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Proceedings of the Army Council', notably including an appendix on manpower for the Army, consisting of a memorandum by the Army Council replying to a request by the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, for proposals as to how to obtain more men, which comments upon the drain on manpower resources by government departments concerned with industry, and recommends the introduction of conscription to Ireland. 4pp.

Proceedings of the Army Council', giving a review of the manpower situation, notably the shortages of infantry, the failure to extract the required number of men from trade and industry at home, and the need for changes in the legislation in order to combat the difficulties of maintaining the strengths of the Army. 2pp.

Proceedings, in French, of the First Session of the Allied Chantilly Conference on 6 Dec. 10pp.

Proceedings, in French, of the Second Session of the Allied Chantilly Conference on 7 Dec. 8pp.

Proceedings, in French, of the Third Session of the Allied Chantilly Conference on 8 Dec. 10pp.

Proof and final copy of a printed General Staff and Admiralty War Staff memorandum entitled 'The present and prospective situation in Syria and Macedonia', with regard to possible Turkish operations there. 22pp.

Handwritten report by Capt Alan Ian Percy, Earl Percy, Intelligence Department, General Staff, War Office, giving an account of action taken with regard to the proposed postponement of a conference in Chantilly, France, and the possibility of substitute conference taking place in Russia. 5pp.

Report by FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, for FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, emphasising the need for a constant supply of troops and ammunition on the Western Front, and requesting information concerning the dispatch of further divisions of the first New Army, in order to concert plans with the French. 3pp.

Report by FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, giving his views on the military situation in France and Belgium, including descriptions of combined operations by the British and the French, and the need for adequate reinforcements of troops and ammunition. 6pp.

Report by Maj Gen Sir Ronald Charles Maxwell, Inspector General of Communications, British Armies in France, giving the average offensive and defensive expenditure of artillery ammunition per gun per day during the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Festubert and Ypres on the Western Front. 1p.

Report by Robertson following a recent conference between French Gen Robert Georges Nivelle, Commander in Chief, French Armies on the Western Front, and FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, outlining and commenting upon the plan of operation for the Nivelle offensive on the Western Front, noting that it will render impossible the British desire for an offensive in Flanders, and warning against beginning operations before all the Allies are sufficiently prepared. 12pp.

Report by the General Staff, British Armies in France, discussing the question of whether the Germans would attack the French or British Army should they succeed in driving the Russian Army back to the Galacian frontier. 5pp.

Report by the General Staff, British Armies in France, on the various strengths of the enemy forces, notably the number of German fighting troops, reserves, rifles and artillery guns on the Western and Eastern Fronts; the estimated strength of the German Army between Grenay [?Graine, Italy] and the sea, and between Grenay and the Swiss frontier; the transfer of German units from the Western to the Eastern Front in 1915; the estimated strength and firepower of the Italian, Serbian, Turkish, Austrian and Russian armies. 12pp.

Report by the General Staff, British Armies in France, giving the total strength of the Allied armies on the Western Front. 1p.

Report by the General Staff, British Armies in France, giving the total strength of the French Army on the Western Front, and its distribution at the time of the Arras offensive, May 1915. 1p.

Report by the General Staff, British Armies in France, giving a comparison of British and German strengths on the Western Front. 1p.

Pre-war papers and correspondence, 1898-1914, including lectures, texts and notes written whilst Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey. Papers relating to his service as Quartermaster General to the BEF (British Expeditionary Force), Western Front, 1914-1915, including correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Stanley Brenton von Donop, Master General of the Ordnance, and Maj Gen Sir John Steven Cowans, Quartermaster General to the Forces, relating to supplies of equipment, provisions and munitions. Papers and correspondence, 1915, as Chief of General Staff, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), Western Front, principally comprising reports and memoranda prepared for the War Office and the War Council by General Headquarters Staff, 1915; memoranda relating to general military strategy, 1915, notably in the Balkans, Dardanelles, Gallipoli and Egypt; papers in French concerning the Allied Conference at Chantilly, 1915. Papers relating to service as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War One, 1915- 1918, principally comprising Army Council and War Cabinet papers relating to manpower, 1915-1918; papers of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, given to Robertson following Kitchener's death in Jun 1916; personal telegrams, 1916- 1917, mainly comprising unofficial messages to and from various army commanders and military attachés in Salonika, Russia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Italy, Romania, Palestine and the Western Front; memoranda and papers on military operations in the Middle East, 1915-1917, and general strategy, 1917-1918, prepared by Robertson for the War Cabinet; documents relating to the creation of the Allied Supreme War Council, and its various powers and functions, 1917-1918. Papers created as Commander in Chief, Eastern Command and Home Forces, 1918-1919, consisting of inspection reports of various depots and units in the UK, and general correspondence. Papers created as General Officer Commanding in Chief, BAOR (British Army of the Rhine), 1919-1920, including printed memoranda by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Allied Supreme Commander on the Western and Italian Fronts, on the conditions required to ensure peace in Europe, 1918-1919; papers relating to the organisation and functions of the British Zone of Occupation in Germany, 1919; correspondence with Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Secretary of State for War, and Maj Gen Sir Charles 'Tim' Harington Harington, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1919; inspection reports of BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) units, 1919. Private correspondence, mainly relating to Robertson's work during World War One, including correspondence with Lt Col Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, Private Secretary to HM King George V, 1914-1918; Maj Gen Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations at the War Office, 1915; Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, Chief of the Imperial General Staff and General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1915-1916; the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War, 1916, and Prime Minister, 1916-1918; FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, 1915-1918; Maj Gen Frederick (Barton) Maurice, Director of Military Operations at the War Office, 1917-1918; and the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Secretary of State for War, 1919-1920. Also including correspondence, memoranda and notes concerning the events leading up to the resignation of Robertson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in Feb 1918, dated Jan-Feb 1918. Semi-official papers and private correspondence, 1915-1918, collected by Brig Gen Cecil Courtenay Lucas, Robertson's Aide de Camp, mainly comprising correspondence between Robertson and Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, Gen Sir Beauchamp Duff, Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, and Gen Sir Edward Henry Hynman Allenby, relating to military operations in India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918; Lt Col Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Secretary to the War Cabinet and the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1916-1917; Lt Gen the Rt Hon Jan Christian Smuts, South African Representative on the British War Cabinet, 1917; Gen Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, Governor General of the Sudan, 1916, and High Commissioner of Egypt, 1917; and Lt Col Charles A'Court Repington, Military Correspondent of The Times, 1916-1917. General correspondence with various on military matters, 1916-1918, including Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, Lt Gen George Francis Milne, French Gen Robert Georges Nivelle, Italian Gen Luigi Cadorna, Lt Gen Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, and Gen Sir Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer.