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Telegrams received and dispatched by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, reporting lack of Principal Medical Officer and bearer company, and seeking permission to commandeer ambulances and carts, 26 Apr; from Military Secretary, HQ, ordering six inch gun and crew to be left for use at Warrenton, Cape Colony, 29 Apr. With daily indexes. 1 file

Prototype telegraph transmitter with 30 keys each representing a letter or number and operating a make and break contact sending pulses of current down the line to a receiver.  Thirty unmarked ivory concertina style keys on a round mahogany base and octagonal mahogany lid.

Telegraph Sunday Magazine: 'Airborne above Armageddon' relating to US airborne command post in the event of nuclear war.

Telegraph relay used for long distance lines by re-transmitting a signal to the receiver or other apparatus.  Consists of a circular brass mechanism with a glass top, and brass knobs (labelled D, D, T, M, U, U) mounted on a circular wooden base.  [See K/PP107/1/4/100 for a description of improvements for relay for automatic telegraph.]

Telegraph relay used for long distance lines by re-transmitting a signal to the receiver or other apparatus.  Consists of an electromagnet housed in a semi-circular wooden case. [See K/PP107/1/4/100 for a description of improvements for relay for automatic telegraph.]

Electromagnetic telegraph receiver bell mechanism, brass on a wooden base, case missing [see diagram K/PP107/1/4/44].

Simple telegraph switch or key possibly for William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), inventor, and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph. Consists of a wooden base with brass bars and terminals, and ivory buttons. [See K/PP107/1/3/85.]

Telegram from to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister relating to SEXTANT, the Allied Cairo conference to discuss future strategy, Dec 1943 to Ismay with best wishes. Duplicated, 1p

Sample of a telegraph cable for an underground railway made of 10 thick wire cables cast into a concrete block.  Original label reads, 'Old form of under-ground railway telegraph wires'.

Sample of a prototype cable made of ninety thin copper wires encased in laminated wood.

Electromagnetic telegraph bell receiver in a mahogany box with green fretwork front and brass winding key at rear [see K/PP107/1/4/44].

Telegram correspondence between Hamilton, George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Maj Gen Francis Seymour Inglefield, General Officer Commanding 54 (East Anglian) Div, relating to news of the fate of 5 Bn Norfolk Regt which disappeared without trace during the advance of 12 Aug on Tekke Tepe to clear village of Anafarta Ova. 1 file, 5 telegrams

Telegrams from Middle East Command to British Military Mission to Greece updating on position of Greek Government in Cairo. 2 items.

Typescript telegrams regarding Greek Kukus detatchment assigned to Anglo-French forces, Salonica (Thessaloniki), including details on operations and administration of detachment. 14pp.

Telegram correspondence between Lt Col Stephen Hungerford Pollen, Assistant Military Secretary, General General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and General Headquarters of ANZAC and 8 Corps, regarding names of officers deserving special mention to be included in a despatch covering period of operations 5 May-1 Jul. 1 file, 7 telegrams

Telegram correspondence relating to the inability of Hamilton and staff to sail to Suvla Bay in RN destroyer HMS ARNO, comprising three signals between Hamilton and R Adm Stuart Nicholson on board RN battleship HMS EXMOUTH, regarding problems with boilers in the ARNO; typed extracts from signal logs of EXMOUTH and RN yacht TRIAD. 1 file

Telegrams between Allenby and Rt Hon Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, concerning the appointment of Nevile Meyrick Henderson as Minister Plenipotentiary in Cairo, Allenby's objections to the appointment and his subsequent resignation as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan. 1 file

Telegrams from Taylor (‘AD’) to SOE Headquarters, London, on topics including: the situation in southern Africa; the morale of individual SOE agents; reports on meetings with FM Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa; the potential for expansion of SOE activity in southern Africa; difficult relations between SOE and SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) in southern Africa; the transfer of responsibility for SOE work in Angola to the South African Mission. See also 1/3/1 for telegrams from SOE Headquarters, London.

Telegrams received by Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Arthur Henry Paget, reporting the advance of his 20 Bde on Boer forces near Warrenton, Cape Colony, 5 May; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting his capture of Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, 13 May; from Military Secretary, HQ, enquiring on the behaviour of Hunter's troops in Vryburg district following Boer allegations of property destruction, wanton slaughter of animals, and ill treatment of the sick, 18 May; from Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, commanding 6 Bde, reporting the entry of the column of Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon into Mafeking, 21 May. With daily indexes. 1 file

Carbon copies of telegrams, nos 070-080, dispatched by Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, Western Transvaal, including to Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner, reporting his deployment of Cape Police at Schweizer-Reneke and Vryburg to suppress cattle raiding, 21 Jun; to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, on the appointment of provisional civil governments in Ventersdorp, Lichtenburg and Klerksdorp, 21 Jun; to Maj Gen Hector Archibald McDonald, commanding 3Bde, on Hunter assuming command of Hamilton's force due to Hamilton's fractured collar bone, 26 Jun. 1 notebook