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Warrant appointing Hamilton a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1919
Royal warrant of George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing Hamilton Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, 3 Jun 1919, with covering letter from the registrar of the Chancery of the Order, 30 Nov 1922. 1 file
WARRACK, Col Graeme Matthew (1913-1985)
Diary, 17 Sep-16 Oct 1944, covering his service at Battle of Arnhem (Operation MARKET GARDEN), with part of 'Suggested medical plan' prepared for Deputy Director of Medical Services, 1 Airborne Corps, 22 Sep 1944, and part of note relating to the strength of medical forces, [1944]. Transcript of part of above diary made by Sir Basil Liddell Hart, with related correspondence, 1949-1951. Bound transcript of above diary made by Lt Col Kenneth Garside, Honorary Keeper of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, with foreword by Warrack, 1979. The diary formed the basis of Warrack's book Travel by dark: after Arnhem (Harvill, London, 1963), and a BBC television production Arnhem: the story of an escape, originally broadcast in 1976. Typescript copy of 'The Airborne Hospital, Willem 111 Kazerne, Apeldoorn, 25th Sept 1944 to 26th Oct 1944. Nominal roll of the wounded' compiled by Peter H Starling, Curator of the Army Medical Services Museums, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1998.
Warrack, Graeme Matthew, 1913-1985, Colonel
Warning orders to LAYFORCE, May 1940, possibly in a training exercise
Warning orders sent from Gen Weston to LAYFORCE, possibly part of a training exercise. 1 item
War-game maps' by Henry T Crook, Capt, 1 Lancashire Engineer Volunteers (J E Cornish, Manchester, 1889). 1 booklet
'Warfare': 'Protection of offshore installations' by F Judd, MP, [1974 - 1976]
'Warfare': 'Protection of offshore installations' by F Judd, MP, Under Secretary of State for Defence and 'Threat to NATO's flanks' by Patrick Wall, MP.
Warfare in the Far East, military training pamphlet 52, 1944
Warfare in the Far East, military training pamphlet 52', issued by the War Office (Dec 1944). 1 booklet
Warfare: Effects of multiple warheads', [1970 - 1975]
Warfare: Effects of multiple warheads'.
Warfare: 'Civil defence: a European view', including 'Soviet Civil Defence', 1975 Spring
Warfare: 'Civil defence: a European view', including 'Soviet Civil Defence'.
Warfare: 'Changes in nuclear strategy' by Ronald King, [1972 - 1977]
Warfare: 'Changes in nuclear strategy' by Ronald King.
WARDMAN, Gp Capt Reginald Bryson (1911-1985)
One hundred and three photographs relating to Wardman's RAF service, [1932-1944], including eighty three, mostly captioned, aerial photographs of North West Frontier Province, India [1932]-1934; photographs of RAF aircraft including Westland Wapiti Mk IIA, Avro Tutor, Hawker Hector [1932-1939]; three photographs of Wardman in No 3 (Indian) Wing RAF sports teams, Quetta, India, 1934; group photograph with Wardman and RAF pilots '46th Flying Instructors Course, Central Flying School, September-December 1935'; group photograph captioned 'No 612 (County of Aberdeen) (AC) (Army Co-operation) Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, July 1938'; group photograph captioned '1935 600 City of London Fighter Squadron', group photograph captioned 'Brough [Yorkshire], January 1939', group photograph in front of Bristol Blenheim bomber [1940], Airspeed Horsa upon Salisbury plain [1944], group photograph captioned '296 Sqn Airborne Forces Headquarters', photograph of 296 Sqn badge, group photograph of RAF officers 1944, group photo of RAF Officers with Italian badge captioned 'East Colne 1945', two photographs of Handley Page Halifax bombers from towing gliders on crossing of Rhine March 24 1945, group photo of Norway visit, photo of Halifax taking off captioned ''R' for Mo, Joe' [1945], group photo captioned 'Celebration! promotion to Wg Cdr'. Also small Union flag displayed on the first British truck taken to France, and later used by the French Army, Aug 1914, (the flag originally belonged to a relative of Wardman who worked for Vulcan Motor and Engineering Company, Crossens, Southport, Lancashire).
Wardman, Reginald Bryson, 1911-1985, Group Captain
WARD-BOOTH, Maj Gen John Antony (1927-2002)
Photographs and press cuttings relating to Maj Gen John Antony Ward-Booth's career, 1946-1982, including: photographs and press cutting concerning British forces' involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations, Kasai province, Congo, 1962; LIFE International photographs and magazine article, Oct 1964, relating to the role of 3 Bn Parachute Regt in protecting the Aden-Dhala road, South Arabia, from incursions by Yemeni guerrillas, 1964; press cuttings relating to the bombing of the 16th Parachute Bde officers' mess, Aldershot, 22 Feb 1972, by the Irish Republican Army (IRA); commemorative menu for 16 Parachute Bde farewell dinner, 31 Mar 1977; order of service for Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Falklands War memorial service, Aldershot, 1 Oct 1982.
