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POMFRET, Surgeon R Adm Arnold Ashworth (1900-1984)

  • POMFRET
  • Collection
  • 1902-1975

Papers, 1902-1975, mostly concerning Weihaiwei, northern China, including typescript notes on the history of Weihaiwei, 1934, with three printed Annual Colonial Reports entitled Weihaiwei (HMSO, London, 1902, 1920 and 1929) and edition of the Weihaiwei Government Gazette containing the Convention for the rendition of Weihaiwei (5 May 1930); various invitations, menus, concert and sports programmes, Weihaiwei, 1938-1940, with booklet in French entitled Croiseur Lamotte Picquet (Pierre Le Conte, Caen, 1929); nine typescript HM Consular Notifications by Scott Langshaw Burdett, Consul, stating official instructions and advice for British subjects in the event of a Japanese takeover of Weihaiwei, Jan-Apr 1938, with typescript memorandum by Cdr Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards, Senior Naval Officer, Weihaiwei, on emergency procedures to be adopted for communication with HM Consul, Jan 1938; eleven Japanese propaganda posters, distributed in Weihaiwei, 1938, with typescript translations; newspaper cuttings relating to Weihaiwei, 1938-1939, with edition of the North China Daily News Magazine Supplement, 8 May 1938; thirty-four typescript reports by Pomfret to Commander-in-Chief HM Ships and Vessels, China Station, on prevailing situation and conditions in Weihaiwei and on Liu Kung Tao Island, Apr 1938-Nov 1940; personal and official correspondence, 1938-1975, including letter of introduction for Pomfret to Japanese V Adm Kichisaburo Nomura, from Capt Percival Henry Gwynne James, Royal Naval Liaison Officer, Shanghai, Nov 1939, letters from Elizabeth 'Betty' Clark on the Japanese occupation of Weihaiwei, Mar 1938, and letter from Surgeon Capt Harald Ernest Bruckshaw Curjel, Royal Navy, on memories of Weihaiwei, 1975; financial statements and typescript inventories for Royal Naval establishments, Liu Kung Tao Island, Weihaiwei, 1939-1940.

Pomfret, Arnold Ashworth, 1900-1984, Surgeon Rear Admiral

POOLE, Maj Gen Sir Frederick Cuthbert (1869-1936)

  • POOLE
  • Collection
  • 1917-1919

Papers relating to the British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under Gen Anton Ivanovich Denikin, South Russia, 1917-1919, and Poole's tenure as General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919, including maps of Russia, various scales, 1917-1919; typescript report by Capt George A Hill, RAF, entitled 'Report of work done in Russia to end of 1917', 27 Nov 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Report on visit of British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under General Denikin in South Russia', Nov-Dec 1918; printed booklet entitled 'A brief review of the liberation of the Don province from the yoke of the bolscheviks and of the beginning of the strife for the restoration of the unity of Russia', 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Appreciation of the internal situation in Russia', 12 Jan 1919; typescript 'Report of a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army in South Russia', by Poole, Feb 1919.

Poole, Sir Frederick Cuthbert, 1869-1936, Major General

POORE, Brig Gen Robert Montagu (1886-1938)

  • POORE, RM
  • Collection
  • 1887-1931

Papers relating to his life and career, [1891]-1931, dated [1891]-1931, 1977, 1985, 1988, principally comprising diaries, 1899-1900, and letters to his family, 1900-1902, describing his service as Provost Marshal with the South African Field Force; memorandum to Col Duff, Assistant Adjutant General, South African Field Force, concerning the functions of the Provost Marshal, 1900; photographs, [1891-1931], mainly of Poore and his family; 'The new cavalry sword and mounted swordsmanship', copy of an article by Poore from The Cavalry Journal, Apr 1911; copies of published articles relating to his cricketing career, 1899, [1920], 1985, 1988. Papers relating to his wife Lady Flora Poore, 1899-1900, 1916, comprising her diaries, 1899-1900; lists of work completed and statements of accounts of the Jhansi Cantonments Comforts to Troops Fund, 1915-1916.

