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CLARKE, ARTHUR JOHN

Archive File: LIDDLE/WW1/RNMN/325

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Type of record: Archive

Title: CLARKE, ARTHUR JOHN

Level: File

Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/RNMN/325

Date(s): 1913-1926

Size and medium: 1 file

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/30817

Collection group(s): Liddle Collection

Description

22 photographs, some with negatives and caption notes (1913-1926); Press cutting 'Completion of the New Russian Murman Railway' (nd); Manuscript notes (nd); Diary (11 Oct-23 Nov 1916); Diary (1925); Colour photocopy of sketch of G6 submarine (nd); Princess Mary Gift Box (1914); 3 medals (1914-1919); Biographical notes and handlist of material (nd); 2 receipts (30 June 1926, nd); Manuscript letter of reference (29 Dec 1922); Typescript letter of reference (13 May 1924); 3 typed transcripts of letters to the Commanding Officer of HMS Delhi, one from AJ Clarke, one from F McKinlay and RH Baxter, and one from AA Barncastle, Sydney Christadelphian Ecclesia, and all relating to AJ Clarke's application for discharge on grounds of conscientious objection (4 May 1926); RN (Royal Navy) Educational Test, Part 1, certificate (15 Nov 1920).

Biography or history

Clarke, Arthur John (b 1894). Born at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, and trained at Devonport from age 15. Signalman, RN (Royal Navy), serving with the Submarine Service, 1913-1921. Discharged in July 1926 at Sydney, Australia.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by Mollie Clarke (daughter) in Mar 1998 and Aug 2000. See Research Correspondence File.

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