Item ADAM 3/10 - Details of Adam's military career, 1935-1946

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ADAM 3/10

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Details of Adam's military career, 1935-1946

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  • [1946] (Creation)

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1 vol

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Notebook containing manuscript biography of Adam's service, as General Staff Officer Grade 1 in War Office, 1935-1936; as Commander, Royal Artillery 1 Div, 1936-1937; as Commandant of Staff College, Camberley, 1937; as Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1938-1939; as Gen Officer Commander in Chief, Northern Command, 1940-1941; to Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1941-1946, and also includes his discussions with the French War Office over the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, 1936; War Office plans in the event of a British-Italian war, 1938; effect of the Munich crisis on British Army planning, 1938; Adam's role in the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk, 1940; descriptions of Adam's foreign tours as Adjutant-General, 1941-1946; planning of demobilisation, 1945-1946. 1 vol.

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