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2 Official: Second World War
3 Official: India
4 Official: post-war
5 Personal: correspondence
6 Literary: memoirs
7 Literary: articles
8 Literary: lectures
9 Miscellanea
10 Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst: records of life, 1895-1965
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The Papers of Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst

Title Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst: records of life, 1895-1965
Reference ELMT 10
Covering Dates 1895–1974 (Dates given are those covered by Elmhirst's recollections. The cassettes were recorded in December 1973 - January 1974.)
Extent and Medium 12 cassettes; audio tape
Content and context

Cassettes giving Elmhirst's spoken account of his career.

Access and Use

Access copies do not currently exist for most of these tapes (exceptions are marked in the catalogue); please consult staff in advance.

Churchill/ELMT 10 contains:
1 Childhood; Preparatory School; Royal Navy Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth.
audio tape.
1895–1912
2 Naval cadet, HMS Cornwall; Midshipman, Royal Navy, HMS Indomitable.
audio tape.
1912–1951
3 HMS Indomitable; Battle of Dogger Bank; start of airship flying.
audio tape.
1915
4 Airship flying from Howden.
audio tape.
1916–1918
5 Royal Navy Airship Station Anglesey.
audio tape.
1918–1920
6 R36; RAF Navigation School R34; Malta; RAF Staff College.
audio tape.
1920–1925
7 Air Ministry; RAF Leuchars.
audio tape.
1925–1930
8 RAF Malta; Marriage; No. XV Squadron Abingdon.
audio tape.
1930–1937
9 Air Attaché, Turkey.
audio tape.
1937–1939
10 RAF Leconfield; World War II and Battle of Britain.
audio tape.
1939–1940
11 Battle of Britain.
audio tape.
1940
12 Staff conversations at Ankara with Turks.
audio tape.
1941
13 Air Officer Commanding RAF Egypt; Air Officer Administration Desert Air Force.
audio tape.
1941–1942
14 Air Officer Administration Desert Air Force; Gazala Battle and retreat to El Alamein.
audio tape.
1942
15 Battle of El Alamein.
audio tape.
1942
16 Tunis Campaign.
audio tape.
1943
17 Sicily Campaign.
audio tape.
1943
18 D Day Campaign and N W Europe; V E Day.
audio tape.
1944–1945
19 Air Ministry Intelligence; To India.
audio tape.
1946–1947
20 Indian Independence Day and the start of Indian Air Force.
audio tape.
1947
21 India; Atom Bomb; Coronation; Guernsey.
audio tape.
1947–1953
22 Guernsey.
audio tape.
1953–1958
23 Guernsey; Retirement.
audio tape.
1958–1968
24 Postscripts. Additional recollections.
audio tape.
1904–1974

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