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Directive from the Supreme War Council at Rapallo, Italy, directing its Permanent Military Representatives to report immediately on the present situation on the Italian Front. 1p.

Printed War Office pamphlet entitled 'His Majesty's Letters Patent constituting the Army Council (6th February, 1904), and orders in council relative to the duties, titles and precedence of members of the Army Council'. 8pp.

Printed Cabinet paper by the Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, advocating that British forces remain on the Gallipoli peninsula. 2pp.

Paper by temporary Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, for the War Cabinet, giving a summary of the preparations which are being made to prepare US units for operations in 1919, and putting forward suggestions to be made at the forthcoming Supreme War Council meeting on the subject. 4pp.

Paper by Robertson for the War Council, reporting a conversation between Robertson and US Gen John Joseph Pershing, Commander in Chief, US Expeditionary Forces in Europe, on placing American battalions in British divisions, to which proposal Pershing was opposed on various grounds. 6pp.

Paper by Robertson for the War Council on the situation in Macedonia, namely the lack of information supplied by French Gen Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, Commander in Chief, Allied Army of the Orient, to the British Government on events there, including information sent to Sarrail by Paul Painlevé, French War Minister, intelligence of a possible enemy attack on Salonika, Greece, from the Serbian Military Attaché, details of Greek political and economic problems, and estimates of the number of Allied and enemy troops on the Macedonian Front. 12pp.

Paper by Robertson for the War Council on future military policy, notably in 1918, advocating that Britain prepare for an offensive on the Western Front in the spring, and limit activities in other theatres, and especially that the question of the supply of additional manpower be investigated thoroughly. 10pp.

Paper by Robertson for the War Council on the present military situation, with reference to the peace proposals by the Central Powers, advising that peace with Germany at the present time would be disastrous to the British Empire, and predicting a large scale German attack on the Western Front early in 1918. 13pp.

Paper by Robertson for the War Council on the present military situation in Russia, and its effect on future Allied plans following a large scale Russian retreat on the Eastern Front, advising that pressure be brought to bear on the Germans on the Western Front to prevent them moving divisions to the East, and that commitments in secondary theatres should be scaled down, especially with regard to the Balkans and Salonika, Greece. 9pp.

Paper by Robertson for the War Council, answering questions on the outcome of the war, and giving his opinion that the position of the Allies would be much undermined by accepting the peace proposals of the Central Powers, and that in rejecting them, Britain should be aware of the need for more men and shipping in order to achieve further military victories. 10pp.

Paper written by Robertson for the War Council on the military effect of Russia seceding from the Entente following the Russian Revolution, especially regarding the release of enemy troops on the Eastern Front. 9pp.

Printed paper by Maj Gen James Montcrieff Grierson, Director of Military Operations, entitled 'Memorandum upon the military forces required for over-sea warfare', giving estimates as to the number of troops which should be dispatched during the first six months of theoretical conflicts with Boer South Africa, France, Germany, the US and Russia. 16pp.

Bound volume entitled 'Records of a strategic war game', prepared by the Directorate of Military Operations, General Staff, War Office, describing the preliminary work and the course of operations, and providing a summary and conclusion, for an exercise by the Directorate, under the command of Maj Gen James Moncrieff Grierson, Director of Military Operations, exploring the military protection of Belgian neutrality by Great Britain during a Franco-German war. Robertson acted as Commander of the German Forces. 1 vol.