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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0099 KCLMA Van Straubenzee
- Title
- VAN STRAUBENZEE, Lt Col Henry Hamilton (1914-2002)
- Date(s)
- 1997
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 file
Context
- Name of creator(s)
van Straubenzee, Henry Hamilton, 1914-2002, Lieutenant Colonel
- 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.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Placed in centre by family, Dec 2003
Content & structure
- Scope and content
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.
- System of arrangement
1 file as above.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- 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.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
Collection level description in hard copy.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
- King's College London College Archives
Description control
- 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.
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- Date(s) of descriptions
Mar 2004
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Subjects
- Cricket
- International conflicts
- Leisure
- Leisure time activities
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Operation Dynamo (1940)
- Sport
- War
- Wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- World wars (events)
Personal names
- van Straubenzee, Henry Hamilton, 1914-2002, Lieutenant Colonel
- van Straubenzee, Henry Hamilton, 1914-2002, Lieutenant Colonel
Corporate names
- British Army
- Essex County Cricket Club
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