Booth, John Antony Ward-, 1927-2002, Major General
WARD, Gp Capt Ralph Bagshaw (1911-1992)
Papers and photographs relating to Ward's RAF career, 1930-1955, including photograph album containing 201 mostly captioned photographs relating to Ward's RAF service in India, 1930-1933, including RAF 11 Sqn operations against Mohmand tribesmen, North West Frontier, Mar 1932; with six loose photographs[1932]-1945, including photograph of Ward [1932]; group of RAF POWs, Stalag Luft III, Aug 1942; four aerial photographs of Hamburg and Bremen, Germany, Jul 1945. Copy of manuscript narrative diary, 1939-1942, detailing Ward's RAF service until he was shot down over Kiel, Germany, Feb 1942; copy of manuscript notes by Ward entitled 'Future training in the Royal Air Force' [1945]; six printed maps (two on linen, one on silk and two on tissue paper), of France, Danzig, Germany, Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, 1935-[1950]; printed translation of speech to the Reichstag by Adolf Hitler, 'A last appeal to reason', 19 Jul 1940; reprinted facsimile, dated 1983, of Honolulu Star Bulletin, relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, 7 Dec 1941; copies of autographs given by Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart and Kathleen Liddell Hart to Ward's son, Richard Ward, Aug 1951. Papers and photographs relating to the filming of The wooden horse, directed by Jack Lee, and Ward's role as actor and Technical Adviser, 1949-1950, including seven photographs of Ward and the film set during the making of The wooden horse, Germany, 1949; sketch map by Ward of Stalag Luft III [1949]; typescript notes by Ward entitled 'The aftermath of the wooden horse escape' [1949]; newspaper cuttings on the release of The wooden horse, 1950. Papers and photographs relating to Ward's service as Air and Military Attaché to Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador, 1952-1955, including typescript official reports by Ward relating to the air forces of Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia, Feb 1953-Sep 1955; typescript memoranda by Ward relating to diplomatic visits and journeys made in South America, Apr 1952-Oct 1955, including 'A review of living conditions in Lima, Peru' Apr 1952, 'Visit to Ecuador and northern Peru' Sep 1953, 'Journey by car from Lima to La Paz and return' Aug 1955; twenty four typescript letters home to relatives and friends, mostly to Ward's parents-in-law, Dudley and Audrey Christopherson, Jun 1952-Jul 1955; booklet entitled Operation Round Trip. The goodwill flight to South America by four English Electric Canberras of No 12 Squadron, the Royal Air Force (The English Electric Company Limited, London, 1952); twelve uncaptioned photographs of official functions, South America [1953]; twenty two colour photographs of the topography and local people, Peru [1954].
Ward, Ralph Bagshaw, 1911-1992, Group Captain
WARBURTON, Bartholomew Elliott George (1810-1852) alias Eliot Warburton
Bound volume containing manuscript letters, mostly undated, from Eliot Warburton to Arabella Sarah Colston (1822-1891) written mainly when he was in Ireland, on subjects including: poverty, emigration and mortality in Ireland due to the Great Famine; friends and family, including the death of his father George Warburton, 1845; Warburton’s perceived lack of success as a writer and doubts over the merits of his own writings, 1846; criticism of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), with transcription of an extract from the poet’s Hyperion, 1846; Warburton’s eagerness to travel again once his book commitments are out of the way, June 1846; book and periodical recommendations for Arabella; cloth samples; fundraising for the Irish poor, notably through his publication Zoe: an Episode in the Greek War (1847) and donations of money from Arabella, 1847. Volume also contains four typescript pages of biographical information on Warburton and Colston.
Warburton, Bartholomew Elliott George, 1810-1852, writer
WAR STUDIES: King's College London departmental student records
King's College London Department of War Studies, undergraduate and postgraduate student files, 1960-1995 (Ref: KDW/FP). The majority of files to date are for postgraduate MA, MPhil/PhD and research degrees, with BA files dating from 1992. Information typically includes application for admission, notification of title of thesis, application for fellowship, letters of reference, interim progress report and correspondence.
King's College London Department of War Studies
WAR STUDIES: King's College London departmental records
The records of the Department of War Studies at King's College London consists of correspondence, printed reports and programmes, 1953-1990. These comprise correspondence and papers on course structure and syllabus, with reading lists, 1958-1969; papers relating to the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and College Library, including Trustees' meetings, 1953-1971; correspondence and papers relating to research funding organisations including the Ford Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, 1962-1985; correspondence concerning conferences and seminars, with outlines of lectures and supporting materials, 1970-1989; agendas and briefing papers concerning Faculty of Arts' meetings, 1978-1982; papers and correspondence compiled by Professor Lawrence Freedman for a project on the Falklands conflict, 1982-1990 (closed); papers of the University of London Board of War Studies, 1980-1985, including on external monitoring of academic standards and the supervision of higher degrees; texts of two lectures by Professor Lawrence Freedman, including inaugural lecture, 1983-1986; papers relating to an invitation to tender for academic teaching at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1990.
King's College London Department of War Studies
War Office report, Oct 1915, on building supplies sent to Gallipoli, Apr-Nov 1915
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
War Office press releases, 1953-1956, on subjects including senior defence appointments
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 about the Territorial Army, 1938-1939
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 about the British Army, May-Jul 1939
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