Showing 42345 results

Typescript report from War Office to Hamilton, listing quantities of engineer stores (corrugated iron, cement, timber, wire netting and entanglement) dispatched to Gallipoli, with names and sailing dates of carrying ships, 24 Apr-3 Nov 1915. 3pp

Press releases and papers issued by the War Office, 1953-1956, including senior military appointments and biographical notes on Maj Gen (James Newton) Rodney Moore, Lt Gen Sir Charles Falkland Loewen, Maj Gen Joseph Howard Nigel Poett, Lt Gen Sir Francis Leycester Festing, Gen George (Watkin Ebden James) Erskine, Gen Sir Gerald (Walter Robert) Templer, Gen Sir (E C) Robert Mansergh; monthly statistics on recruitment, arranged by corps and regiment; 'Future management of the Suez Canal Base' statement issued by the War Office, 20 Oct 1954; notes on the history of the Victoria Cross, for centenary celebrations, Nov 1955. 1 file

Press releases and papers issued by the War Office, 1948-1952, including text of speeches by FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein in Aug 1948 at Blackpool, Lancashire on National Service and at Blackpool and Fylde Agricultural Show on food production targets; senior military appointments and biographical notes, including Gen Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, Gen Sir Allan Francis (John) Harding, Lt Gen John Francis Martin Whiteley, Lt Gen Sir Robert Mansergh and Gen Sir Brian Hubert Robertson; schedules for army manoeuvres and exercises, including MERRY WIDOW, involving assault crossings of the Thames at Pangbourne, Berkshire, Sep 1951; list of personnel involved in the trial of FM Fritz von Manstein in Hamburg, Aug 1949; recruitment statistics for the Territorial Army, 1949-1950; text of broadcast for BBC Home Service 'The mark of greatness' by FM Sir William Joseph Slim, Jan 1951. 1 file

War Office press releases on Territorial Army monthly recruiting statistics including anti-aircraft units, covering establishments, new intakes and strengths. 1 file

War Office press releases mainly on the army, notably recruitment, including the Military Training Bill and the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Bill, May-Jun 1939; conditions of service; equipment; training, including arrangements for new conscripts, Jun 1939; organisation; promotions and appointments to commands, with biographical notes; public engagements and speeches of Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, MP, Secretary of State for War; military co-operation with Poland and France; British army operations in Palestine. 1 file

War Office press releases mainly on the army, notably conditions of service, including new conditions for combatant officers, Aug 1938; officer recruitment, training, commissions and promotions, including introduction of new rank Warrant Officer Class 3, Sep 1938; training, including new army technical schools at Jersey, Fort Darland, near Chatham, and Arborfield near Reading, Jul 1938; accommodation; organisation, including formation of women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, Oct 1938; promotions and appointments to commands, with biographical notes; anti-aircraft defences, including formation of light anti-aircraft units in Territorial Army reserve, Oct 1938; public engagements and speeches by Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, MP, Secretary of State for War. 1 file

War Office press releases mainly on the army, notably conditions of service; pay and allowances; pensions; recruitment, establishments and strengths; equipment; mechanisation; training exercises, including combined forces exercises at Singapore and Malaya, Feb 1938; vocational training; organisation and administration, including reforms in the Territorial Army, Nov 1937 and artillery re-organisation, Mar 1938; promotions and appointments to commands, with biographical notes; uniform, including experimental design to be tested in 1938; annual expenditure estimates for 1937-1938; anti-aircraft defences; public engagements and speeches by Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, MP, Secretary of State for War. 1 file

War Office press releases mainly on the army, notably training; recruitment, including national service, Jan-Feb 1939, high enlistment rates for Territorial Army, Feb 1939, and opportunities for reservists to rejoin their units, Apr 1939; promotions and appointments to commands, with biographical notes; organisation, including report of the committee on the Territorial Army finance and organisation, Jan 1939, and formation of the Royal Armoured Corps, Apr 1939; political situation in Palestine and role of British forces, Jan 1939; annual expenditure estimates for 1939-1940; public engagements and speeches by Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, MP, Secretary of State for War. 1 file

War Office press releases mainly on the army and war situation, notably army food rations; conditions of service; allowances; uniform; recruitment, voluntary enlistment and conscription; censorship and restrictions on postal communications and parcels to British troops in France and Norway; promotions and appointments to commands, with biographical notes; army expenditure estimates, 1940-1941; public engagements and speeches of the Secretaries of State for War, Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, MP and, from [Jan] 1940, Oliver Frederick George Stanley; war strategy, including details of military situation in Finland and Poland; lists of German U-boat prisoners of war held in Britain. 1 file

War Office press releases mainly on the army and war situation, notably recruitment and conscription, including instructions for national mobilisation, 1 Sep 1939; conditions of service; pay and allowances; training; organisation, including formation of Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, Oct 1939, and formation of the Council of Voluntary War Work by War Office, Nov 1939; promotions and appointments to commands, with biographical notes; public engagements and speeches of Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, MP, Secretary of State for War; war strategy, including despatch of BEF to northern France, Sep 1939. 1 file

Paper on the role of the RAF produced by the General Staff of the War Office discussing the creation of the RAF in 1918, the reasons for its creation and the conflict that had developed between the Air Ministry and the Army over the Air Ministry's plans to end the dual control of the RAF in peacetime by the Air Ministry and the Army. With the General Staff's proposals for improving relations between the War Office and the Air Ministry. Typescript 17pp

Four War Office pamphlets concerning the Allied forces campaign in France, (HMSO, London, 1940). 4 items

The Cardwell reforms - a retrospect, (War Office, London, 1923). 1 pamphlet

Typescript notes [produced by the War Office] for the infantry training manual, annotated by Liddell Hart. 1 file

Army Training Memoranda issued by the War Office, 1926 and 1937-1939, including summaries of training exercises, instructions for future training, standards of Territorial Army, Supplementary Reserve and OTC (Officer Training Corps) training, developments in organisation and equipment, and replies to questions raised in Command reports on training. 8 booklets

Memorandum from War Office relating to Pyman's eligibility for retirement pay. Manuscript and typescript, 2pp

War in Peace No 99

War in Peace No 98

War in Peace No 97

War in Peace No 96 includes index to volumes 85-96.