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Papers relating to 'First Army Maintenance Project No. 7', Oct 1942, concerning Operation TORCH, the Anglo-American landings in French Morocco and Algeria, Nov, 1942, including administrative orders, detailing plan of operation; administrative intelligence summaries detailing general information about Algeria and maps of the area around Algiers, Algeria and Philippeville, Algeria, (scale 1:200,000) annotated to show operational positions.

File of papers concerning the Advanced Mechanical Course, Military College of Science, Woolwich: letter from Assistant Commandant, Military College of Science, Woolwich, to Lewis, requesting comments on Advanced Mechanical Course, Military College of Science, Woolwich, 8 Aug 1933; syllabuses, Advanced Mechanical Course, Military College of Science, Woolwich 1925-1929; comments by Lewis and others on the 7th Advanced Mechanical Course, Military College of Science, Woolwich (1932 Sep - 1933 Sep), 11 Sep 1933.

File of papers entitled 'Disposal - Last War No. 90/5', containing two letters from Maj Gen Sir Evan Gibb to Lt Gen Sir Humfrey Gale, Feb 1944 on the need for a disposals organisation to exist before the end of hostilities and enclosures including report of London Chamber of Commerce, 'Disposal of surplus stores after the war', submitted to the Government in Dec 1941 and official report, 'Progress in collection and disposal of government stores and salved material in France and Belgium from November 1918 to June 1919'. 1 file

Papers relating to the contribution of the Department of Finance and Administration to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's work in the European Region, 1947. 1 file

Papers relating to the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1947-1948, including a confidential note by Lewis in which he discusses a theoretical administrative problem which is of relevance to the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; 30 Jul 1947, memorandum on currencies handled by European Regional Office, 23 Oct 1947;extract from letter dated 23 Dec 1947 from Director General United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to Lewis in his capacity as Personal Representative of Director General, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration thanking Lewis for making the London Accounting Conference a success, and admitting an error of judgement in thinking that Lewis should not have attended. 1 file

Papers relating to the administrative reorganisation of the Allied Forces in Italy after the move of Allied Force Headquarters to Italy. G4 (B) (Allied Force Headquarters branch). Includes a summary of proposals by Gen Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Armies in Italy (15th Army Group) in a letter dated 21 Jul 1944 and recommendations made by Allied Force Headquarters, 7 Aug 1944 . 1 file

Twenty photographic negatives of sites of importance during the American Civil War

Eight photographic negatives of the Villa Jacques Germain, Algiers, Algeria. (Used as a billet by British and American officers).

Staff tables, British formations'. G4 (B) (Allied Force Headquarters branch). Planning memoranda showing organisation of divisions, May 1944; vehicle entitlements for infantry and armoured divisions, tank brigades and basic corps troops , Jun 1944 and staff tables, by formation, of requirements for vehicles and stores, Apr, May 1944. 1 file

Three newspaper cuttings concerning the civil administration and conditions amongst the populace of Casablanca, Morocco and Algiers, Algeria, circulated within Allied Force Headquarters by G4 (B) (Allied Force Headquarters branch). 1 file

Typescript report entitled 'Composition du Comité' giving the composition and articles of the Comité français de la liberation nationale. 2 copies. 4pp

Typescript report sent to Intendant-General's Department, Middle East Forces, on death of Lt Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, in an air crash near Cairo, Egypt, 5 Oct 1941. Typescript and two carbon copies, with photographic negatives of crash site and site of burial. 5pp, 13 photographic negatives

Rex and Regina', a typescript short story written at Cairo, Egypt, probably by Lewis, and based on a report about the unloading of ships in Suez Roads, Egypt. The story illustrates the administrative chaos resulting from the removal of direct responsibility. 17pp

Map booklet, The Western Front at a Glance (George Philip and Son, London, [1917]), coloured maps of the fighting sectors of the Western Front, 1916-1917, 48pp, with index, 24pp.With itinerary of a visit to Western Front battlefields made in Mar 1936. 72pp

Typescript eleven-line quotation entitled 'Sir Walter Raleigh's Prayer'. 1p