SHORT, Brig Sir Noel Edward Vivian (1916-2001)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Short
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: SHORT, Brig Sir Noel Edward Vivian (1916-2001)
Date(s)	: 1815-1994
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Short | Sir | Noel Edward Vivian | Knight | 1916-2001

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1916; educated Radley and the Royal Military College Sandhurst; South Wales Borderers in North West Frontier, 1937; served Assam and Burma, 1942, 1945; New Guinea, 1943-1944; command of 4 Bn 6 Gurkha Rifles in India, 1945; Staff College, 1946-1947; on staff of Headquarters Malaya and battalion and brigade commander during the Malayan Emergency,1950-1960; retired from the Army in 1964; civil service in Home Office, 1964-1970; Secretary to successive Speakers of the House of Commons, 1970-1982; Colonel, 6 Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1978-1983; died, 2001.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to Brigadier Short's service in Malaya, correspondence, journal articles and photographs, 1950-1994; notably including copies of the Army Quarterly and regimental newsletter Parbate containing articles on Short and on the role of the Staff College, 1958, 1982; copy of an extract from Jai Sixth. The story of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1817-1994 by James Lunt (Leo Cooper, London, 1994), including an account by Short of jungle operations during the Malayan Emergency, 1955; typescript copy of a letter written by an ancestor, Charles William Short of the Coldstream Guards, to his mother, 19 June 1815, containing a first hand account of the Battle of Waterloo; brief article by John Parfect on a memorial erected in Ampleforth College by Parfect and Short to Capt Michael Allmand of the Gurkha Rifles; Portrait photographs of Short.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged under the main headings outlined above.

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, attemtion of the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line and available in hardcopy in the Centre Reading Room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Brig Short's widow, Lady Short, placed the papers in the Centre in 2002

Allied Materials

Related material:

Material in the Liddell Hart Centre concerning the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) includes the memoirs of Maj Gen Corran William Brooke Purdon (GB 0099 KCLMA Purdon) and the papers of Maj Gen Dennis Edmund Blaquière Talbot (GB 0099 KCLMA Talbot).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Who's who. Obituary. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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:
April 2003