IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Short
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: SHORT, Brig Sir Noel Edward Vivian (1916-2001)
Date(s): 1815-1994
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Short | Sir | Noel Edward Vivian | Knight | 1916-2001
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1916; educated Radley and the Royal Military College Sandhurst; South Wales Borderers in North West Frontier, 1937; served Assam and Burma, 1942, 1945; New Guinea, 1943-1944; command of 4 Bn 6 Gurkha Rifles in India, 1945; Staff College, 1946-1947; on staff of Headquarters Malaya and battalion and brigade commander during the Malayan Emergency,1950-1960; retired from the Army in 1964; civil service in Home Office, 1964-1970; Secretary to successive Speakers of the House of Commons, 1970-1982; Colonel, 6 Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1978-1983; died, 2001.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to Brigadier Short's service in Malaya, correspondence, journal articles and photographs, 1950-1994; notably including copies of the Army Quarterly and regimental newsletter Parbate containing articles on Short and on the role of the Staff College, 1958, 1982; copy of an extract from Jai Sixth. The story of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1817-1994 by James Lunt (Leo Cooper, London, 1994), including an account by Short of jungle operations during the Malayan Emergency, 1955; typescript copy of a letter written by an ancestor, Charles William Short of the Coldstream Guards, to his mother, 19 June 1815, containing a first hand account of the Battle of Waterloo; brief article by John Parfect on a memorial erected in Ampleforth College by Parfect and Short to Capt Michael Allmand of the Gurkha Rifles; Portrait photographs of Short.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged under the main headings outlined above.
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, attemtion of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line and available in hardcopy in the Centre Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Brig Short's widow, Lady Short, placed the papers in the Centre in 2002
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Material in the Liddell Hart Centre concerning the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) includes the memoirs of Maj Gen Corran William Brooke Purdon (GB 0099 KCLMA Purdon) and the papers of Maj Gen Dennis Edmund Blaquière Talbot (GB 0099 KCLMA Talbot).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: MBE, MC
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's who. Obituary. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2003