Captain J Ellerton DSC RN

Microfilm copy of letters and reports of proceedings and other official records retained during his appointments as a junior paymaster officer in the cruiser HMS DANAE, mainly covering her employment on 'showing the flag' cruises on the North America and West Indies Station (September 1930 - October 1932) and as Secretary to the Captain (D) of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in Home waters and on cruises to Portugal and Scandinavia (June 1933 - July 1935); and as Secretary to Rear Admiral (later Admiral Sir Harold) Burrough during his appointment as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, with daily operations reports prepared for the First Lord of the Admiralty (September - December 1939), his command of the 10th Cruiser Squadron at the time of Operation Pedestal, the bitterly contested passage of a supply convoy to Malta in August 1942, with reports of proceedings from many of the ships in the escort force and reports by the Shipping Casualties Section in the Admiralty of interviews with the senior survivors of some of the merchant ships lost from the convoy (August - December 1942), and his appointment as Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force, with a report covering the final stages of the naval war in North West Europe (July 1945); together with copies of papers relating to his father Captain (later Admiral) W M Ellerton's command of the cruiser HMS CORNWALL at the Battle of the Falkland Islands including reports on the pursuit and sinking of the German cruiser LEIPZIG, track charts and related presscuttings (December 1914 - February 1915).

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The papers listed under ELL 3-5 were all acquired by Captain Ellerton in his capacity as Secretary to Admiral Sir Harold Burrough. He first served under Burrough in the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from 1935-7, then when Burrough was Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1939-40, in command of the 10th Cruiser Squadron from 1940-42 and finally as Allied Naval C-in-C, Expeditionary Force in 1945.