Item ASTON, GG 4/4 - Letters, 1904, relating to Aston's position at Staff College Camberley

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ASTON, GG 4/4

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Letters, 1904, relating to Aston's position at Staff College Camberley

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  • 1904 May - 1907 (Creation)

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1 file

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Correspondence relating to Aston's appointment at as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at Staff College Camberley to teach imperial strategy, fortification, artillery and coastal defence including letters about the post from Gen John Spencer Ewart; Col Henry Seymour Rawlinson; letter from Aston to Sir John Fisher requesting advice on whether he should take up the position at Camberley; telegram and letter from Fisher advising him to accept; letters of congratulation from [Capt William Wellington Godfrey] and Col Henry Dowrish Drake; letter from Gen William Purvis Wright, Deputy Adjutant General Royal Marines requesting a replacement for Aston to enable him to take up his post at Staff College, Camberley; letters on Aston's departure from the Staff College from Col Lonsdale Augustus Hale, Lt Col Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Maj Arnold Frederick Sillem, Col Hubert John Du Cane, Col Frederick William Stopford, Brig Gen Henry Wilson. 1 file

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The originals are held at the Royal Marines Museum, Eastney. The balance of the collection at Eastney consists of further newspaper cuttings relating to army training reports by Aston, 1921-1925 and 1933, and reviews of his books; further writings, 'Four

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