'Drama in Malta, a personal flashback', Weldon's account of his service in Malta, 1939-1943, based on notes made in 1939-1943, printed by Printing and Stationery Service, British Army of the Rhine, [1945]. 'A collection of Field Marshal Montgomery's personal messages to 21 Army Group, Normandy to the Baltic, 1944-1945', printed by Printing and Stationery Services, 21 Army Group, [1945].
WELDON, Brig Hamilton Edward Crosdill (1910-1985)
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- ReferenceGB 99 KCLMA Weldon
- Dates of Creation[1945]
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description2 volumes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Born in 1910; educated at Charterhouse School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1930; Lt, 1933; Capt, 1938; Adjutant, 1939-1940; Bde Maj, Malta, 1941; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Malta, 1941-1943; Staff College, Camberley, 1943-1944; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, later Assistant Quartermaster General, SHAEF, 1944-1945; General Staff Officer Grade 1, later Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, HQ 21 Army Group, 1945; Assistant Quartermaster General, British Army of the Rhine, 1944-1946; Assistant Quartermaster General, HQ Southern Command, 1948-1951; British Army of the Rhine, 1951-1952; Col on Staff of SHAPE, 1952-1953; Command of 22 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Germany, 1953-1955; Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office, 1955-1958; Commander, 33 Anti-Aircraft Bde, 1958-1960; Commandant, School of Artillery, 1960-1962; ADC to the Queen, 1961-1962; Secretary, County of London Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, 1962-1968, and Greater London Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, 1968-1974; died in 1985.
Arrangement
2 volumes.
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Acquisition Information
Presented to the Centre by Weldon in 1982.
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Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
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Library, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
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