IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Balfour
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BALFOUR, R Adm George Ian Mackintosh (b 1912)
Date(s): Created 1944
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 0.05 box or 0.05 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Balfour | George Ian Mackintosh | b 1912 | Rear Admiral
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1912; educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, joined Royal Navy in 1925; served in China, 1930-1932 and South Africa, 1935-1937; commanded destroyers during World War Two on various stations; served in the Mediterranean, 1948; Far East, 1949-1950 and USA, 1951-1953; Capt (D), 2 Destroyer Flotilla, 1956-1958, Director of Officer Appointments, 1958-1959 and Senior Naval Member, Imperial Defence College, 1960-1963; retired in 1963.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies of reports relating to the role of HMS SCOURGE in Operations NEPTUNE and OVERLORD, Jun 1944, France.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged chronologically.
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 in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.and
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by Balfour in 1990.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996