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Printed copies of information from the internet relating to pageant history, original folder titled Taken from the Internet by Clare Westmuckett.

Various typescript reports, comprising commentary by 'G B A' on Les Japonais en Mandchourie, volume 2,by French Col Émilien Louis Victor Cordonnier (Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris, 1913); list of territories added to the British Empire, 1870-1909; list of British military campaigns outside India, 1870-1912; list of British medals issued 1895-1912; results of a shooting competition between 12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers and Kroonstad Rifle Club, Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 24 Aug 1911. With newspaper cutting, 'Pour remédier au marasme de l'aviation militaire', article by Jean d'Orsay on Cordonnier's appointment as director of French military aviation, Le Matin,24 Jul 1913. 1 file

Air Ministry organisation charts 1921 and 1939; notes on Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote of Bristol, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence's diary, 1938-1939; manuscript notes and photocopies relating to the strength of the RAF and the German Air Force in personnel and supplies and the progress of rearmament, including papers comparing the operational strengths of British, French and German Air Forces, 1939-1945; copies of Maj Gen Sir Hastings Lionel Ismay, Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet's papers 1945-1953 referring to the decision by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill not to send any more fighter aircraft to France in Jun 1940; notes on campaigns in Syria and Persia in 1940-1941 and the battles of Alam El Halfa and El Alamein, 1942 with photocopies of figures for aircraft strength for the battles; typescript notes on 84 Sqn in Sumatra, Jan-Mar 1942 written by Flight Lt [A R] Gill; correspondence with KCLMA and Churchill College Cambridge regarding access to archives, 1974-1976; notes on the success of bombing campaigns; notes on the use of radar. 1 file

Notes, newspaper cuttings, memoranda and letters comprising background research for lectures by Brooke-Popham on Iraq, notably notes on the Saud family dynasty, the Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Jun 1930, the Iraqi Cabinet, the Iraq-Persia frontier dispute, and the RAF in Iraq; drafts of lectures by Brooke-Popham at the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and the Imperial Defence College, London; a printed copy of the Treaty of Alliance between His Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom and His Majesty the King of Iraq, with an exchange of notes, Baghdad, 30th June 1930 (HMSO, 1931); memorandum on the convention between the Iraq Petroleum Company and the Iraq Government, 24 Mar 1931; letters from Wg Cdr (Alfred) Guy (Roland) Garrod, RAF Headquarters, Iraq, on RAF operations there, including planned operations against Barzan to effect the settlement of Assyrians in the area, Mar 1932; memorandum on the situation in Iraq following a rebellion in the Middle Euphrates area by Sheikh Abdul Wahid and his followers, and the resignation of the Iraqi Government, Mar 1935; papers relating to the situation of the Assyrians in Iraq, notably their desire to be emigrated to a country under the rule of one of the Western nations to avoid persecution in Iraq, including correspondence between Brooke-Popham and Lt Col Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, High Commissioner and Commander in Chief in Iraq, on the former's meetings with Most Rev Rt Hon Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, regarding the persecution of the Assyrians, memoranda on the implementation of schemes for Assyrian resettlement in the Baradost area of Iraq, summaries of negotiations in 1917-1918 between Capt George Frederick Handel Gracey, Intelligence Staff Officer attached to the British Military Mission at Tiflis, Russia, and the Assyrians at Urmia, Persia, during World War One and the role played by them in holding positions abandoned by the Russian Army; notes on the Kurdish situation in Iraq, including the growth of Kurdish nationalism, and a draft article by Brooke-Popham on the role of the RAF in the subjugation of the Kurd rebellion in Iraq led by Sheikh Ahmed of Barzan, Sep 1932. 1 file, 46 items.

