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Letter to Robertson from AF John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, Chairman of the Inventions Board, on the feasibility of an enemy invasion of Britain due to the growing danger of the destruction of the British Grand Fleet by German submarine action, and the removal of Adm Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, from command. 4pp.

Letter to Robertson from acting Adm Sir David Beatty, Commander of the British Grand Fleet, thanking him for passing on military intelligence; the need for close communication between the military and the RN, to coordinate military endeavours. 2pp.

Letter to Robertson from Adm Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, First Sea Lord, giving his opinion as to the difficulties of offensive operations from Salonika, Greece. 2pp.

Letter to Robertson from Adm Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Sea Lord, enclosing a copy of his paper (not included). 1p.

Letter to Robertson from Adm Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Sea Lord, enclosing notes on the question of a German landing west of Nieuport, Belgium, and a letter from V Adm Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, Commander Dover Patrols, on intelligence matters (not included). 1p.

Letter to Robertson from Adm Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Sea Lord, regretting the lack of a ship to transport a General from Mesopotamia to East Africa. 1p.

Letter to Robertson from Alice Townshend, wife of Maj Gen Charles (Vere Ferrers) Townshend, General Officer Commanding, 6 Indian Div, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, asking for a private interview to discuss the lack of supplies reaching her husband and his troops in the besieged Kut el Amara, Mesopotamia. 2pp.

Letter to Robertson from the Rt Hon Arthur Fell, Chairman of the House of Commons Channel Tunnel Committee, offering his assistance on the subject to Robertson, to whom the Cabinet have referred the matter. 1p.

Private letter to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, from the Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, enclosing a copy of a private letter from Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India, in which Hardinge expresses concern about the health of Lt Gen Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, recently appointed General Officer Commanding, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, and advises having a suitable replacement ready. 3pp.

Letter to Robertson from the Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, on responsibility for affairs in South Persia. 3pp.

Letter to Robertson from John Wilson, Private Secretary to the Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, informing Robertson that his letter to Chamberlain has been forwarded to him in the country. 1p.

Letter to Robertson from William Morris Hughes (Billy Hughes), Australian Prime Minister, deploring the possibility that the Australian Corps may to be split up and assimilated into British units. 2pp.

Letter to Robertson from Mrs Amy Charlotte Stuart Menzies, asking him for an appreciation of Lt Gen Sir Frederick Stanley Maude for inclusion in a biography she is writing (Sir Stanley Maude and other memories (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1919). 2pp.

Letter to Robertson from Belgian Col the Count de Jonghe d'Ardoye, Aide de Camp to King Albert I of Belgium, and Chief of the Belgian Mission to the British Army in the Field, awarding him the Grand Cordon de l'Ordre de la Couronne. 1p.

Letter to Robertson from Belgian Lt Gen the Count de Jonghe d'Ardoye, Aide de Camp to King Albert I of Belgium, and Chief of the Belgian Mission to the British Army in the Field, awarding him the Belgian Croix de Guerre. 1p.

Letter to Robertson from Benjamin Tillet, General Secretary of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers Union, enclosing a resolution passed by the Executive Council recording admiration for officers and men fighting in the war, and condolences to the relatives of those killed. 2pp.

Letter from Brig Gen Charles Howard Foulkes, Commander Special Bde, Royal Engineers and Director of Gas Services, General Headquarters, forwarding a report, dated 19 Dec 1918, on the operations of the Special Bde during World War One. Includes four maps showing gas operations on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918 (using Ordnance Survey maps printed Dec 1918), and a graph showing the use of gas and casualties from 1915 to 1918. 6pp, 4 maps, 1 graph.

Letter to Robertson from Brig Gen Philip Howell, Chief Staff Officer to Lt Gen Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, giving an overview of the situation at Salonika, Greece, since the deembarkation of Allied troops there, notably the opinion of French Gen Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, Commander in Chief, Allied Army of the Orient, and his Staff that there will be an immediate attack by the Bulgarians; Howell's estimate of the number of troops required to hold the position, supposing the arrival of requested military transport, supplies, artillery and mounted troops; the character, abilities and future plans of Sarrail; problems of discipline and financial cost. 7pp.

Letter to Robertson from Brig Gen Philip Howell, Chief Staff Officer to Lt Gen Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, on the plan of campaign of French Gen Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, Commander in Chief, Allied Army of the Orient, for an attack towards Monastir and Lake Doiran, Macedonia, which Howell believes will be ineffective; Howell's alternative plan of an advance along the coast to Turkey; the lack of cooperation or consultation between the French and British at Salonika, Greece. 3pp.