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- 1940 Jun - 1941 Jun (Creation)
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Semi-official correspondence between John Greer Dill and Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell on the Middle East including letter from Wavell on situation in Middle East, 5 Jun 1940; correspondence on Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax sending secret information indiscreetly to his sons and son-in-law in Palestine, Nov 1940; letter from Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell on the Middle East enclosing forecast of possible developments over the following six months in Egypt, Western Desert, Palestine, Cyprus, Sudan and Kenya, Aden and Somaliland, Iraq and Crete, 27 Nov 1940; letter from Dill to Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill enclosing a personal letter from Wavell to Dill on his doubts about operation COMPASS and reply from Churchill expressing concerns about Wavell not utilising his full force in the Middle East, 6 Dec 1940; correspondence on the possibility of offering Armistice terms to the Italians in Italian East Africa, 10 Dec 1940; letter from Wavell to Dill reporting on the situation in the Middle East including in Greece, Cyrenaica, Palestine, Crete and Cyprus, [Apr 1941]; correspondence on Tobruk, operation BRUISER and operation EXPORTER, May 1941; on operation BATTLEAXE, (second British attempt to relieve the Axis siege of Tobruk 15-17 Jun 1941), and it's failure, 10-20 Jun 1941 and on replacing Wavell with Lt Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck as Commander of British forces in the Middle East, May 1941.