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Copy of FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig's final dispatch (No 8) as Commander-in-Chief of British Armies in France and Flanders, describing the advance of the British Forces into Germany and the occupation of the bridgehead east of the Rhine at Cologne. 79pp.

A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: July 1917 - Oct 1918. London: HMSO.

Anglo Russian News Bulletin, 13 and 27 Aug and Soviet War News, published by the Soviet Embassy in London, 6 Dec 1941.

Booklet of three articles by Maj Gen A G L McNaughton 'The development of artillery in the great war', 'Counter battery work' and 'The capture of Valenciennes'.

Captured and translated German documents including 'the construction of defensive positions', by Gen Sixt Von Armin, 18 Aug 1917; 'Construction of positions for the coming winter', 5 Sep 1917; 'the reorganisation of the French Company', 15 Sep 1917; 'The experience gained during the English-French offensive, Spring 1917', 15 Oct 1917; 'New defensive tactics', 30 Oct 1917; divisional and regimental orders for the enemy's attack on British 33rd division, Polygon Wood, Belgium, 25 Sep 1917; divisional orders for 5th Guard Infantry Brigade, 29 Sep 1917 and 227 Infantry Div, 1 Oct 1917 and Army order of the German Fourth Army, Oct 1917. 9 items

Appointments and awards issued to John Greer Dill 1901-1919, comprising commission as 2 Lt, 1901; Distinguished Service Order certificate; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George certificate; programme for the presentation of awards by HRH Prince Edward to 2 Bn, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment where Dill received the 1914 Star medal, 6 Feb 1920; and letter from Lt Gen Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland granting Dill permission to wear the First Class of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 16 Jul 1941. 5 items.

Letters, telegrams and cards of congratulations to Lady Nancy Isabelle Cecil Furlong (née Charrington) Dill on her marriage to John Greer Dill. 57 items. 104 pp.

Copies of personal letters from John Greer Dill to Sir Archibald Percival Wavell with list of contents. Copies were made by Wavell's son and sent to Lady Dill. 17 items. 67pp.

Copies of papers of Gen George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff, US Army, relating to his friendship with John Greer Dill including personal correspondence with Dill and Lady Nancy Isabelle Cecil Furlong (neé Charrington) Dill; transcript of Dill's speech at Yale University, 16 Feb 1944; transcript of speech by Dill to Overseas Press Club of America, 26 Feb 1942; letter from Ashford General Hospital regarding Dill's condition following a heart attack; order of burial for Dill; copy of Joint Resolution of Congress sent from Franklin D Roosevelt, President of USA to Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, 10 Jan 1945, and correspondence relating to Dill memorial. 41 items. 93 pp.

Carbon copies of telegrams between Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin including telegram from Stalin to Churchill requesting the British cause a diversion in France to take German troops away from the Eastern Front, 3 Sep 1941; with correspondence between Churchill and Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, and reply from Churchill to Stalin dismissing the possibility, 4-5 Sep 1941 and telegram from Churchill to Stalin on sending Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell and Gen Bernard Charles Tolver Paget to meet with Stalin, on supplies, and on whether Britain should declare war on Finland, Hungary and Rumania, 4 Nov 1941; copy of reply from Stalin to Churchill responding to these issues and commenting on the lack of clarity in Anglo-Soviet relations, 12 Nov 1941.

Correspondence between John Greer Dill as General Officer Commanding British Troops in Palestine and Transjordan and FM Sir Cyril John Deverell, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, relating to the Arab Revolt, Palestine. 26 items. 71pp.

Correspondence as General Officer Commanding 1 Corps, British Expeditionary Force on 1 Corps operations, including reports to HM King George VI on the activities of 1 Corps, 10 Oct 1939, 22 Oct 1939, 8 Nov 1939, Dec 1939, 24 Jan 1940, 28 Feb 1940, 29 Mar 1940, with replies from the Private Secretary to the Sovereign, Alexander Hardinge; carbon copies of letters to FM John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, 11 Nov 1939, 20 Jan 1940 and 8 Mar 1940; and Lt Gen Alan Francis Brooke, Commander 2 Corps, Mar 1940; conclusions of survey of the general situation, 17 Oct 1939 and letter from Lt Gen Sir Henry Royds Pownall, 25 Mar [1940]. 19 items. 46pp.

John Greer Dill's correspondence relating to operations in Narvik, Norway during his service as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, largely from Gen Pierse Joseph Mackesy including correspondence on William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and 12th Earl of Orrery; letter from Dill to Sir Samuel Hoare and Winston S Churchill congratulating them on the safe withdrawal from Central Norway, 5 May 1940; letters on Brigadier Hogg's decision to evacuate Aandalsnes, Norway; letter to Lt Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck on operational control of air defense resources at Narvik, 13 May 1940; correspondence with Gen Pierse Joseph Mackesy and letter from Mackesy's wife on his damaged reputation, 10-14 Aug 1940.

Correspondence between John Greer Dill from his tour of the Mediterranean and Lt Gen Robert H Haining, Vice Chief of Imperial General Staff. Telegrams from Dill are signed by his assistant Brigadier Aubertin Walter Sothern Mallaby, Deputy Director of Military Operations.

Correspondence of Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander of British forces in the Middle East, on the Middle East including official and personal correspondence between Auchinleck and John Greer Dill, 20 Jan-7 Nov 1941; Auchinleck's comments on the Minister of State's questionnaire on strategy, 6 Sep 1941; official correspondence between Auchinleck and Prime Minister, Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Aug, 16 Sep, and 17-18 Oct 1941, and correspondence between Dill and Churchill on the Middle East, 27 Oct 1941. 35 items. 134pp.