Poore, Robert Montagu, 1886-1938, Brigadier General

POORE, Lt Col Roger Alvin (1870-1917)

  • POORE, RA
  • Collection
  • 1869-1879

Papers relating to his life and career, 1896-1902, 1908-1918, principally comprising letters to his family, 1896-1902, notably describing his service in operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal, South Africa, 1899-1900; notebook relating to his service in South Africa, 1899-1902, containing copies of brigade and divisional orders, notes on horses health, lists of men killed and financial accounts; 'Notes from beleaguered Kimberley', an account of the siege and relief of Kimberley, Feb 1900, by one of his colleagues, [1900]; letters to his wife, 1913-1917, notably describing his service in the UK, 1914-1917, and on the Western Front, 1917; letters to Poore's wife from Lt Col William Brooksbank Garnett, Commanding Officer, 2nd Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1917-1918, chiefly concerning the circumstances of Poore's death; army message book containing notes on explosives, 1917; photographs of Poore, 1882-1917. Family papers, 1869-1879, 1893, 1899-1979, notably including papers relating to Poore's wife, Mrs Lorne Margery Poore (née Dennistoun), 1869-1879, 1899-1979; correspondence with his sister, Nina Hamilton, wife of Duke of Hamilton, concerning Poore's management of a suspense account established to provide for the Hamilton's children, 1904-1916.

Poore, Roger Alvin, 1870-1917, Lieutenant Colonel

POORE, Maj Robert (1834-1918)

  • POORE, R
  • Collection
  • 1887-1924

Papers relating to his life and career, 1887-1924, comprising published pamphlets and articles relating to his establishment of a freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892], dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1894, [1912], 1924; correspondence relating to his candidature for a seat on Wiltshire County Council, 1888; photograph of portrait of Poore by T Binney Gibbs, 1912.

Poore, Robert, 1834-1918, Major

POORE, Philip (1874-1937)

  • POORE, P
  • Collection
  • 1900-1901

Letters to his father, Maj Robert Poore, describing his work as a mining engineer in the New Mashonaland Development Company Ltd, Rhodesia, 1900-1901.

Poore, Philip, 1874-1937, mining engineer

POWNALL, Lt Gen Sir Henry Royds (1887-1961)

  • POWNALL
  • Collection
  • 1933-1945

Twelve detailed, narrative, manuscript diaries, Jan 1933-Aug 1936 and Jan 1938-Dec 1944 (with postscripts added in Jan and Sep 1945), including Pownall's time as Military Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1933-1935, Commandant, School of Artillery, Larkhill, Wiltshire, 1936-1938, Chief of General Staff, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1939-1940, Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Northern Ireland, 1940-1941, and Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, 1943-1944, with aerial photograph of Belfast, Aug 1940, and a group photograph of the officers of South East Asia Command [1945], typescript extracts from reports, letters and typescript extract from the diary of Maj Gen Edmund Archibald Osborne, on the campaign in France, 1940. Also, printed order of service in memory of FM John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, 10 Apr 1946, and related newspaper cuttings. The diaries were published as Chief of Staff. The diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall, edited by Brian James Bond (Leo Cooper, London, 1972).

Pownall, Sir Henry Royds, 1887-1961, Lieutenant General

PRAIN, Lt Col John Murray (1902-1985)

