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File mostly containing typescripts of lectures including address by FM Sir Phillip W Chetwode, Commander-in-Chief, India, to students of the Staff College Quetta, 1934 Oct, and script of broadcast talk entitled, 'What is Courage ?', by General William Slim, Commandant, Imperial Defence College, 24 Nov 1946. 1 file.

Papers relating to message recorded by Chater for broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation, Somali Service, Dec 1958, including typescript copy of message broadcast, and typescript correspondence between Chater and Mark W Dodd, African Service, British Broadcasting Service, Bush House, London. 3pp.

Papers from Chater's service as Officer Commanding Somaliland Camel Corps, relating to possible attack on British Somaliland by Italian forces, including typescript draft report by Maj Gen Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen, General Officer Commanding British Somaliland, entitled 'Report on the military operations in the Somaliland Protectorate in 1940', covering the military situation in Somaliland from 1935 to the Italian invasion of Somaliland and evacuation of Allied personnel in Aug 1940. 1 file.

A General Survey of the Somaliland Protectorate, 1944-1950, by John A Hunt, (1951, London). 1 vol.

Cutting from The Times, 20 Aug 1940, describing the conquest of British Somaliland by Italian forces, and cutting from The Sphere, 17 Aug 1940, entitled 'Italy's forces in Ethiopia'. 2pp.

Photographs mostly of the unveiling of the Sudan Defence Force War Memorial, Khartoum, Sudan, 1951. 1 file.

File containing photographs taken during Chater's service with the Somaliland Camel Corps, 1937-1940, including photographs of Somaliland Camel Corps troops undertaking exercises, and aerial photographs showing Somalialnd Camel Corps defences around Tug Argan Gap, Somaliland. 1 file.

File containing photographs taken during Chater's service with Camel Corps, 1927-1930, photographs of Somaliland Scouts taken during Chater's service as Col Commandant Somaliland Scouts, [for collection] entitled 'Their Symbol The Spear', by Capt Allan Digby, 1948-1958 and untitled negatives. 1 file.

File mostly containing photographs of Somaliland after the re-occupation by Allied forces, Dec 1940, including photographs of Mess of Military Governor and staff of British Somaliland, Hargeisla, British Somaliland; also including photographs taken during Chater's service with Sudan Camel Corps, 1927-1930; collected pamphlets written by FM Bernard Law Montgomery, Officer Commanding, 21 Army Group, entitled 'High Command in War', 'The Armoured Division in War', 'Some notes on the use of Air Power in support of Land Operations and Direct Air Support' and 'Some notes on the Conduct of War and the Infantry Division in Battle', 1944-1945; Ordnance Survey map, 'The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (1928, War Office, GS/GS 2692), scale 1:3,000,000; and photographic negatives taken during Chater's service with Camel Corps, 1927-1930. 1 file.

File containing photographs of Somaliland Scouts taken during Chater's service as Col Commandant Somaliland Scouts, [for collection] entitled 'Their Symbol The Spear', by Capt Allan Digby, 1948-1958. 1 vol.

Papers relating to Chater's membership of the Anglo-Somali Society, including typescript lists of members and minutes of meetings of the Anglo-Somali Society, and typescript correspondence relating to the society between Chater and John J Lawrie, Honorary Secretary, Anglo-Somali Society. 1 file.

Typescript papers relating to Chater's service as Honorary Colonel Commandant Camel Corps, including Sudan Defence Annual Record, 1 Jul to 30 Jun 1952; Sudan Defence Force Records, Jul 1952 to Jun 1953 and list of soldiers in Sudan Defence Force, Jul 1953. 1 file.

File containing papers relating to Chater's visit to French Commemoration for D-Day landings, Bayeux, France, 5 Jun 1950, including Chater's invitation, and menu. 1 file.

Papers relating to Chater's service as Officer Commanding, Chatham Group Royal Marines, including typescript notes of lectures delivered by Chater to Chatham Group Royal Marines; typescript notes by Chater relating to training of Royal Marine recruits, conduct of Military Training Instructors, and weapon training; and typescript notes regarding Chatham Group Royal Marines, written by Chater for his successor. 1 file.

Papers relating to Chater's service as Director of Combined Operations, India and South-East Asia, including typescript directive to Chater from Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, General Officer Commanding India, 12 Dec 1944, outlining Chater's responsibilities as Director of Combined Operations; typescript notes by Chater on types of amphibious assaults possible in South-East Asia; typescript flowchart of organisation of Directorate of Combined Operations, India and South-East Asia; typescript note on Combined Operation training of Allied forces for Operation ZIPPER (Allied operation to capture Port Swettenham, Malaya, and Port Dickson, Malaya), 18 Aug 1945; and typescript notes by Chater on Operation LIGHTNING (Allied assault on Akyab Island, Burma), 3 Jan 1945. 1 file.

Papers relating to Chater's association with the Middle East Combined Training Centre, Kabrit, Sudan, including typescript correspondence between Chater and Brig Bernard E Ferguson, Combined Operations Headquarters, requesting Chater's recollections of the Combined Training Centre, Nov 1945; typescript notes by Chater on the Middle East Combined Training Centre, during the period Mar-Jul 1943, and typescript training instructions and exercises from the Middle East Combined Training Centre. 1 file.

Papers mostly relating to Chater's service as Military Governor and Commander Troops, British Somaliland, May 1941-Feb 1943, including typescript order appointing Chater as Military Governor, British Somaliland, 9 May 1941; typescript report by Chater entitled, 'Report on Minor Operations in British Somaliland, Apr - May 1941', detailing operations after the reoccupation of British Somaliland by Allied troops; manuscript notes by Chater on a visit to the Sudan, typescript correspondence between Chater and Chief Political Officer, Political Branch, East Africa Command, Nairobi, relating to the formation of battalions made up of Somali soldiers, and supplements to The London Gazette, 1946 Jun-1946 Jul, drawn from despatches by Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, General Officer Commanding, Middle East, describing Allied Operations in the Somaliland Protectorate and East Africa, 1939-1941. 1 file.