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ALANBROOKE, FM Alan Francis (1883-1963)
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ALANBROOKE, FM Alan Francis (1883-1963)

ALANBROOKE, FM Alan Francis (1883-1963)

  • ALANBROOKE
  • Collection
  • 1906-1968

Manuscript diaries, 1939-1946, notably covering his command of 2 Corps, BEF, France and Belgium, 1939-1940, his service as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, 1940-1941, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1941-1946, with detailed accounts of meetings and conversations, and comments on personalities. Detailed unpublished memoirs, 1883-1946, written in [1946-1960]. Personal files, 1940-1946, principally comprising copies of official and semi-official correspondence with FM Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, 1942-1945, relating to his commands of 8 Army, Middle East, 1942-1943, and 21 Army Group, North West Europe, 1944-1945; with FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, 1940-1945, relating to his commands in the Middle East, 1940-1941, and India, 1941-1945; with FM Sir (Henry) Maitland Wilson, 1943-1945, relating to his commands in the Middle East, 1943-1944, and as head of British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, 1944-1945; with FM Hon Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1942-1945, relating to his commands in the Middle East, 1942-1943, and Italy, 1943-1944, and the Mediterranean, 1944-1945; with Lt Gen Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 1942-1945, relating to his commands in North Africa, 1942-1944, and East Africa, 1945; with Adm Lord Louis (Francis Arthur Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943-1945; with FM Sir John Greer Dill, head of British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, 1941-1944; with Lt Gen Frederick Arthur Montagu Browning, Chief of Staff, South East Asia Command, 1944-1945; with Lt Gen Herbert Lumsden, South West Pacific Area, 1944; with Lt Gen Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar, 1942; and with Gen Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish Forces, 1941-1943. Papers relating to his role as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1941-1946, dated 1940-1951, notably including conference papers for Combined Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943-1945; semi-official correspondence with Lt Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 1940-1945, relating to Auchinleck's commands in Norway, India and the Middle East, 1940-1945. Other papers relating to his life and career, 1897-1963, dated 1897-1966, 1992-1993, including letters to his mother, 1906-1920, notably covering his service in India, 1906-1914 and France and Belgium, 1914-1918; texts of his lectures on artillery given at Staff College, Camberley, 1923-[1926]; papers relating to his post-war activities, notably his role as Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, 1949-1963, dated 1949-1968; papers relating to ornithology, 1950-1963; published and unpublished articles collected by Alanbrooke and his wife, 1929-1967; texts of his speeches and broadcasts, 1944-1962; photographs, [1902-1963], 1978, 1992, mainly official photographs of Alanbrooke as Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1941-1942. Papers collected by Mrs M C Long in preparation for the writing of Alanbrooke's biography, dated 1954-1958, notably including texts of interviews with friends and colleagues, 1954-1958. Correspondence relating to Alanbrooke's papers and Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant's books Turn of the tide (Collins, London, 1957) and Triumph in the West (Collins, London, 1959) (both based on Alanbrooke's diaries), dated 1951-1968. Correspondence of FM (Richard) Michael (Power) Carver, Baron Carver, relating to erection of Alanbrooke statue in Whitehall in 1993, dated 1991-1993

Brooke, Alan Francis, 1883-1963, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, Field Marshal

Artillery lectures by Brooke, 1923, with related papers, [1914]-1925

Typescript texts of lectures on artillery, delivered by Brooke to Senior Division, Staff College, Camberley, 1923. Subjects covered include artillery power, the organisation of artillery command, artillery intelligence, artillery in attack, counter battery work, super artillery and artillery in the defence. With related papers, notably photographs of railway guns, [1914-1918];'Super-heavy flat trajectory guns', English translation of part of German Army manual, 1917, issued by General Staff (Intelligence), General Headquarters, France, 1918; offprint of 'The long range gun', text of lecture by Maj John Francis Richard Norman Maitland-Addison, delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution, 1918, extracted from the Royal Artillery Journal, vol 45 no 4, [1918]; typescript copy of statement, 21 Jan 1919, by S M Cleave, Commander, 471 Siege Battery, on shelling of Douai, France, [1918]; typescript notes [by Brooke] on lectures on counterbattery tactics by Maj Penrose and Lt Col [Archibald Henry] Moberly, [1919-1923]; cutting on 'Big Bertha', German long-range gun, from The Times Engineering Supplement, Apr 1920; summary of lecture on artillery in the defence, adapted from earlier lectures, 1923-1924, and delivered by Brooke to Junior Division, Staff College, Camberley, 1925.

Artillery lectures by Brooke, 1925

Texts of lectures on artillery, delivered by Brooke to Junior Division, Staff College. Subjects covered include weapons, organisation, ammunition, gunnery, brigade and battery tactics, close-support weapons and anti-tank tactics, cooperation with aircraft, artillery in the attack, artillery in the defence, and artillery at the Battle of Le Cateau, 1914. With related exercise papers and programmes of visits and demonstrations.

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