Vice-Admiral Sir Ballin Robertshaw KBE CB

Brief ms. autobiography (25 pp) covering his service as a junior officer in Home waters and on foreign stations and his qualification as a navigating officer, 1919-33, and his command of the cruiser Cleopatra, 1944-45 (on microfilm only); ms. diary (17 pp), with related documents and presscuttings, covering his service on the abortive Anglo-French military mission to Russia, August 1939; ts. copy (326 pp) of Commodore C E Douglas-Pennant's report, as Naval Commander Force G, on their service in Operation "Neptune", the D-Day landings, June 1944; ms. sketch of the Amethyst incident on the Yangtse river, April 1949; copies of various Admiralty press releases and speeches on naval matters 1949-59; and an undated ts. copy (218 pp) of the Naval War Manual.

Unrestricted