FAIRTHORNE, RICHARD
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: FAIRTHORNE, RICHARD
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/RNMN/REC/029
Date(s): 1914-1918
Size and medium: 26 sheets
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/26881
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
Photocopied typescript recollections 'Some Naval Memories of 45 Years ago' (nd); photocopied Manuscript recollections 'Some thoughts on the navy over 65 years' (nd); published article 'Battleships in Collision', published in the Nautical Magazine, 1981' photocopied typescript footnotes to an earlier Nautical Magazine article (1960).
Biography or history
Fairthorne, Richard (1898-?). During the First World War he served as a Midshipman on board HMS Leviathan in the South Atlantic, at the Battle of Jutland and in the North Sea (1914-1918). Later Lieutenant Commander.
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by Richard Fairthorne in 1981. See Royal Navy Correspondence File.
System of arrangement
Alphabetically in Recollections File 1.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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