IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Van Straubenzee
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: VAN STRAUBENZEE, Lt Col Henry Hamilton (1914-2002)
Date(s): 1997
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): van Straubenzee | Henry Hamilton | 1914-2002 | Lieutenant Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1914; educated at Aysgarth School, Winchester College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; commissioned into Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Aug 1934; served in France, 1939-1940; participated in Operation DYNAMO, the evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Dunkirk, May-June 1940; attended Staff College, Camberley, 1941; served as Brigade Maj with 126 Infantry Bde and 11 Armoured (Tank) Bde, UK, 1941-1943; Lt Col, 1943; 10 Armoured Div, Middle East, 1943-1944; 12 Royal Tank Regt, Italy, 1944-1945; 1 Div, Palestine, 1945-1946; School of Land/Air Operations, Old Sarum, 1947; War Office, 1948; Staff College, Camberley, 1949-1950; served with 11 Armoured Div in Germany, 1950-1953; Military Assistant to Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1953-1956; Officer commanding 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, 1956-1957; retired 1957; worked for WH Smith, 1957-1977; Managing Director of WH Smith, 1968; died 2002.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Reminiscences (1997), privately published memoir of the life and Army career of Lt Col Henry van Straubenzee, including his time as a first-class cricketer for the Army and Essex, 1938-1939; participation in Operation DYNAMO, 1940; service in the Middle East, 1943-1944; Italy 1944-1945; Palestine 1945-1946; Germany, 1950-1953; post war career with WH Smith, 1957-1977.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file as above.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.
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, attention of the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description in hard copy.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in centre by family, Dec 2003
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by James Pugh, March 2004
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2004