Tracy Barrett Kittredge
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| Died | 1957 | ||||||
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Exeter College, Oxford University of California, 2606 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California, USA [1915] US Navy, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, USA [1919] [and] 12 Place du Grand Mexel, Geneva, Switzerland [1921] 44 Rue Bellechasse, Paris, VIIe [1925] | ||||||
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civil service armed services | ||||||
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1914.06.10 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by Henry Balfour
1914.10.06 The report for the vacation 4) The proposal forms of Mr Manry, Messrs Kittredge, Cornish and Prof. Hiram Bingham were ordered to be suspended for the usual period at the end of which, unless any objection be lodged, by any Fellows in writing at the Institute that they be declared duly elected. No protests being received they have been duly elected.
1930.01.21 it was resolved to remove the following names from the list of Fellows owing to arrears of subscriptions: Messrs Arthur Grimble, W.R. Humphries, Charles Frederick Jackson, J.B. Kittredge, Major Erskine Martin, Samuel T. Moses, Robert Neill, J. Hunter Shaw, C.W. Shorland, Roy George Townend
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1891-1957 or after. Passed by Committee of Anthropology 17 October 1913. U.S. Relief Commissioner in Europe. International Red Cross in Paris
Tracy Barrett Kittredge accepted a civil service appointment with the staff. He earlier studied history and literature at the University of California at Berkley and then completed advanced studies in Exeter College at the University of Oxford. An American expatriate in Europe at the beginning of the First World War, Kittredge, also worked as Director of the Education Fund under Herbert Hoover on the Commission for Relief in Belgium. His fluency in the French and German languages provided additional expertise, which the U.S. Navy immediately required within the London Flagship. With additional endorsements from Commander Harold R. Stark in the Operations Division and Commander John V. Babcock in the Intelligence Division, Knox nominated Kittredge for a reserve commission in the uniformed ranks of the U.S. Navy Auxiliary Volunteer Reserve (USNAVR). Kittredge was among the first to receive a line officer’s commission with rank as a lieutenant (junior grade) in 1917.61
Knox and Kittredge established a lasting bureaucratic alliance in their collective campaign to fuse U.S. Navy operations with the intelligence derived from the broader understanding of history. During the First World War, Knox relied heavily upon Kittredge to foster personal ties with Frank Birch and Alfred “Dilly” Knox (no relation) at the Admiralty.62 Sims described the importance of informal personal ties between the Admiralty and the London Flagship that “throughout the war Kittredge’s previous historical training, European experience, and fine intellectual gifts made his services very valuable in the Intelligence Department.”63
Rather than formal lines of communications, intelligence provided by the Admiralty through the London Flagship flowed informally to the U.S. Navy forces at the front. Dissemination centered upon informal discussions between Babcock, Knox, Kittredge, and Stark within the London Flagship and their counterparts on the seagoing staffs or those deployed ashore at the front. Balancing the delicate system of gentlemen’s arrangements with Anglo-French allies against his original function as a CNO liaison, Sims also negotiated command relationships between the London Flagship and other U.S. Navy headquarters at the front. According to the Navy Register, Sims held lower lineal standing among forty-nine other rear admirals on the active list of the U.S. Navy.
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Correspondence, reports, writings, notes, and clippings, relating to the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1924; the Paris Peace Conference, 1919; the controversy between Admiral W. S. Sims and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 1919-1920; the League of Red Cross Societies, 1920-1931; and American naval operations in World War II.
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