DOWNEY, AVM John Chegwyn Thomas (b 1920)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Downey
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	: DOWNEY, AVM John Chegwyn Thomas (b 1920)
Date(s)	: 1983, 2002
Level of description	: Collection level
Extent	: 1 file or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s)	: Downey | John Cheywyn Thomas | b 1920 | Air Vice Marshal

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1920; educated Whitgift School; entered Royal Air Force 1939; served in Coastal Command, World War Two, 1939-1945; anti U-boat operations, 1945; Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, 1956-1958; commanded Bomber Command Development Unit, 1959-1960; head of North East Defence Secretariat, Cyprus, 1960-1962; Command, RAF Farnborough, 1962-1964; a Director of Operational Requirements (RAF), Ministry of Defence, 1965-1967; Imperial Defence College, 1968; Commandant, RAF College of Air Warfare, Manby, 1969; Commander, Southern Maritime Air Region, 1969-1971; Air Vice Marshal, 1970; Senior RAF Member, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1972-1974; Deputy Controller of Aircraft (C), Ministry of Defence, 1974-1975; retired 1975.

Publications: Management in the Armed Forces: an anatomy of the military profession (London: McGraw-Hill, 1977).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Three articles by Air Vice Marshal John Downey: `The ageing of deterrence', reprinted from The year book of world affairs, 1983; `The West against terrorism', at www.opendemocracy.net, April 2002; `The Third World versus the West', at www.opendemocracy.net, August 2002.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of 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:

Summary guide entry on-line.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by AVM Downey, August 2005

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

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:
July 2007