Reference number
  • GRD
Date
  • c.1914-1918
Level
  • Collection
Description
  • Pocket notebooks, mainly re: torpedo works during First World War.
Extent
  • 1 box
Admin history
  • John Greenwood was employed as a tool-maker, working on torpedoes, at the Naval dockyard in Weymouth for the duration of the First World War. After 1918, he returned home to Yorkshire, and married in 1921. Following the death of his first wife in 1924, Greenwood re-married in the following year. Becoming unemployed in 1926, Greenwood and his family moved to London, where he worked for the AEC until he retired in 1953.
Access status
  • Open
Language/scripts of material
  • English