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Date(s)
- 1915 Mar 13 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
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