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Anonymous Staff College paper entitled 'The true standard of our military needs', disputing the view that Russian aggression towards Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier of India is the greatest military threat faced by the British Army, and highlighting the need for a scheme for the creation of a National Army based upon European, not Asiatic, conditions. The paper is annotated by Robertson with comments upon the army reforms proposed by the Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, Secretary of State for War. 12pp.

Typescript précis of telegrams between Robertson and temporary Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, notably Murray's description of the First and Second Battles of Gaza, Palestine, and details of his requirements, including artillery, rails, engineers, signal personnel and material, military transport, and aeroplanes. 13pp.

Telegram (33) to Robertson from Brig Gen Charles Delmé-Radcliffe, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Italian Army in the Field, giving information concerning the state of the road between Santa Quaranta and Monastir, Macedonia. 1p.

Telegram (306) to Robertson from Brig Gen Charles Delmé-Radcliffe, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Italian Army in the Field, regarding the possibility of Italian involvement in a proposed Allied Balkan offensive. 1p.

Telegram (873) to Robertson from Brig Gen Charles Delmé-Radcliffe, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Italian Army in the Field, giving the opinion of Italian Gen Luigi Cadorna, Italian Army Chief of Staff, on the difficulties of coordinating an attack on the Italian front with the Nivelle offensive on the Western Front; reporting the build up of German and Austrian troops around Innsbruck and the Trentino, Austria-Hungary; requirements for the transfer of British and French troops to the Italian front. 1p.

Telegram (PH1) to Robertson from Brig Gen Philip Howell, Chief Staff Officer to Lt Gen Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, concerning internal troubles in France and the possible removal of French Gen Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Commander in Chief, French Armies on the Western Front. 1p.

Telegram (284) to Robertson from honorary Brig Gen Wallscourt Hely-Hutchinson Waters, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Imperial Russian General Headquarters, concerning Russian reactions to the French proposal that more Russian troops be sent to the Dobrudja region of Romania. 1p.

Telegram (405) to Robertson from honorary Brig Gen Wallscourt Hely-Hutchinson Waters, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Imperial Russian General Headquarters, reporting the attitude of the Russian government to British assistance with financial affairs and provision of munitions. 1p.

Telegram (316) to Robertson from Brig Gen Wallscourt Hely-Hutchinson Waters, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Imperial Russian General Headquarters, on the possibility of Russian troops being sent to aid Romania on the Dobrudja frontier. 1p.

Telegram (CBT43) to Robertson from temporary Col Christopher Birdwood Thomson, British Military Attaché to Romania, outlining the Romanian plan of campaign. 2pp.

Telegram to Robertson from FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, on the necessity of his returning to Britain to deal with military arrangements on the River Clyde, Strathclyde. 1p.

Telegram (OAD489) to Robertson from FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, agreeing to the deletion of an appendix concerning German Army strengths from his appreciation of the aims of the planned Flanders offensive (Third Battle of Ypres). 1p.

Telegram (OAD427) to Robertson from FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, giving Haig's opinion that it is useless to pursue the present Nivelle offensive on the Western Front vigorously unless the French continue to give their full support, and proposing a limited offensive for the next few weeks. 1p.

Telegram (AM1391) to Robertson from Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, recommending that a British force not be sent to Rabegh (Rabigh), in the Hedjaz, and arguing that that the possibility of the failure of the Arab Revolt must be weighed against the undesirability of committing British troops to a campaign in Arabia. 2pp.

Telegram (AM265) to Robertson from Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, concerning the appointment of Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood as the Commander of 1 ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) in France. 1p.

Telegram (AM243) to Robertson from Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, giving his opinion as to the good record of service of temporary Lt Gen Sir Alexander John Godley. 1p.

Telegram to Robertson from Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Commander in Chief in India, concerning the relative merits of temporary Lt Gen Alexander (Stanhope) Cobbe, General Officer Commanding, 1 Indian Army Corps, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, and temporary Lt Gen Sir William Raine Marshall, General Officer Commanding, 3 Indian Army Corps, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. 1p.

Telegram (AMS12) to Robertson from Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, stating that he is taking no risks with the advance towards Jerusalem, Palestine, but keeping up steady pressure on the Turks. 1p.

Telegram (A14) to Robertson from Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, explaining the reasons why he feels it is imperative for the safety of Egypt to advance to the Jerusalem-Jaffa Line in Palestine, despite Robertson's doubts as to the validity of such a move. 1p.