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Letter to Godley from US Gen John Joseph Pershing, regretting that he has missed seeing Godley during a short stay in London. 2pp.

Letter to Godley from Lt Gen Sir John Steven Cowans, Quartermaster General of the Forces, thanking him for congratulations on his promotion. 1p.

Life of an Irish Soldier: Reminiscences of General Sir Alexander Godley, GCB, KCMG (John Murray, London, 1939). 1 vol.

Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from R Adm the Hon Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay, notably replying to Godley's thanks after a visit to the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth. 7pp.

Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, notably an official military inspection tour of Canada, with an assessment of the standard of the infantry, artillery and cavalry, 1913; his departure from the post of Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Oct 1915; attempts to ensure that Godley be awarded a KCB for his service in Gallipoli, 1915-1916; views on the conclusions of the Dardanelles Report, and his prospects for future employment, Apr 1918; brief commentaries on events of the war, and praise for Godley and his troops, 1918; disagreements with Gen the Rt Hon Sir John Grenfell Maxwell in the Morning Post over Hamilton's claims concerning the supply of troops from Egypt to the Dardanelles in 1915, as articulated in his Gallipoli Diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920), 1920; arrangements for and descriptions of a trip to Germany, 1922; responses to a speech made by Hamilton and printed in The Times of 26 Apr 1923, concerning the lack of resources for the training of Australian officers, despite the excellence of the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Canberra, Australia, 1923; correspondence relating to the Suvla Bay landings of Aug 1915 at Gallipoli, notably a cutting of a letter in The Times of 30 Oct 1923 from [Lt] John Still, previously Adjutant 6 Bn East Yorkshire Regt, giving an eyewitness account of operations on Scimitar Hill and Tekke Tepe, during 8-9 Aug 1915. 66pp.

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.

Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from Adm Sir John Donald Kelly, mainly personal correspondence, including a description of his successor as Commander in Chief, Home Fleet, Adm William Henry Dudley Boyle. 24pp.

Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from Adm Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt, notably on events in Gallipoli including rumours of the accidental shelling of Allied troops by the RN, 1915; brief descriptions of the naval blockade of the Dardanelles straits, 1916; comments upon Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton's evidence before the Dardanelles Commission relating to the accidental firing of HMS BACCHANTE's guns on Allied troops, 1917; opinions on the foreign policy of the Rt Hon David Lloyd George and the British Government especially towards Greece, Turkey and Russia, 1920. 37pp.

Letters to Godley and Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, from FM William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, notably offering his thanks to Godley and his wife for their work in Egypt and Gallipoli during 1915, and his pleasure that Godley is to succeed him in commanding ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps); his promotion to command 5 Army on the Western Front and his regrets at leaving ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), 1918; numerous reminiscences of the period spent commanding troops at Gallipoli; discussion of reductions in the Indian army, to be created by the amalgamation of various regiments, and the political and economic repercussions, 1921-1922; the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne by the Turkish Republican Government led by Turkish Gen Mustapha Kemal Pasha, 1923; discussion of the character of Raymond Poincaré, French Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the French military occupation of the Ruhr, Germany, 1923. 61pp.

Letters to Godley from FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, on the latter's appointment as Colonel of the Irish Guards following the death of FM Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, 1946; his appointment as Minister of Defence, 1952. 4pp.

Letters to Godley from FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, notably Alanbrooke's refusal of the Chairmanship of the Royal Empire Society, 1947. 5pp.

Letters to Godley from FM Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, on the possible appointment of Maj Gen Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor, Commander Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division in Palestine, to command the New Zealand Division on the Western Front, 1917. 6pp.

Letters to Godley from FM Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, notably on the British handling of the Chanak Crisis during the Greco-Turkish War, 1920-1922, and the Lausanne Conference which followed hostilities, 1923; comments on Godley's participation in the negotiations between the British and French governments following the French occupation of the Ruhr, Germany, 1923; Godley's appointment as General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, 1924; Cavan's opposition to proposed reductions in the manpower strength of the army, with Godley's draft replies, offering suggestions for financial savings in other areas, namely the amalgamation and closure of various military schools. 54pp.

Letters to Godley from Adm the Hon Sir Algernon (Douglas Edward Harry) Boyle, on the support given by RN cruiser HMS BACCHANTE to the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) forces in Gallipoli, and responding to rumours of the accidental shelling of Allied troops. 19pp.

Letters to Godley from FM Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, mainly brief notes of acknowledgment of congratulations on the performance of the Canadian Corps and 3 Army during World War One, and Byng's promotion to FM in 1932. 15pp.

Letters to Godley from Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, notably the Chairmanship of the Royal Empire Society, including discussion relating to various candidates; business relating to the amalgamation of Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, and the Imperial Service College, Westward Ho!, Devon, of which both men were governors. 28pp.

Letters to Godley from Gen Sir Redvers Henry Buller, notably Buller's opinion that the Mounted Infantry should not become disconnected from the general infantry forces of the army. 5pp.

Letters to Godley from HRH Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, notably arranging a visit to the Serrapeum, Egypt, 1916, and thanks for a copy of Godley's biography Life of an Irish Soldier (John Murray, London, 1939), 1939. 2pp.