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Date(s)
- 1941 Jul 4-1941 Dec 24 (Creation)
Level of description
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1 file
Scope and content
Chief of Imperial General Staff semi-official file, 4c: mainly correspondence between Gen Sir John Greer Dill, Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, and Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, Jul-Nov 1941, concerning military situation in the Middle East and preparations for offensive in the Western Desert, particularly the supply of reinforcements of troops and tanks and reasons for delay in beginning operations; letter to Auchinleck from Churchill, 8 Jul 1941, on press reports of Auchinleck's comments on the need for American manpower in the war against Germany; telegram from Auchinleck to Churchill, 30 Nov 1941, passing on views of Middle East Defence Committee on Allied assistance to Turkey; correspondence between Brooke and Auchinleck, Dec 1941, concerning Auchinleck's private telegrams to Churchill and command organisation in the Middle East; telegrams from Auchinleck to Churchill, Dec 1941, reporting on progress of operations in Western Desert. With typescript note on content of letters in this file by [Marian C Long, research assistant to Royal Regiment of Artillery and Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, 1955].