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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis GCB KBE DSO DL

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This record is about the Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis GCB KBE DSO DL dating from 1966, c.1973.

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Title: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis GCB KBE DSO DL
Date: 1966, c.1973
Description: Tss memoirs (100pp), written in 1973, covering his service as Chief of Staff to the C-in-C Mediterranean (February 1939 - March 1941); as C-in-C South Atlantic (September 1941 - February 1942); as second-in-command of the Eastern Fleet (March 1942 - February 1943); as Flag Officer commanding Force H in the Mediterranean (March - September 1943); as C-in-C Levant (October 1943 - January 1944) and as Second Sea Lord (1944 - 45). His memoirs include assessments of Admirals of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Viscount Cunningham and Sir James Somerville and numerous references to failings in inter-service cooperation and the selection of priorities in the allocation of material resources, and there is a separate ts paper (10pp), written in 1966, about Churchill's influence on the war at sea.
Held by: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents
Language: English
Creator(s): <persname>Willis, Sir, Algernon Usborne, 1889-1976, Knight, Admiral</persname>
Access conditions: Unrestricted
Physical condition: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, PHOTOCOPIES
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/a88e1aa2-2f06-411f-a04b-adf23f52c4ee/