  • PRAIN
  • Collection
  • [1918]-1959

Papers and maps chiefly concerning the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, [1918]-1959, including typescript copy of war diary, 1 Armoured Reconnaissance Bde, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, 30 Mar-30 May 1940, with typescript recommendations for awards, 1940; typescript account, dated Jun 1942, of dispositions and operations of B Sqn, 1 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Belgium and France, 14 May-1 Jun 1940; typescript list entitled '1 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, nominal roll of casualties sustained in France, 1940'; article by Maj Otho Munton Bullivant, Adjutant, 1 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, entitled 'With the BEF [British Expeditionary Force] in Flanders', from The Tank [1941]; typescript 'Precis of activities of 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry', British Liberation Army, North West Europe, Oct 1944-Feb 1945, and 'Details of activities of 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry', 1-31 Mar 1945; correspondence with various officers concerning Regimental affairs, 1943-1945, including Col James Younger, 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie, Honorary Col, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1945; correspondence, dated 1944-1945, relating to the return of the Regimental band instruments, abandoned by the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry during the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940, and kept by the local townspeople, France, 1940-1944; official correspondence concerning Prain's Army pension and war disablement compensation, 1946-1956; correspondence, dated 1947-1959, relating to the writing and publication of The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1919-1956 by Robert James Batchen Sellar (William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1960). Twenty five photographs relating to the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1923-1945, including group photograph of Armoured Car Company, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Annesmuir camp, Scotland, Jul 1923; five photographs of Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Vickers Light Tanks Mark VIB and Universal carriers, France, 1940; official photograph of Infantry Tank Mark IV Churchill Crocodile flame-throwing tank, storming of the Senio river, Italy, Apr 1945.

Prain, John Murray, 1902-1985, Lieutenant Colonel

PRENTICE, Maj Ronald R [1913-1980] and WICKSTEAD, Capt H Arthur 1913-1989

  • PRENTICE & WICKSTEAD
  • Collection
  • 1942-1945

Prentice's manuscript diaries, mainly detailing his services at General Headquarters, Middle East Command, Cairo, Egypt, including mention of Long Range Desert Group operations in the Western Desert, 1942; manuscript diaries and notebooks kept by Prentice and Wickstead, mainly relating to SOE operations in West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944; reports, mainly compiled by Allied Military Mission personnel, detailing demolition, intelligence and reconnaissance missions in West Macedonia, combined missions with Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div, liaison operations with Raiding Support Regiment and US Operational Group 7 personnel, sabotage targets, and administrative and operational procedures, 1943-1944; papers, in Greek, mainly relating to ELAS partisan activities in West Macedonia, including a copy of the 'National Bands Agreement', memoranda to Allied Military Mission regarding struggles with Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) factions, political proclamations and ELAS propaganda; papers, in Greek, relating to Greek partisan forces not under the jurisdiction of the Allied Military Mission, including memoranda, propaganda and military orders from the Ellinikos Ethnikis Stratos (EES) and Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE) and official Greek government notices, 1943- 1944; maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission areas of operation, 1943- 1944; correspondence between Allied Military Mission commanders and sub-area commanders, 1943-1944, including correspondence between Greek partisan commanders and Prentice, 1944; personal letters from Allied personnel to Prentice, 1946-1955; correspondence between Wickstead, Officer Commanding Signals, Area 1, and Allied personnel, 1944; papers relating to wireless/telegraphy signals, Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; papers, relating mainly to the administration and supply of the Allied Military Mission; German papers, including German 1 Mountain Div operational orders, propaganda, personal letters from German soldiers to family members and German-language newspapers; Greek political papers, notably including propaganda newspapers and party leaflets, including letters to Maj Gen Arthur Wilmot Wadeson Holworthy, 1941-1946; Wickstead's post-war index of Allied Military Mission signals, [1989]; papers relating to post-war publications about SOE operations in Greece, including the working papers for Lt Col Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond's, The Allied Military Mission and the Resistance in West Macedonia (Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, 1993); post-war Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, 1945-[1991]. 3.3.4 Arrangement: Arranged in the following sections: diaries and notebooks of Maj Ronald R Prentice and Capt H Arthur Wickstead, 1942-1944; documents and papers relating to Allied Military Mission operations, West Macedonia, 1943-1944; papers relating to Greek partisan activities, 1943-1944; maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission areas of operations, 1943-1944; correspondence between Allied Military Mission commanders, 1943-1944 and former Greek partisans, 1946-1955; papers relating to wireless/telegraphy signals, Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; papers relating to the administration, finances and logistics of the Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; German papers, documents and newspapers during the occupation of Greece, 1943-1944; Greek political papers, documents and newspapers, 1941-1946; Wickstead's post-war partial index of signals, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, [1989]; papers relating to post-war publications about the resistance movement in West Macedonia, [1989-1991]; post- war Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, 1945-[1991].

