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BURROWS, Cdr Edgar Allison (1889-[1979])


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Burrows

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

Title: BURROWS, Cdr Edgar Allison (1889-[1979])

Date(s): Created [1914-1920], [1939-1945]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 boxes or 0.03 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Burrows | Edgar Allison | 1889-[1979] | RN Commander

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1889; qualified as an accountant, 1912; joined RN, 1914; served on HMS PARTRIDGE and HMS ST GEORGE; saw action at Gallipoli, 1915; served in Salonika, Greece, 1916-1918; served on staff of Adm Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, Serbia, 1918-1919; Treasurer, Interallied (later International) Commission on the Danube, Hungary, 1919-1920; worked for the Admiralty in Shipping Casualties Section, Trade Division, interviewing survivors of sunk and damaged ships, [1939-1945]; died in [1979].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in the RN, [1914-1920], [1939-1945], principally comprising carbon copies of letters to his family describing his service at Gallipoli, 1915-1916, and in Salonika, Greece, 1916-1918; typescript texts, written in [1918-1975], principally comprising descriptive sketches of life in Salonika, 1916-1918, in Belgrade after the retreat of German and Austrian forces, 1918-1919, and in Budapest following Communist uprising led by Bela Hung Kun, 1919, written in [1918-1975]; typescript text by Harry W Frantz on Troubridge's work in Serbia and Hungary, 1915-1918, and as President of the Interallied Commission of the Danube, 1919-1920, written in 1920. Photographs relating to his service in Gallipoli, 1915, Salonika, 1915-1918, Belgrade, 1918-1919, and press photographs of the Communist revolution in Budapest, 1919-1920. Glass slides relating to his service in Salonika, 1915-1918. Papers relating to Burrows' work in the Shipping Casualties Section, Trade Division, Admiralty, 1939-1945, principally comprising descriptions of the work of the section, official reports concerning sunk or damaged ships and texts of interview with survivors.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: early RN career; Gallipoli and HMS Partridge; Salonika; Yugoslavia and Belgrade; Hungary and Budapest; Shipping Casualties Section; miscellaneous; photographic material; second accession.

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.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1979 and 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Communism | Collectivism | Political doctrines
Photographs | Visual materials
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Burrows | Edgar Allison | 1889- ? 1979 | RN Commander
Kun | Béla Hung | 1886-1937 | Hungarian Revolutionary Communist
Troubridge | Sir | Ernest Charles Thomas | 1862-1926 | Knight | Admiral

Corporate names
HMS George
HMS Partridge
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Belgrade | Serbia | Yugoslavia | Eastern Europe
Budapest | Hungary | Eastern Europe
Gallipoli | Turkey | Middle East
Salonika | Greece | Western Europe | Europe
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | Eastern Europe
USSR | Eastern Europe
Macedonia x The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Soviet Union x USSR