WRETHAM, Kenneth Edward (b 1925)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Wretham
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	: WRETHAM, Kenneth Edward (b 1925)
Date(s)	: 1943-1945
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Wretham | Kenneth Edward | b 1925 | telegraph operator

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1925, trained as a telegraph operator, HMS ROYAL ARTHUR, 1943; escort carrier HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of official photographs of HMS RAJAH, 1944-1945, including details of anti-aircraft guns; aircraft on board (some crashed onto deck); aircraft being unloaded by crane; Suez Canal; wardroom and ratings messdeck, Christmas 1944; boxing and hockey on deck. Also copy of a certificate of service for 1943-1946; wireless history sheet, 1943-1945.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Kenneth Wretham loaned the items for copying in 2003

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Centre holds the papers of Peter Lavender that contain telegrams transmitted from, and received by, HMS RAJAH, 1944.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2003