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HAMERSLEY, Lt Col James Hubert St George (1916- 1983)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Hamersley

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: HAMERSLEY, Lt Col James Hubert St George (1916- 1983)

Date(s): Created 1940-1961

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume, 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1916; educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; Lt, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; temporary Capt, 1941-1942; service in Malta, 1940-1942; served in Sicily and Italy, 1943; Capt, 1944; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1944; GeneralStaff Officer 2, Headquarters 8 Army, Italy, 1944-1945; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office, 1945-1947; Instructor, Royal Corps of Signals Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1947-1949; Chief Instructor, 1948-1949; Maj, 1949; Instructor, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1949-1952; General Staff Officer 2, Headquarters, East African Command, Kenya, 1952-1954; service in Malaya, 1954- 1956; Lt Col, 1956; Commanding Officer, 6 Armoured Div Signal Regt, Royal Corps of Signals, British Army of the Rhine, 1956-1958; retired from the Army, 1960; awarded OBE, 1961; employed by Lines Brothers; died 1983.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photograph album/scrapbook, 1940-1948, including photographs of the Santerno valley and Castel del Rio, northern Italy, Nov- Dec 1944 and official information booklets entitled 'Soldier's guide to Sicily' and 'Soldier's guide to Rome' [1943]; letters of acknowledgment for efficient service from superior officers including Col Geoffrey Rimbault, Deputy Chief of Staff, East AfricaCommand, Jun 1954; Maj Gen Richard James Moberly, Chief Staff Officer, Headquarters British Army of the Rhine, Jun 1957; Maj Gen Denis Stuart Scott ('Rory') O'Connor, General Officer Commanding 6 Armoured Div, British Army of the Rhine, Jan-Feb 1958; Maj Gen Kenneth Cecil Orville Bastyan, Chief Signals Officer, Headquarters Northern Army Group, British Army of the Rhine, Apr 1958; Lt Col Terence Douglas Herbert McMeekin, Commanding Officer 29 Field Regt Royal Artillery, Jan 1961.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 volume, 1 file

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, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Officers | Armed forces | State security
Personnel | People by occupation | People
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Bastyan | Kenneth Cecil Orville | 1906-1975 | Major General
Hamersley | Hubert St George | 1916-1983 | Lieutenant Colonel
McMeekin | Sir | Terence Douglas Herbert | 1918-1984 | Knight | Lieutenant General
Moberly | Richard James | b 1906 | Major General
O'Connor | Sir | Denis Stuart Scott | 1907-1988 | Knight | Lieutenant General
Rimbault | Geoffrey Acworth | 1908-1991 | Brigadier

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Castel del Rio | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Rome | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Santerno valley | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Sicily | Italy | Western Europe | Europe