- MENAUL 5/4/12
- Item
- 1982 Nov 30
Copy of letter from B Rogers, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, to B Schemmer, editor of Armed Forces Journal: an article relating to 'Deepstrike'.
56 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Copy of letter from B Rogers, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, to B Schemmer, editor of Armed Forces Journal: an article relating to 'Deepstrike'.
Copy of letter from Selby to Creagh, suggesting transfer to Creagh of de Butts as General Staff Officer 3, Intelligence. 2pp
Covering letter from Norman Craven Brook to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence and reports on defence reorganisation consisting of memorandum by Norman Brook to Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister and reports by the secretary of the cabinet entitled 'Central organisation for defence'; and 'Defence organisation: integration on a functional basis'. Photocopy typescript carbon 26pp
Typed copy of letter [to Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Bt] from Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official Historian of the Australian Imperial Force, regarding Bean's recent visit to Gallipoli, including description of desecration of Allied graves, and work of Imperial War Graves Commission in identifying graves; structures of Turkish trenches; Turkish military opinion on the success of the ANZAC action at Lone Pine, 6 Aug 1915, and deception of the Allied evacuation. 5pp With memorandum by Bean, comprising answers by the Turkish General Staff to his questions relating to their expectations of initial Allied landing sites on Gallipoli; Turkish units involved in opposing the landings of 25 Apr 1915, the Turkish offensive of 19 May 1915 at Anzac, and during operations at Sari Bair and Suvla Bay, Aug 1915; Turkish expectations of an Allied evacuation; German units attached to the Turkish forces. 11pp (Three copies)
Typescript copy of letter from Col Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain to Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Landsdowne, Secretary of State for War, enclosing typescript notes by FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, Commander in Chief South Africa on the respective capabilities of senior officers serving in South Africa, including Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall; Lt Gen Paul Sandford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen; Lt Gen Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle; Lt Gen Thomas Kelly-Kenny; Maj Gen Sir Herbert Charles Chermside; Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter; Lt Gen Sir Charles Tucker; Maj Gen Reginald Pole-Carew; Hamilton; Lt Gen Sir John Denton Pinkstone French and Maj Gen Edward Thomas Henry Hutton. 8pp
Col W. Kirke to Frederick Barton Maurice. He has taken the course suggested [to ask MacPherson to inform P.M. of mistake in reply to Baring question]. His appreciation of the situation. Manuscript, 3 pp + 2 photocopies.
Copy for Stern of a letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire relating to the manufacture of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc tank gun for use in the TOG 2 tank. 2pp
Copy letter from Dawson & Co, 1971
Mr Haydon and Dawson & Co. Photocopy 1 p + typed 1 p
Copy of letter from Keith-Roach to Battershill, concerning the administration of Palestine and suggesting a simpler form of government including reduction of Civil Magistrates and proposing that trivial cases be tried in villages; and reduction of Government Medical Officers. With covering letter to O'Connor. 5pp
Copy of letter from E H van Eeghen to AVM H Bird-Wilson: relating to the training and use of the Vysotniki, as special parachute force.
(King Hussein) to Sherif Zeid. Threatening to remove Feisal from his post as OC Northern Army. (Rough copy for telegram.) Ms, 1p
Frederick Barton Maurice to Asquith. He has decided not to seek his support but act alone. Manuscript, copy from "Asquith" by Roy Jenkins. p 469. 1 p
[Frederick Barton Maurice] to C.I.G.S. [Wilson] "Reinforcements for France from Outside Theatres" [referred to by Frederick Barton Maurice as his 'Swan Song']. Typed carbon 5 pp + Typed carbon copy made up for the book 'The Maurice Case'.
Typescript copy of letter to McLeod from Lt Col Morice, commanding FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur) in the department of Morbihan, France, with thanks for assistance rendered in arming Morice's forces, and with news of operations and German casualties incurred (translated from the original French to English). 1p
Copy letter from Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery, Nov 1943, on planned operations in Italy
Photocopy of a letter from Gen Sir Bernard Law Montgomery to Allfrey, advising him on the policy his Corps must adopt to capture Mozzagrona and Santa Maria, Italy. 3pp.
Copy letter from General Kurt Student to Liddell Hart, 1948, about German air warfare, 1940-1944
Copy of a letter from Gen Kurt Student to Liddell Hart on planning and tactics in German airborne assaults on Belgium and Holland, 1940, Crete, 1941, Russia, 1941 and the Ardennes, 1944. 1 file
Copy of letter from Gen Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, 1st Baron Bourne of Atherstone to Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs: request for increased aid to South Vietnam.
Copy letter from General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, May 1946
Copy of FULLER 2/42, Gen Sir James Marshall-Cornwall to Mitzakis. Typed carbon. 1 p
Gen Sir Reginald Wingate, Sirdar or the Egyptian Army, Khartoum, to Kaimakan Joyce Bey. Orders to proceed to Rabegh to act as escort to aeroplane base and assist local Arab leaders. Copy. Typed carbon, 2pp
Copy of letter from Gen W.R. Robertson to Haig, sending the conclusions of the Anglo-French Conference held in the train at Bolougne on the 25 Sept 1917 regarding withdrawal of British and French heavy artillery from the Italian front and the extension of the British line on the Western front. Typed carbon 1 p