Prentice, Ronald R, 1913-1980, Major

PROCTER, Maj John Harold (1917-1950)

  • PROCTER
  • Collection
  • 1944-1945

Papers relating to his service in the Far East in 1942-1945 and 1950, dated 1942-1945 and 1950, principally comprising two photograph albums of Keijo (Seoul) POW camp, 1942-1944; copy of obituary from The Lancashire Lad, North Lancashire Regt (Loyal Regt) journal (Dec 1950); copy of covering letter to the Centre from Joan Procter (Procter's sister), 1992.

Procter, John Harold, 1917-1950, Major

PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOPS) Publications (1915-2002)

  • PSYOPS
  • Collection
  • 1915-2002

Publications on psychological operations, 1915-2002, including books, editions of Falling Leaf (the magazine of the Psywar Society), other publications by the Psywar Society, journals, newsletters, VHS tapes, photocopies and printouts.

International Centre for Security Analysis, Department of War Studies, King's College London

PURDON, Maj Gen Corran William Brooke (1921-2018)

  • PURDON
  • Collection
  • 1993

List the bugle, reminiscences of an Irish soldier (Greystone, Antrim, 1993), a memoir of his life and career, 1921-1976, notably his service in the UK and France, 1942, including the Allied raid on St Nazaire,1942, his experiences as a POW, Germany, 1942-1945, his service in Palestine, 1945-1946, Egypt, 1949-1951, Malaya, 1956-1958, and Cyprus, 1958, and his command of the 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Borneo, 1963-1964, and of the Sultan's Armed Forces, Oman, 1967-1970.

Purdon, Corran William Brooke, 1921-2018, Major General

PUTIN, RUSSIA AND THE WEST: television documentary archive

  • PUTIN, RUSSIA AND THE WEST
  • Collection
  • 2011-2012

The collection includes: DVDs of the series as broadcast on BBC2, Jan-Feb 2012: Part 1, Taking control; Part 2, Democracy threatens; Part 3, War; Part 4, New start; transcripts of interviews conducted (chiefly in 2011) with interviewees from France, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia, UK, Ukraine and USA; DVDs of original interviews; final scripts; background information gathered in the course of research. Topics covered include: Russian-American diplomatic relations, 2001-2011; the personal relationship between President Vladimir Putin and President George W Bush, 2001-2009; Russian involvement in Ukrainian politics, 2004; the Orange Revolution, Ukraine, 2004-2005; the Russo-Georgian War (South Ossetia War, Five Day War), Aug 2008; the personal relationship between President Barak Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev, 2009-2011; the relationship between President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, 2008-2011.

Interview transcripts are arranged by the country where the interview was conducted:

France: Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, French Ambassador to the UK, 2007-2011; Jean-David Levitte, French Ambassador to the United Nations, 2000-2002; French Ambassador to the USA, 2002-2007; diplomatic advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007-2012.

Georgia: David Bakradze, Chairman, Parliament of Georgia, 2008-;

Giga Bokeria, Member of Georgian Parliament, 2004-; Deputy Foreign Minister, 2008-2010; Secretary of the National Security Council, 2010-; Nino Burjanadze, Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia, 2001-2008; Batu Kutelia, Head of Foreign Intelligence, 2006-2008; Georgian Ambassador to the USA, Canada and Mexico, 2008-2011; Deputy National Security Advisor, 2011-; Mikheil Saakashvili, Minister for Justice, 2000-2001; President of Georgia, 2004-2007 and 2008-; Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili, Deputy Prime Minister, 2010-.

