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Telegrams between Taylor, ‘CD’ [Maj Gen Colin McVean Gubbins], ‘AD 4’ [Col Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet-Escott] and ‘DU’ [Col Chapman Walker, Head of Special Operations Australia, SOA], on topics including: changes to the boundaries of South East Asia Command (SEAC) and SWPA; the future role and organisation of SOA; clandestine operations in the Dutch East Indies (DEI); intelligence sharing; a meeting in London between ‘BB100’ [Colin Mackenzie] and Prince Bernhard, Supreme Commander of the Netherlands Armed Forces, to discuss the possible deployment of Dutch forces in SEAC.

Telegram correspondence relating to movements of 31 Bde at Suvla Bay, comprising order from 9 Corps to 31 Bde to land, advance and maintain contact with 11 (Northern) Div; order from 11 Div requesting 31 Bde to attack Yilghin Burnu (Chocolate Hill); signal from 31 Bde to 11 Div notifying absence of units of 32 Bde and 34 Bde on left flank of 31 Bde; order from 11 Div to 31 Bde, requiring 31 Bde to join attack on Yilghin Burnu with units of 32 Bde, 33 Bde and 34 Bde under Brig Gen William Henry Sitwell. 1 file, 4 telegrams

File of telegrams received by staff of Hamilton's Force, including from Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon, on his advance towards Boer laager at Zilikat's Nek, Transvaal, 1 Aug; from Military Secretary, HQ, reporting status of Boer artillery around Komati Poort, Eastern Transvaal, 21 Sep; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reminding all commanding officers that armed Boer burghers taken prisoner were to be deported to St Helena or Ceylon, 24 Sep; from Roberts, recalling Hamilton and giving him command of columns under Maj Gen Ralph Arthur Penrhyn Clements, Col George Glencairn Cunningham and Brig Gen Robert George Broadwood, Western Transvaal, 30 Sep. With daily indexes (telegrams 11-25 Aug are missing). 1 file

Telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, reporting the entry of his 6 Bde into Vryburg, Cape Colony, 23 May; from Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 26 May, with casualty list from engagement outside Mafeking (16 May); from Director of Military Intelligence, on the occupation by British forces of Elandsfontein, with capture of locomotives and rolling stock, and estimates of Boer forces between Senekal and Bethlehem, Orange River Colony 29 May. With manuscript letter, 21 May, from Barton, reporting his entry into Taungs, Cape Colony. With daily indexes. 1 file

Telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, South Africa, ordering 6 Bde to escort four naval guns to Elandslaagte, Natal, 11 Mar; from Intelligence HQ, Capetown, with daily news bulletin, 13 Mar, reporting peace proposals made by Boer leaders and defeat of Boer forces by FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa at the battle of Driefontein (10 Mar); from Principal Medical Officer, Natal Army, proposing to send a field hospital to Hydes Farm, Ladysmith to relieve 5 Bde field hospital, 31 Mar; from Kitchener, informing that 4 Div were to assume the scouting duties of 10 Div at Modderspruit camp, 2 Apr. With separate notebook index to telegrams. 1 file, 1 notebook

File of telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, reporting surrender of Polfontein and Ottoshoop, Western Transvaal, advance of Lt Col Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer to Zeerust, and opening of supply routes to Mafeking, 1 Jun; from Maj Gen Geoffry Barton, commanding 6 Bde, on the looting of Boer farms by native Africans and on the shooting of looters by British troops, 2 Jun; from Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon and Intelligence, 10 Div, on Mahon's capture of Potchefstroom, Western Transvaal, and estimated location of Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet, 10 Jun; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, on his engagement with forces under Boer Gen Louis Botha east of Pretoria (battle of Diamond Hill), the destruction of the railway near Rhenoster Bridge and capture of British artillery battery by forces under De Wet, 13 Jun. With daily indexes. 1 file

Telegrams, mainly received by the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General to Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, and to Hamilton, Commanding Officer, Hamilton's Force, in relation to supplies, transport and animals for operations in the Transvaal. With telegram from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, reporting his occupation of Pretoria, 5 Jun. 1 file

Telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, including from Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, on surrender of Boers at Rustenburg, Western Transvaal, 19 Jun; from Director of Military Intelligence, Pretoria, and Distict Commissioner's Intelligence Office, Kroonstad, reporting attack on British garrison at Heuningspruit, Orange River Colony, by detachment of forces under Boer Gen Christiaan Rudolph De Wet, 22 Jun; from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, ordering Hunter to assume command of Hamilton's column at Heidelburg and to ensure Maj Gen Hector Archibald MacDonald prevents loss of communication between Heilbron and Wolwehoek, Orange River Colony, 25 Jun. With daily indexes. 1 file

Telegrams received by staff of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, 10 Div South African Field Force [1-6 Jul only], and of Hamilton's Force, including from FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa, ordering Hunter to retain Hamilton's staff and Hamilton to retain Hunter's staff, 6 Jul; details of men serving under Col Thomas Edgecomb Hickman recommended to serve in Capt Noel Nesbitt's Transvaal Constabulary ('Nesbitt's Horse'), 18 Jul; from Roberts, ordering Hamilton to send mounted troops to Eerste Fabriken, Transvaal, to counter patrols led by Boer Gen Johann N H Grobler and Boer Commandant H P J Pretorius attempting to cut lines of communication, 28 Jul. With details of composition of Hamilton's Force, their distribution and his ammunition column, 8-16 Jul. With daily indexes. 1 file

Telegrams congratulating O'Connor on his appointment from Aikin Lawford and North Western Army at Rawalpindi. 3pp

Congratulatory telegrams. Typescript, 2pp

File containing telegrams to Dimoline from his family after the Quetta earthquake; manuscript letter from Lt Edward Basil Elliott, Royal Signals, requesting the presence of Dimoline at an event organised by the Ancient Order of Quetta Quakers, with attached minutes and absence list from the first meeting of Ancient Order of Quetta Quakers; and instructions for sending map references in code by telegram. 1 file.

Telegrams to Talbot from well wishers, 1954-1955. 4 pp

Telegram correspondence from the Foreign Office to Reginald Wildig Allen Leeper, British Ambassador to Greece, regarding Foreign Office concerns over Operation NOAH'S ARK (harrying of German forces withdrawing from Greece by Special Operations Executive, Allied Air Forces and partisan forces), relating to proposed reduction of guerrilla activity prior to commencement of NOAH'S ARK and unacceptability of a Greek Commander-in-Chief. 1 file, 2 items

Telegrams to Taylor (‘AD’) from SOE Headquarters, London, on topics including: the situation in southern Africa; surveillance of Axis activities in Portuguese East Africa (PEA); a meeting between the British Ambassador to Lisbon and the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar concerning recent attacks on Allied shipping off the coast of Portuguese East Africa; a meeting with FM Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, concerning SOE activities in the region; relations between SOE and SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) in southern Africa; Taylor’s proposals for future operations in southern Africa. See also 1/3/2 for Taylor’s replies.

Telegrams from Robertson to Gen Sir Edward Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, the Hon Sir (Albert) Edward Kemp, Minister of Overseas Military Forces of Canada, the Hon Sir George Halsey Perley, High Commissioner for Canada, the Hon Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, the Rt Hon Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner of Australia in England, Gen Sir Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Forces in Italy, Lt Gen Sir George Francis Milne, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Commander in Chief, India, South African Maj Gen Sir Jacob Van Deventer, Commander in Chief, East Africa, and temporary Lt Gen Sir William Raine Marshall, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, on the occasion of his removal from the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

Two telegrams from Maj Gen Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler, Deputy Chief of General Staff, Western Front to Stern in Paris, France, arranging a meeting at Amiens, France. 1p

Telegram messages from [Lord] Norfolk regarding his move with troops from Cape Town. Copied. Manuscript, 2p.

Telegrams (M6 and 7) to Robertson from temporary Lt Gen George Francis Milne, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, giving an unfavourable opinion of French Gen Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, Commander in Chief, Allied Army of the Orient. 2pp.