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Ordinance Survey map, 'France', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2743, sheet 51 B). Showing area around Arras France Scale 1:40,000. 2 copies.

Ordinance Survey map of Belgium, 'Namur', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2364, edition 2). Scale 1:100,000.

Ordinance Survey map, 'France', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2743, sheet 36c). Showing area around Lens, France. Scale 1:40,000.

Ordinance Survey map, 'Soissons', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2364). Showing area around Soissons, France. Scale 1:100,000.

Ordinance Survey map, 'North West Europe, (War Office, GS/GS, no 2733, sheet 1). Showing French border with Belgium. Scale 1:250,000.

Ordinance Survey map of Belgium, Liege', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2364). Scale 1:100,000.

Ordinance Survey map, 'The Advance to Le Cateau', (War Office, GS/GS, no 3761). Showing area around Le Cateau, France. Scale 1:40,000.

Ordinance Survey map of Belgium, 'Arlon', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2364). Scale 1:100,000.

Ordinance Survey map, 'France', (War Office, GS/GS, no 2738, sheet 10). With marked additions of the advance to the Aisne of the BEF, 5-13 Sep 1914.. Scale 1:250,000.

Report on the Staff Conference held at the Staff College, Camberley, 13 to 16 January 1930 (HMSO, London)

Pamphlet, 'Blackpool Grammar School War Memorial Foundation, twelfth annual memorial lecture, delivered by General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam G.C.B, D.S.O, O.B.E' (Blackpool Grammar School, Blackpool, 1955). Lecture entitled 'The United Nations Organisation and world security'. 12pp.

Undated sketches showing layout of trenches on Western Front from World War One.

Booklet, 250 Years of the Royal Artillery, 1716-1966 (1966). 1 vol.

File containing press cuttings, mostly referring to Adam's service as General Officer commanding, Northern Command.

Papers prepared for APWPC (Armistice and Post War Planning Committee) on Army Education, mainly relating to post-war Army education; the future of the Army Educational Corps and militia education. 15pp.

Personal photograph album focusing Adam's service from 1940-1946, and his roles as General Officer Commanding, Northern Command and Adjutant General to the Forces. Includes photographs of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister; Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, FM Sir Bernard Law Montgomery; FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1 Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough and Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, Germany. 1 vol.

Manuscript diary describing Adam's service in World War One with Royal Artillery in Italy. Including his involvment in Piave offensive, Jun 1918, and Vittorio Veneto, Oct 1918.

Manuscript diary describing Adam's service in World War One with Royal Artillery in France and Italy. From April 1916, describes action around Amiens, France. Returns to Britain on 3 Sep 1916 after catching a fever. Returns toWestern Front May 1917 at Vimy Ridge. Stationed to Italian-Austrian Front, Nov 1917, at Clerganzi, near Vicenza, Italy, to defend the Caporetto offensive. Attack on Tomba, Austria-Hungary, 31 Dec, 1917, 1460 prisoners taken.

File containing containing various papers including copies of the journal of The Dunkirk Veterans Association; manuscript by Adam, 'The Arms Race', 1958, describing relations between USA and USSR from 1945 to the mid-1950s and the threat of nuclear war; typescript by Adam, 'Le Cateau Tour', France, 1914, detailing the battle.