GB 0099 KCLMA Salmon, H M - SALMON, Col Harold Morrey (1892-1985)

6 boxes (0.06 cubic metres)

GB 0099 KCLMA Salmon, H M 1928-1981 Collection level (Fonds) 6 boxes (0.06 cubic metres) Salmon , Harold Morrey , 1892-1985 , Colonel
Born 1892; Pte, 7 (Cyclist) Bn, Welch Regt, 1908; Sgt, 1914; 2 Lt, Special Reserve, 1915; 16 Bn (Cardiff City), Welch Regt; served in France, Somme, Ypres, 1915-1916; MC, 1917; Company Commander, 1 (Service) Bn, 1918; Reserve of Officers, demobilised, 1919; Recalled to duty, Capt, Maj, Home/Service Bn, Welch Regt, 1939; Seconded to RAF, Lt Col, OC RAF Regiment Units, Operation TORCH, 1942; Commander RAF Regt (CRAFR) Mediterranean theatre, 1942-1945, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia; OBE, CBE, 1945; demobilised, 1945; Chairman of Welch Regt Officers Association, 1950-?; Treasurer, National Museum of Wales, 1963-82; Noted ornithologist, Gold Medal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), 1971; Died 1985.

Placed in centre by family in 2002 and 2003 via Mr Kingsley Oliver.

Papers relating to his life and career 1928-1981, including correspondence, (letters, reports, memoranda, training programmes, photographs and maps) relating to the Allied invasions of North Africa and Sicily (Operation TORCH and Operation HUSKY), 1942-43; correspondence between Salmon and the Air Ministry relating to the daily running of RAF Regt units under his command in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia, 1942-1945; correspondence with Maj Gen Claude Liardet, Commandant of RAF Regt, 1942-1945; Salmon's retrospective war diaries (2 vols.) detailing RAF Regt unit operations in Mediterranean theatre, 1942-1945; maps of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Greece and Yugoslavia, 1928-1944; photographs of RAF Regt units in Greece, North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945; papers relating to `Ground-Air Landmark' (GAL) operations conducted by RAF Regt, 1944-1945.

Broadly chronological

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

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.
Mainly English, one document in French

Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's Reading Room

The Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff Castle (GB 0875), holds Salmon's photographs of Welch Regiment's advance, Battle of Pilckem Ridge, 1917, catalogued and captioned by Salmon. Also aerial reconnaissance photographs of the battlefield.

Papers have been used by Kingsley Oliver for his book, The RAF Regiment at War: 1942 - 1946. London: Leo Cooper, 2002.

Compiled by James Pugh, March 2004 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. March 2004 Wars (events) Diaries Documents Eastern Europe Europe France Greece Information sources International conflicts Italy Liardet , Sir , Claude Francis , Major General Literary forms and genres Literature Military engineering Military operations Nonfiction North Africa Operation Husky (1943) Operation Torch (1942) Primary documents Prose RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force Salmon , Harold Morrey , 1892-1985 , Colonel Sicily War War diaries Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Yugoslavia

Placed in centre by family in 2002 and 2003 via Mr Kingsley Oliver.

Papers relating to his life and career 1928-1981, including correspondence, (letters, reports, memoranda, training programmes, photographs and maps) relating to the Allied invasions of North Africa and Sicily (Operation TORCH and Operation HUSKY), 1942-43; correspondence between Salmon and the Air Ministry relating to the daily running of RAF Regt units under his command in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia, 1942-1945; correspondence with Maj Gen Claude Liardet, Commandant of RAF Regt, 1942-1945; Salmon's retrospective war diaries (2 vols.) detailing RAF Regt unit operations in Mediterranean theatre, 1942-1945; maps of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Greece and Yugoslavia, 1928-1944; photographs of RAF Regt units in Greece, North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945; papers relating to `Ground-Air Landmark' (GAL) operations conducted by RAF Regt, 1944-1945.

Broadly chronological

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

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.

• English

• Latin

Mainly English, one document in French

Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's Reading Room

The Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff Castle (GB 0875), holds Salmon's photographs of Welch Regiment's advance, Battle of Pilckem Ridge, 1917, catalogued and captioned by Salmon. Also aerial reconnaissance photographs of the battlefield.

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.

• English