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SELBY, R Adm William Halford (1902-1994)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Selby

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

Title: SELBY, R Adm William Halford (1902-1994)

Date(s): Created 1946, 1956, [1968-1977], 1983, 1987, 1989, 1994

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1902; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; entered Royal Navy, 1916; Midshipman, HMS ROYAL OAK, Black Sea and Dardanelles, 1920; Sub-Lt, HMS VENDETTA and HM Yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT, 1924; served on various destroyers, Mediterranean and China Stations, 1927-1936; attended Naval Staff College, 1939; commanded HMS WREN, 1939, HMS MASHONA, 1940-1941 and HMS ONSLAUGHT, 1942-1944; Capt. 1943; Chief of Staff, Londonderry, 1944-1945; Capt, 'D' Third Flotilla, in command of HMS SAUMAREZ, Mediterranean, 1946-1947; Deputy Director, Operations Division, Admiralty, 1948-1950; Capt-in-Charge, Simonstown Dockyard, South Africa, 1950-1952; R Adm, 1953; headed British Naval Mission to Greece, 1953-1955; retired, 1956; died in 1994.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and RN career, 1902-1956, dated 1956, [1968-1977], 1983, 1987, 1989 and 1994, principally comprising photographs relating to the mining of the HMS SAUMAREZ, Corfu Channel, 1946; 'Memoires (sic) of a salthorse', an illustrated account of his life and career, 1902-1956, notably covering his service on HMS MASHONA, North Sea, Norway and Atlantic, 1940-1941, and HMS ONSLAUGHT, Russian convoys, 1942-1944, as Chief of Staff, Londonderry, 1944-1945, on HMS SAUMAREZ, Mediterranean, 1946-1947, and in South Africa, 1950-1952, and Greece, 1953-1955, written in 1989 for private circulation.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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 provided 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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CB, DSC

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents
Seas

Personal names

Corporate names
HMS Mashona
HMS Onslaught
HMS Saumarez
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Atlantic Ocean | Oceans
Corfu | Greece | Western Europe | Europe
Norway | Northern Europe | Western Europe | Europe
South Africa | Southern Africa
North Sea