Germany: Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany, 1998-2005; Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Vice Chancellor of Germany, 2007-2009.

Israel: Leonid Nevzlin, executive, Yukos Oil Company, Russia, 1996-2003; senator for Mordovia, Federation Council of Russia, 2001-2003; resident in Israel, 2003-.

Poland: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland, 1995-2005; Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister of National Defence, 2005-2007; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2007-.

Russia: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Chair of human rights non-governmental organisation Moscow Helsinki Group, 1996-; member of human rights advisory commission to President Vladimir Putin, 2000; Anatoly Antonov, Director of Security and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2004-2011; Deputy Minister of Defence, 2011-; Boris Chochiev, acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia, 2008; Arkady Dvorkovich, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, 2008-2012; Deputy Prime Minister, 2012-; German Gref, Minister of Economics and Trade, 2000-2007; President of Sberbank, 2007-; Igor Ivanov, Foreign Minister, 1998-2004; Secretary of the Security Council, 2004-2007; Sergei Ivanov, National security advisor, 1999-2001; Minister of Defence, 2001-2007; Deputy Prime Minister, 2005-2011; Chief of Staff, Presidential Administration of Russia, 2011-; Grigory Karasin, Russian Ambassador to the UK, 2000-2005; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2005-; Mikhail Kasyanov, Prime Minister of Russia, 2000-2004; leader, People’s Democratic Union party, 2004-; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Chairman of Yukos Oil Company, 1997-2003; tried and imprisoned for fraud, 2003; Viktor Khristenko, First Deputy Prime Minister, 1999-2000; Minister of Industry, 2004-2012; Yevgeniy Kiselev (Yevgeny Kiselyov), presenter of weekly news show Itogi, 1993-2001; Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia, 2001-2011; Alexei Kudrin, Minister of Finance, 2000-2011; Maj Gen Marat Kulakhmetov, Commander, Combined Peacekeeping Forces, South Ossetia, 2007-; Sergei Lavrov, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), 1994-2004; Foreign Minister, 2004-; Sergei Markov, advisor to the Russian Duma, 2000-; member of the ‘Commission to counter attempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history’, 2009-2012; Vladimir Milov, Deputy Minister of Energy, 2002; Dmitry Muratov, Editor-in-Chief, Novay Gazeta newspaper; Gleb Pavlovsky, political analyst, advisor to the Presidential Administration of Russia, 2000-; Sergei Prikhodko, Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration, 1998-2004; Aide to the President, 2004-; Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Chief of Mission, Russian Embassy, USA, 2002-2005; Head of Department of European Co-operation, 2005-2008; Deputy Foreign Minister, 2008-; Viktor Shenderovich, satirist.

UK: Tony Brenton, British Ambassador to Russia, 2004-2008; Alexander Litvinenko, Former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, resident in UK, 2000-2006; poisoned, 2006 (interviewed c 2000); David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 2007-2010; Jonathan Powell, Downing Street Chief of Staff, 1997-2007; George Robertson, Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1999-2004; Alexander Temerko, Vice President, Yukos Oil Company, Russia, 2003-2005; resident in UK, 2005-.

Ukraine: Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine, 1994-2005; Hryhoriy Nemyria, Foreign Policy advisor, 2005; Vice Prime Minister for European and International Integration, 2007-2010; Oleh Rybachuk, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, 2005; Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine 2005-2010.

