GB 0099 KCLMA Short - SHORT, Brig Sir Noel Edward Vivian (1916-2001)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Short 1815-1994 Collection (fonds) 1 file Short , Sir , Noel Edward Vivian , Knight , 1916-2001
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.

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

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.

The collection is arranged under the main headings outlined above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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

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).

Decorations: MBE, MC
Sources: Who's who. Obituary. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project. 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. April 2003 Ampleforth College Armed forces Battle of Waterloo (1815) Colonial forces International conflicts International relations Lunt , James , b 1917 , author Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) Malaysia Military engineering Military operations Military organizations Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) Organizations Short , Charles William , fl 1815 , Colonel Short , Sir , Noel Edward Vivian , Knight , 1916-2001 South East Asia State security War Wars (events)

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

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.

The collection is arranged under the main headings outlined above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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.

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English

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).

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

Decorations: MBE, MC

Decorations: MBE, MC

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