IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Slingsby W L
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: SLINGSBY, Lt Col William Laurence (1919-1994)
Date(s): Created 1915, 1939-1962, 1989
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 files
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1919; educated at Gordonstoun School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1939; served in World War Two in Burma, 1939-1941, UK, 1941-1943, North Africa, 1943, and Italy, 1943-1944; commanded D Company, 2 Bn, Sherwood Foresters, Italy, 1944; Capt, 1946; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, 1948; Maj, 1952; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, HQ 1 Commonwealth Div and Commonwealth Contingent, Korea, 1955-1956; graduated from French Army Staff College, Paris, 1961; Military Attaché, Algiers, 1963-1965; Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office; retired, 1968; worked as stockbroker, [1968-1971]; investment manager for an international banking group, [1972]-1986; died in 1994.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his military career, 1939-1962, principally his service in Burma, 1939-1941, UK, 1941-1943, North Africa, 1943, Italy, 1943-1944, and Korea, 1955-1956, notably including battalion orders for 2 Bn, Sherwood Foresters, 1945; German propaganda leaflets for US and Allied troops, [1944]. 'An ancient Yorkshire family', a history of the Slingsby family, written by Slingsby in 1989.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, Italian, French
System of arrangement:
2 files
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 father, William Ecroyd Slingsby (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Slingsby W E) and those of his uncle, Capt Henry Laurence Slingsby (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Slingsby H L).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: MBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996