USA: Bill Burns, US Ambassador to Russia, 2005-2008; Nick Burns, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 2005-2008; Eric Edelman, Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, 2001-2003; US Ambassador to Turkey, 2003-2005; Daniel Fata, Policy Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs, Republican Party Committee, 2001-2005; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, 2005-2008; Daniel Fried, Special Assistant to the President, 2001-2005; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 2005-2009; Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, 2006-2011; Rose Gottemoeller, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center, 2006-2008; Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, 2009-; Stephen Hadley, Deputy National Security Advisor, 2001-2005; National Security Advisor, 2005-2009; John Herbst, US Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2000-2003; US Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003-2006; Andrei Illarionov, economic advisor to the Russian President, 2000-2005; Senior Researcher, Cato Institute, USA, 2006-; Gen James Jones, National Security Advisor, 2009-2010; Michael McFaul, Senior Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council, 2008-2011; US Ambassador to Russia, 2011-; Colin Powell, Secretary of State, 2001-2005; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, 2001-2005; Secretary of State, 2005-2009; Stephen Sestanovich, Secretary of State’s special advisor on New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union, 1997-2001; Professor of International Diplomacy, Columbia University, 2001-; Damon Wilson, Deputy Director, Private Office of the NATO Secretary General, 2001-2004; Director of Central, Eastern and North European Affairs, National Security Council, 2004-2006; Temuri Yakobashvili, Minister for Reintegration, Georgia, 2008-2010; Georgian Ambassador to the USA, 2010-.

Brook Lapping

PYLE, Farrier Sgt Richard E (1860-1910)

  • PYLE
  • Collection
  • 1885

Microfilm copy of manuscript narrative diary by Pyle covering the voyage of two Sqns of 5 (Royal Irish) Lancers from Kingstown, Ireland, to the Sudan, and the subsequent Suakin campaign against Dervish forces commanded by the Mahdi (Mohammed Ahmed Ibn Al-Sayid Abdullah), 20 Feb-11 Apr 1885, including an account of the Battle of Tofrek, 22 Mar 1885.

Pyle, Richard E, 1860-1910, Farrier Sergeant

PYMAN, Gen Sir Harold English (1908-1971)

  • PYMAN
  • Collection
  • 1860-1901

The collection covers Pyman's career from 1937 until 1963 when he suffered a severe stroke which forced his retirement in 1964. The earliest papers date from Pyman's work with the Royal Tank Cadre in converting the 17/21 Lancers from a cavalry to an armoured regiment. There are also papers from Pyman's period as an instructor at the Staff College in Quetta, India, 1939-1941. Pyman was involved in the World War Two campaigns by the 8 Army in the Western Desert, in 1941 as General Staff Officer with 7 Armoured Div, 30 Corps and in 1942-1943 as Commander of the 3 Royal Tank Regiment, 10 Armoured Div, 30 Corps. The papers consist mostly of Pyman's assessments of lessons learned from the ongoing campaigns particularly with regard to tanks and armoured units. In 1944-1945 Pyman was Brigidier General Staff, 30 Corps, 2 Army in the Normandy landings and the invasion of Northern Europe, with particular responsibility for organisation and planning of the Rhine crossing and advance to the Baltic. This is reflected in the papers which largely consist of planning studies and reports for the operations involved, this section also contains maps used in the campaign. Pyman's next appointment was as Chief of General Staff, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, 1945-1946 which is documented by a series of diaries which reflect the tasks faced by Pyman in this command including dealing with the build up of tension between newly liberated former colonies keen to assert their right for independence and the former colonial powers such as France and Netherlands. Pyman spent 1946-1949 as Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces and kept monthly diaries which form the bulk of this section of the collection. The diary entries and additional papers reflect the debate over policy in the Middle East in the British Government and Military command, they include detail on the British withdrawal from Greece, the problem of illegal Jewish immigrants and their internment in Cyprus, the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the the effect of this on relations between Britain with Egypt and the other Arab states and the subsequent Arab Israeli conflict. This section of the collection also contains correspondence between Pyman and Maj Gen Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey on personal matters and on the Middle East. There are also papers from Pyman's work at the Ministry of Supply as Director General of Fighting Vehicles, 1951-1953, Director of Weapons Development, War Office, 1955-1956 mostly brief diary entries and lecture texts. Pyman was also General Officer Commanding, British Army on the Rhine, 1953-1955 and General Officer Commanding, 1 British Corps, 1956-1958 and the papers relating to these commands consist mostly of lectures, reports and directives reflecting his interest in armoured divisions and training. There are some papers, mostly personal correspondence and press cuttings, from Pyman's final command as Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The collection also contains correspondence relating to Pyman's role as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment and The Royal Armoured Corps and a series of letters covering the reorganisation of the Berks and Westminster Dragoons, of which he was Honorary Colonel. The rest of the collection consists of diaries, correspondence, speeches, writings including the draft copy and papers relating to his autobiography, some preparatory work on a history of the 2 Army and reference works. The collection also includes the Boer War diaries and other papers of Col James Redmond Patrick Gordon who commanded the 1 Cavalry Bde of the South African Field Force 1900-1901 which were given to Pyman by a friend.

