Item HAMILTON, ISM 7/4/7 - Notes by Major General Walter Braithwaite, CGS MEF, Mar 1915, including instructions on communicating with Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty

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HAMILTON, ISM 7/4/7

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Notes by Major General Walter Braithwaite, CGS MEF, Mar 1915, including instructions on communicating with Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty

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  • 1915 Mar 13 (Creation)

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Manuscript notes by Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), including instructions from an interview with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, First Lord of the Admiralty, mainly relating to means of communicating with Churchill (with Hamilton's manuscript notes of same interview); structure and personnel of General Staff branch MEF. With photocopy of manuscript of final version of 'Instructions for General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force', produced by FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, and outlining the strategic objectives of the Dardanelles Campaign [possibly in hand of Lt Col Basil Thorold Buckley]. 1 file

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