]
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Smedley | John Bertram Aubrey Marsden | [1893]-1959 | Commander RN

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in [1893]; served in China on HMS MINOTAUR, 1913, on HMS LYDIARD, 1914-1915, HMS HARDY, 1917, and in Baltic on HMS VEGA, 1920; died in 1959.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Cdr John Bertram Aubrey Marsden Smedley, comprising photocopies of correspondence, 1913-1920, principally comprising letters to his parents, 1913-1920, including letter written from HMS MINOTAUR, China Station describing naval manoeuvres during a rebellion in Shanghai, 1913, and letter written from HMS VEGA describing tour of duty in the Baltic, 1920. Two copy photographs, one of HMS LYDIARD, [1914-1915], and one of Marsden Smedley, [1913-1920].

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 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:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1986 from originals loaned by the family.

Allied Materials

Related material:

LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON holds the papers of his wife, Agatha H Marsden Smedley (Ref: GB0099 KCLMA Marsden Smedley A H)

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 1997