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Date(s)
- 1945 Apr 1-1945 May 7[1955] (Creation)
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Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Chief of Imperial General Staff semi-official file 6u: including telegrams to Brooke and Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, from FM Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief, 21 Army Group, 1 Apr-4 May 1945, reporting on progress of operations in North West Europe, Apr-May 1945, mainly advance to and crossing of the Elbe, and surrender of German Army in 21 Army Group area; telegrams between Montgomery and Brooke, and from US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, Western Europe, to Combined Chiefs of Staff, 13 Apr-6 May 1945, concerning future operations in Germany; minute from Rt Hon Sir (Percy) James Griggs, Secretary of State for War, to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister, 26 Apr 1945, concerning need to appoint British representatives to Allied Control Commission, Germany. 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].