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Letters of discussion', carbon copies of letters including to Alistair Allan Horne, commenting on Horne's book 'To lose a battle', 6 Mar 1969; notes on FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, by Gen Sir (Henry) Charles Loyd, 2 Apr 1968. 1 file

Copies of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart's correspondence, memoranda and lectures on various subjects including; FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and the campaigns in the Western Desert, 1942; Maj Gen John Frederick Charles Fuller's The conduct of war, 1789-1961. A study of the impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on war and its conduct (Eyre & Spottiswoode: London, 1961); Rt. Hon Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and The Alexander memoirs, 1940-1945 edited by John North (Cassell, London, 1962); the policy of 'unconditional surrender' and the Casablanca conference, Jan 1943. With notes for a profile of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Apr 1942. 1 file

Copy of typescript list of names of correspondents on fashion, 1932-1968. 5pp

Copy of list of recipients of honours and awards on the King's birthday. 1p

Copy of a letter by Revd Michael Maurice (father of Frederick Denison Maurice) to his children informing them of their family history, and giving financial accounts in Appendices. Typed carbon 6pp; Attached: letters from William M. Bayne-Powell his son-in-law to Fred [Maurice?] enclosing the above and explaining that he does not know where the original is. Manuscript, 2pp 1924 Mar 24

Map: worldwide deployment of British armed forces as at 1 Jan 1967, photocopy and photographic copy.

Photocopies of maps of World War One battle sites relating to publication of The real war, a history of the world war 1914-1918 by Liddell Hart, including correspondence from John S Fenton, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence. 1 file

Manuscript extracts from the minutes of the meetings of the Committee of Management of King’s College Hospital.

Manuscript extracts from the minutes of the meetings of the Committee of Management of King’s College Hospital and a report for the Subcommittee on the New Building.

Memorandum by Sir Caspar John, First Sea Lord, R A Hunt, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and MRAF Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, Chief of the Air Staff to the Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence, on Central Organisation for Defence, presented to Parliament 1958 Jul, Cmnd 476 (HMSO, London) referring to the Prime Minister's minute (3/4/118), with a note by the service Chiefs of Staff on the central organisation for defence. Photocopy signed typescript 8pp

Copy of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Canadian Military Headquarters for Stern containing his observations on a paper written by Maj Gen Giffard Le Quesne Martel, on the subject of the employment of the gun in tanks. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to D P & E O (W) relating to the turning off of two hundredweight from one of the two Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns in 17 pounder tank mounting proved at Woolwich and arrangements for the subsequent firing trials of the lightened gun. 1p

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Secretary, the Ordnance Board, containing a technical design specification of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for 17 pounder tank mounting and note by the Ordnance Board of agreement with the design. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Secretary, the Ordnance Board on the firing trials of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun in 17 pounder tank mounting, including the tabulated results of buffer pressure diagrams. 2pp

Copy for Stern of memoranda from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply placing an order for two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Typescript copies of a Memorandum by General Sir Ian Hamilton on a letter from Mr K A Murdoch to the Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth. Hamilton's response to the allegations contained in the letter of Keith Arthur Murdoch, journalist, to Rt Hon Andrew Fisher, on the conduct of the Dardanelles Campaign, printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence. 1 file (Six identical copies).

Typed copy of memorandum from Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), to Brig Gen Edward Mabbott Woodward, Deputy Adjutant General MEF, requesting four Gurkali speaking officers for 6th Gurkha Rifles, and surplus staff officers from Egypt. 1p

Typescript copy of memorandum by Japanese Gen Shiba to Lt Gen Sir Gerald Francis Ellison, entitled 'The relation between state-policy and military strategy of Japan during the Russo-Japanese war'. 3pp

John Frederick Maurice. Copy of memo to Capt Barton, ordering him to despatch 50 of the native infantry contingent to a certain drift. [Papers torn on right hand side] Manuscript, 1p

Copy of private memorandum sent by Robertson to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, outlining his proposals on the status and duties of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), notably the abolition of the existing system of issuing operational orders through the Army Council and the placing of this power in the hands of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (see 3/3/42), amended following a personal discussion between Robertson and Kitchener as to the role of the Secretary of State for War, and with substantial alterations to the paragraphs dealing with that subject. 6pp.