Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1955] (Creation)
- 1941 Jun 3-1941 Jun 30 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Chief of Imperial General Staff semi-official file 3b: including Gen Sir John Greer Dill's correspondence with Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 13 Jun 1941-22 Jun 1941, concerning operations in Western Desert to relieve Tobruk (Operation BATTLEAXE), Jun 1941; telegrams between Wavell and Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, 3 Jun 1941-30 Jun 1941, concerning plans for invasion of Syria (Operation EXPORTER) and transfer of command between Wavell and FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, India. 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].