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- 1901 - 1927 (Creation)
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96pp
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Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from FM Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer of Messines, and Annie Constance Plumer, Lady Plumer, notably comments on Godley's plans for the organisation of the New Zealand military forces, 1911 and 1913; notes on an outline plan for the Battle of Messines, carried out by British 2 Army on the Western Front under the command of Plumer on 7 Jun 1917; correspondence with Godley throughout 1917 and 1918, mainly praising the performance of 2 ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), and discussing the progress of the war; reflections concerning Godley's post as Commander in Chief, BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), and his views on the French invasion of the Ruhr, Germany, in Jan 1923. 96pp.
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The correspondence between Godley and Col Sir Clive Wigram is held at the National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, and may be consulted on microfilm at the Centre.