Blackton, Percy (1909-1990)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Blackton
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	: Blackton, Percy (1909-1990)
Date(s)	: 1933-1936
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 volumes or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s)	: Blackton | Percy | 1909-1990

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1909; service with No 1 Armoured Car Company, Iraq, 1936; died 1990.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Two albums of black and white photographs relating to service in Iraq with No 1 Armoured Car Company, 1936, including images of sailing aboard the HMS DORSETSHIRE, Mar 1936; Port Said and the Suez Canal, Egypt, Apr 1936; No 1 Armoured Car Company on deployment in the desert near Salman Pak, Iraq; reconnaissance trip to Kurdistan, Aug 1936; landscapes and snapshots of local life, Iraq; the streets of Baghdad, Iraq; armoured vehicles and aeroplanes at headquarters; biplanes in flight; snapshots of Blackton and colleagues at headquarters and at an athletics event; accommodation and recreation facilities at headquarters. Also loose photographs of the battleship HMS RODNEY and of seaplanes being tested, including the Saro Windhover, [1933].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English.

System of arrangement:

2 volumes.

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:

No further finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, Jan 2004.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
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:
Oct 2007.