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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

WELDON, Brig Hamilton Edward Crosdill (1910-1985)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Weldon

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: WELDON, Brig Hamilton Edward Crosdill (1910-1985)

Date(s): Created [1945]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1910; educated at Charterhouse School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1930; Lt, 1933; Capt, 1938; Adjutant, 1939-1940; Bde Maj, Malta, 1941; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Malta, 1941-1943; Staff College, Camberley, 1943-1944; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, later Assistant Quartermaster General, SHAEF, 1944-1945; General Staff Officer Grade 1, later Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, HQ 21 Army Group, 1945; Assistant Quartermaster General, British Army of the Rhine, 1944-1946; Assistant Quartermaster General, HQ Southern Command, 1948-1951; British Army of the Rhine, 1951-1952; Col on Staff of SHAPE, 1952-1953; Command of 22 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Germany, 1953-1955; Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office, 1955-1958; Commander, 33 Anti-Aircraft Bde, 1958-1960; Commandant, School of Artillery, 1960-1962; ADC to the Queen, 1961-1962; Secretary, County of London Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, 1962-1968, and Greater London Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, 1968-1974; died in 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Drama in Malta, a personal flashback', Weldon's account of his service in Malta, 1939-1943, based on notes made in 1939-1943, printed by Printing and Stationery Service, British Army of the Rhine, [1945]. 'A collection of Field Marshal Montgomery's personal messages to 21 Army Group, Normandy to the Baltic, 1944-1945', printed by Printing and Stationery Services, 21 Army Group, [1945].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

2 volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Weldon in 1982.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Library, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Montgomery | Bernard Law | 1887-1976 | 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead | Field Marshal x Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead | 1st Viscount

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Malta | Western Europe | Europe