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