Semi-official correspondence between John Greer Dill and Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell on the Middle East including letter from Wavell on situation in Middle East, 5 Jun 1940; correspondence on Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax sending secret information indiscreetly to his sons and son-in-law in Palestine, Nov 1940; letter from Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell on the Middle East enclosing forecast of possible developments over the following six months in Egypt, Western Desert, Palestine, Cyprus, Sudan and Kenya, Aden and Somaliland, Iraq and Crete, 27 Nov 1940; letter from Dill to Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill enclosing a personal letter from Wavell to Dill on his doubts about operation COMPASS and reply from Churchill expressing concerns about Wavell not utilising his full force in the Middle East, 6 Dec 1940; correspondence on the possibility of offering Armistice terms to the Italians in Italian East Africa, 10 Dec 1940; letter from Wavell to Dill reporting on the situation in the Middle East including in Greece, Cyrenaica, Palestine, Crete and Cyprus, [Apr 1941]; correspondence on Tobruk, operation BRUISER and operation EXPORTER, May 1941; on operation BATTLEAXE, (second British attempt to relieve the Axis siege of Tobruk 15-17 Jun 1941), and it's failure, 10-20 Jun 1941 and on replacing Wavell with Lt Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck as Commander of British forces in the Middle East, May 1941.

Semi-official correspondence between Lt Gen Sir Henry Royds Pownall, Chief of the General Staff for the British Expeditionary Force and Lt Gen Hugh Royds Stokes Massey, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff on the British Expeditionary Force in France. 28 ff.

Semi-official correspondence between Lt Gen Sir Henry Royds Pownall, Chief of the General Staff for the British Expeditionary Force and Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff on the British Expeditionary Force in France. 25 ff.

37 Div operational orders for an attack on the Hindenburg Line compiled by John Greer Dill, including notes on training, artillery bombardment, tactical questions and communication. 12 items. 42pp.

Papers, 1814, 1857-1963, of Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill and his family. Papers relating to Dill's family and family estates date largely from 1857-1953, but include press cuttings, 1814. The collection mainly comprises papers, telegrams and photographs relating to Dill's life and military career, dating from 1901-1944 but particularly from 1914 onwards, and includes correspondence and other papers concerning his service as General Staff Officer 1, 37 Division, and General Staff Officer 1, Operations Branch, General Headquarters, British Armies in France, Western Front, World War One, 1917-1918, notably instructions to 37 Division, 1917; 15 Division Operational Orders for the Battle of Arras, 1917. Official and some personal correspondence and notes, 1916-1939, including record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1919; lecture notes relating to Dill's service as Chief Instructor, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1920, and to his promotion to Lt Gen, 1936; letters from Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Maj Gen Sir Sydney Frederick Muspratt, Maj Gen Arthur Cecil Temperley, and Maj Gen John Dudley Laverack, 1926-1939; correspondence with Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, relating to Dill's service as General Officer Commanding, Palestine and Transjordan, Sep 1936-Jul 1937. Official correspondence relating to Dill's command of 1 Army Corps France and Belgium, 1939-1940, principally including correspondence between Maj Gen Sir Henry Royds Pownall, Chief of General Staff British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and Lt Gen Ronald Forbes Adam, General Officer Commanding 3 Army Corps, Sep-Oct 1939; correspondence between Dill and Maj Gen Hugh Royds Stokes Massy, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff. and Chief of General Staff Maj Gen Henry Royds Pownall, Oct 1939; correspondence with US Gen George Catlett Marshal, Chief of Staff US Army, relating to Joint Planning Committee, Mar 1940; correspondence on liaison arrangements between the French and British armies in France, Oct 1939, and letter to Dill as Chief of Imperial General Staff, from Lt Gen Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, Nov 1940. Typescript report relating to imposition of economic sanctions against Ireland due to the refusal of permission for the use of Irish ports by the Royal Navy, Nov-Dec 1940, with letter from Maj Gen Hubert Jervoise Huddleston, General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District, to Gen Bernard Paget, Chief of Staff, Home Forces, explaining the need for an appreciation of the political situation in Ireland, Jun 1940. Semi-official letters, diaries and notes to Dill as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office, London, 1940-1941, including letter from Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain, Lord President of the Council, Aug 1940, official diary of tour of the Mediterranean, Feb-Apr 1941, correspondence congratulating promotion to Field Marshal, 1941; copy of personal minutes of Prime Minister, Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, May 1941; notes on Dill's visit to Paris, France, with Prime Minister Churchill, including diary of events, May 1940; typescript notes on telephone conversation with Rt Hon (Robert) Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, Nov 1940; correspondence with Field Marshal Rt Hon Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Pretoria, South Africa, Nov 1941,Gen Bernard (Charles Tolver) Paget, Commander in Chief Home Forces, Nov 1941, Lt Gen Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland, Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, Nov 1941. Letters and notes relating to Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander-in-Chief India, including notes on operations in Greece, the defence of Egypt, Palestine and Crete, Sep 1941, and personal letter from Lt Gen Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Command, regarding Prime Minister Churchill's negative attitude to Gen Wavell, May 1941. Four albums of photographs relating to Placentia Bay Conference, Newfoundland, Canada, Aug 1941, official visit to Canada, Aug-Sep 1943, and the Casablanca Conference, code name SYMBOL, Jan 1943, including the Prime Minister, Churchill, aboard HMS PRINCE OF WALES and aboard USS AUGUSTA 1941.