Notes on MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton and typescript of an interview with Trenchard, 11 Apr 1934; 'Strength of operational aircraft in squadrons', typescript list, 2 copies; 'Number of squadrons and aircraft established in the Metropolitan Air Force and overseas commands, Sep 1939-Jun 1944', typescript list; 'Strength of officers and other ranks (RAF, WAAF and dominion personnel) by commands, typescript list; photocopy of article 'Science and the services' by Sir Henry Thomas Tizard in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Aug 1946; photocopy from The Aeroplane, Aug 1954 on naming military aircraft; copies of articles on the aircraft 'Blackburn Botha' and 'Saro Lerwick'; photocopied extract from AVM Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood's record of service, 1957; memorandum from the Air Ministry regarding the possibility of a history of the Air Ministry being written and enclosing a list of monographs and narratives written by Air Historical Branch staff, 1963; photocopy of an article on the BE8 and BE8a, the British reconnaissance biplane used by the Royal Flying Corps from 1914 by J M Bruce in Air Pictorial, Nov 1962; typescript of a lecture by Dean to the Beaconsfield Royal Historical Society, 27 Jan 1973 on critical dates in the history of the RAF; papers relating to types of aircraft and to personnel in World War One and World War Two including booklet The Royal Air Force Museum, 100 years of aviation history (London, 1974); order of service for a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey for the 50th anniversary of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1974; extract from Aerospace magazine, Aug 1974 with an interview with ACM Sir Harry Broadhurst; note on Typex high speed cipher machine and transmissions and related letter from Ministry of Defence, 1977. 1 file

Various papers including minute to Philip Cunliffe-Lister Swinton, 1st Viscount of Masham, Secretary of State for Air from Portal, Chief of Air Staff Apr 1938 complaining about supply of funds for air re-armament; summary of operations by RAF Home Commands 1939-1945; typescript notes recording a visit to General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 20 May 1940; copy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of United States speech in support of extending aid to Britain and France, 10 Jun 1940; note on Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and 'air parity', Nov 1941; manuscript notes on the Air Ministry in 1941 including notes on talk with the MRAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Chief of Air Staff, 14 Aug 1941 regarding the supplies of bombers that would be required to defeat Germany; paper on the stages of British air re-armament, 1943; figures for merchant shipping losses, May 1943; typescript entitled 'The collapse viewed from within, the memoirs of General [Herbert Josef] Koller, the German Chief of Air Staff' relating to events from 14 Apr 1944 up to a few days after Germany's capitulation 7 May 1945; manuscript notes by Dean relating to typescript by Dennis George Richards, official historian of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, 1947-1949 regarding MRAF Sir Arthur Travers Harris' attitude to Operation OVERLORD [1975]; manuscript notes on Air Ministry files in the Public Record Office [1975]. 1 file

Research material for chapters on the Far East and the Pacific campaigns in History of the Second World War by Liddell Hart (Cassell, London, 1970; Putnam, New York, 1971), including typescript article by US Cdr Henry Effingham Eccles, commanding USS JOHN D EDWARDS, entitled 'The Java Sea battle', Jun 1942, with typescript 'Memorandum on Java Sea campaign', Jun 1960; two typescript articles by Liddell Hart entitled 'How Japan's sea shield was shattered, the Battle for Leyte Gulf' and 'How we lost the key to the Pacific-by oversight' [1954]; typescript text of lecture by US R Adm Samuel Eliot Morison entitled 'American strategy in the Pacific', Jun 1957; typescript article by Alvin D Coox entitled 'Japanese handling of the Changkufeng incident, 1938: the question of escalation', 17 Jun 1966; typescript notes by Brig Ivan Simson, Chief Engineer, Malaya, Aug-Dec 1941 and Director General of Civil Defence, Jan-Feb 1942, entitled 'Malayan campaign, 1941-1942', with related correspondence, 1967-1968; typescript copy of notes by Julian Errington Ridsdale MP, Feb 1968; typescript notes by Paul Michael Kennedy entitled 'The over-running of the South-West Pacific, Dec 1941-May 1942' [1969]; manuscript notes by Kennedy including 'Operations in the Pacific after the Pearl Harbor attack', 'The fall of Hong Kong', 'Malaya and Singapore operations', 'The fall of the Philippines', 'Japanese invasion of British Borneo', 'Burma', 'The Japanese naval offensive against Ceylon, Mar-Apr 1942', 'The central Pacific advance', 'Madagascar', 'From the end of Imphal to the occupation of Rangoon, Jul 1944-May 1945', 'The atomic bomb and the Japanese decision to surrender' [1969]; typescript notes by Christopher T Hart including 'The Hong Kong campaign', 'The Philippines', 'The Battle of the Coral Sea'. 1 file