Collection SLINGSBY, HL - SLINGSBY, Capt Henry Laurence (1893-1917)

Key Information

Reference code

SLINGSBY, HL

Title

SLINGSBY, Capt Henry Laurence (1893-1917)

Date(s)

  • 1914-1917 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

3 volumes

Scope and content

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.

System of arrangement

3 volumes

General Information

Name of creator

(1893-1917)

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.

Custodial history

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1996.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

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).

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: MC

Alternative identifier(s)

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area