Pyman, Harold English ('Pete'), 1908-1971, Knight, General

QUERIPEL, Col Leslie Herbert (1881-1963)

  • QUERIPEL
  • Collection
  • 1917

Copies of papers relating to his military service, 1898-1945, dated 1917 and [1945], comprising a letter to his wife describing the fall of Baghdad, 10 Mar 1917, and subsequent conditions in the city, dated 16-17 March 1917; official Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force General HQ 'Despatch on operations', 28 Aug 1916-31 Mar 1917, dated Apr 1917; summary of his military service, 1898-1945, written in [1945].

Queripel, Leslie Herbert, 1881-1963, Colonel

QUINLAN, Sir Michael (1930-2009)

  • QUINLAN
  • Collection
  • 1976-2008

Correspondence, articles, texts for speeches, notes and background information relating to defence issues, particularly nuclear deterrence, in an ethical and theological context. Specific topics include:Iran's nuclear programme, 2005-2006; Iraq; background information, 1960s-1970s on intermediate range nuclear missiles; nuclear issues in South Asia, 1998-2008.

Correspondence, 1976-1998, used in Tanya Ogilvie-White (editor) On nuclear deterrence: the correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan (London, Adelphi Books, 2011), transferred from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Correspondents are civil servants, politicians, theologians, campaigners and academics, including: General Sir Hugh Beach, Rev Robert Beresford, T F Burns, Sir Frank Cooper, Leonard Cheshire, Lawrence Freedman, David Fisher, John Finnis, Cardinal Basil Hume, Sir Arthur Hockaday, Rev Jack Mahoney, Gerald Mahon, Dan Martin, Lawrence Martin, Richard Perle, Walter Stein and Francis Winters.

Quinlan, Michael Edward, 1930-2009, Knight, civil servant

RADFORD, Brig Walter Buckley (1903-1987)

  • RADFORD
  • Collection
  • 1945

Typescript report, '23rd Armoured Bde operations in Greece, October 15 1944-January 7 1945' issued by Headquarters, Royal Armoured Corps, Central Mediterranean Forces, May 1945, and typescript volume, 'The Second World War 1939-1945 - Army - Planning' by Col Robert David Quixano Henriques, issued by the War Office, 1954.

Radford, Walter Buckley, 1903-1987, Brigadier

RAE, AVM Ronald Arthur Ramsay (1910-1994)

  • RAE
  • Collection
  • 1994

Memorial addresses and obituaries, 1994, including details of his service as Commander, RAF Tengah, Singapore, 1942, and his subsequent capture and imprisonment by the Japanese, 1943-1945.

Rae, Ronald Arthur Ramsay, 1910-1994, Air Vice Marshal

RAEBURN, Maj Gen Sir Digby (1915-2001)

  • RAEBURN
  • Collection
  • [1992]

Some recollections of a Scots Guardsman, 1935-1947', a memoir covering his military career during the period 1935-1947, notably his service at General HQ, Middle East Land Forces, 1940-1943, and with the Scots Guards in Italy, 1943-1944 and 1947, and Germany, 1945, written in [1992].

Raeburn, Sir William Digby Manifold, 1915-2001, Knight, Major General

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