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FURSE, R Adm (John) Paul (Wellington) (1904-1978)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Furse

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

Title: FURSE, R Adm (John) Paul (Wellington) (1904-1978)

Date(s): Created 1940, [1945]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1904; educated at Royal Naval College, Osborne, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, Leicestershire; commissioned into RN, 1918; served in HM Submarines, 1927-1939; service on HMS DOLPHIN, submarine depot ship, 1932-1935; HMS MEDWAY, 4 Submarine Flotilla, China, 1937-1939; served in World War Two,1939-1945; Senior Engineering Officer, HMS SANDHURST, UK, 1939; Assistant Naval Attaché, Europe and the Americas, 1940-1943; served with 5 and 6 Submarine Flotillas, 1943-1946; awarded OBE, 1946; Admiralty, 1947; Chief Staff Officer, HMS CONDOR, Royal Naval Air Station, Arbroath, Angus, 1951; Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Admiralty, 1955-1958; awarded CB, 1958;Director General of the Aircraft Department, Admiralty, 1958-1959; retired 1959; botanical expeditions to Turkey and Iran, 1960, 1962, and to Afghanistan, 1964 and 1966; awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society, 1965; died 1978.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of two typescript texts of lectures by Furse both entitled 'Assistant Naval Attaché, Europe and the Americas' [1945]; copy of typescript narrative by Furse entitled 'British Naval agent in Scandinavia, Mar-Apr 1940'. Manuscript note by Furse on a reported rumour of a German invasion of the UK, 16-17 Sep 1940.

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1983.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Military liaison | Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
German Army
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Scandinavia | Northern Europe | Western Europe | Europe
Americas
Caribbean