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

SLINGSBY, Capt Henry Laurence (1893-1917)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Slingsby H L

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

Title: SLINGSBY, Capt Henry Laurence (1893-1917)

Date(s): Created 1914-1917

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1893; served with King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, France and Belgium, 1914-1917; killed in action in 1917.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bound copies of illustrated French military magazine Le Miroir nos 75-108, 1915. Transcripts of diary entries and letters describing his service in France and Belgium, 1914-1917, notably the Battle of Le Cateau, Aug 1914, first Battle of the Marne, Sep 1914, first Battle of the Aisne, Sep 1914, and first battle of Ypres, Oct-Nov 1914, with related photographs, newspaper cuttings and correspondence, 1914-1920.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

3 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 provided 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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Centre also holds the papers of Slingsby's brother, William Ecroyd Slingsby (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Slingsby W E) and of his nephew, Lt Col William Laurence Slingsby (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Slingsby W L).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Slingsby | Henry Laurence | 1893-1917 | Captain

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Aisne | France | Western Europe | Europe
Le Cateau | France | Western Europe | Europe
Marne, river | France | Western Europe | Europe
Ypres | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe