Bill Kennedy Shaw

William Boyd Kennedy Shaw

Kennedy-Shaw was born on 26 October 1901, the son of Colonel F. S. Kennedy-Shaw, of King's Orchard, Teffont Magna, Wiltshire.^[1][2] He received his formal education at Radley College.^[3]

In the 1920s and 1930s Kennedy-Shaw contributed to the exploration of the Western Desert in the area around the south-western corner of modern Egypt with his particular interest and skills as a botanist, archaeologist and navigator. He made three major trips:

During the winter of 1927/1928 Kennedy-Shaw and

He wrote one of the first books on the LRDG, entitled The Long Range Desert Group (1945), which was subject to pre-publication approval by the War Office who required changes to be made to the text; in particular the codenames of the operations he described and some real names of individuals involved in special operations. He also wrote several articles that were published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. (The Greenhill Military Paperbacks edition of his book contains supplementary notes on his life and has updating amendments to his original text, commissioned by the publisher from authorities on the subject, which notes and explains the original excisions).

Death

Kennedy-Shaw died on 23 April 1979 at the age of 77 years in Lichfield, Staffordshire.^{[citation needed]}

Decorations

For his services during the War Kennedy-Shaw received the