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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

VEASEY, Capt Robert Francis, RN (1883-1964)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Veasey

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: VEASEY, Capt Robert Francis, RN (1883-1964)

Date(s): Created 1940-1947, 1984

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1883; served in RN, 1896-1912; rejoined RN and attached to Government Steel Inspection Unit, [1914-1918]; retired from RN and started a career in farming in Kenya, 1925; rejoined RN, 1940; Naval Officer-in-Charge, Mogadishu, Somalia, 1941; Sea Transport Officer, later Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Aden, 1941-1943; Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Port Said, Egypt, 1943; retired pay, 1943; died in 1964.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of correspondence relating to his service with the RN in World War Two, 1940-1943, dated 1940-1947, 1984, principally comprising letters to his wife, 1940-1943, mainly letters written during his service as Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Port Said, Egypt, 1943; correspondence concerning coal bunkering abuse by merchants in the Red Sea, 1942-1943; correspondence concerning Veasey's retirement, 1943, dated 1942-1947; catalogue of Veasey's correspondence and brief biography of Veasey, written by his granddaughter Sarah Howard in 1984.

ACCESS AND 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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1985 from originals loaned by the family.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Sea transport x Maritime transport
International relations
Military organizations
Seas
Transport

Personal names
Howard | Sarah | fl 1984

Corporate names
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Port Said | Urban | Egypt | North Africa
Red Sea