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War Office press releases about the British Army, Jun 1937 - Jun 1938

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 about the British Army, Jan-Apr 1939

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 about the British Army and the war situation, Dec 1939 - Apr 1940

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 about the British Army and the war situation, Aug-Nov 1939

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

War Office paper on the role of the RAF, 1921, with proposals for improving relations between the War Office and the Air Ministry

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

War Office memos on army training, 1926-1939

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

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