IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Marsden Smedley J B A
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: MARSDEN SMEDLEY, Cdr John Bertram Aubrey ([1893]-1959)
Date(s): [1913-1920]
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Smedley | John Bertram Aubrey Marsden | [1893]-1959 | Commander RN
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in [1893]; served in China on HMS MINOTAUR, 1913, on HMS LYDIARD, 1914-1915, HMS HARDY, 1917, and in Baltic on HMS VEGA, 1920; died in 1959.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Cdr John Bertram Aubrey Marsden Smedley, comprising photocopies of correspondence, 1913-1920, principally comprising letters to his parents, 1913-1920, including letter written from HMS MINOTAUR, China Station describing naval manoeuvres during a rebellion in Shanghai, 1913, and letter written from HMS VEGA describing tour of duty in the Baltic, 1920. Two copy photographs, one of HMS LYDIARD, [1914-1915], and one of Marsden Smedley, [1913-1920].
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:
Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Copies made by the Centre in 1986 from originals loaned by the family.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON holds the papers of his wife, Agatha H Marsden Smedley (Ref: GB0099 KCLMA Marsden Smedley A H)
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997