Vol. cxliv k. ‘The Auxiliary Patrol in War’, by Capt. H. S. Lecky, offprint from The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, vol. 78, no. 509, Feb. 1933. With covering letter from Lecky to Keyes, 20 March 1936.
Vol. cxliv l. Amphibious Warfare in British History, by Adm. Sir Herbert Richmond, Historical Association Pamphlet no. 119 (Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., 1941).
Keyes Papers. Vol. cxlv. Fleet Air Arm papers; 28 May 1918 – 12 Feb. 1940, n.d. Contents: 1. Colwyn Committee on defence expenditure papers. Contains Admiralty proposals regarding the Naval air arm and notes on the findings of the Committee; 11 Nov. 1925, n.d. 2. Copy correspondence between...
Keyes Papers. E. Fleet Air Arm Papers: Vols. cxlv-clvii. The subject of Royal Navy control of its own air forces had exercised Keyes since the early days of World War One. In the 1920s he had co-authored, with his brother-in-law Chief of the Air Staff Hugh Trenchard, a scheme for joint control between the Admiralty and the Air Ministry. Ultimately Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, decided the Admiralty should retain control of carrier-borne aircraft while the A...
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Fleet Air Arm: Adm. Keyes's papers on the Fleet Air Arm: 1918-1940, n.d.
Keyes Papers. Vol. cxlviii. Parliamentary papers; Feb. 1934– 22 Jan. 1944, n.d. Contents: 1. Printed by-election addresses of Keyes and his Labour opponent, Edward Humby, for the 1934 Portsmouth North by-election; Feb. 1934. 2. Invergordon. Papers relating to the mutiny in Sept. 1931 when, ...
Keyes Papers. F. Parliamentary Papers: Vols. cxlviii-clii. Keyes was elected M.P. for Portsmouth North in a by-election in February 1934 and held the seat until elevated to the peerage in 1943.