Collection SLINGSBY, WL - SLINGSBY, Lt Col William Laurence (1919-1994)

Key Information

Reference code

SLINGSBY, WL

Title

SLINGSBY, Lt Col William Laurence (1919-1994)

Date(s)

  • 1989 (Creation)
  • 1939-1962 (Creation)
  • 1915 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 files

Scope and content

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.

System of arrangement

2 files

General Information

Name of creator

Slingsby, William Laurence, 1919-1994, Lieutenant Colonel
(1919-1994)

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.

Repository

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
  • French
  • Italian

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

  

Related materials

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).

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: MBE

Alternative identifier(s)

Subjects

Place access points

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