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Papers relating to the military career of Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper, dated 1900, [1910] and [1913], 1917-1918, principally comprising typescript notes on military aeronautics, [1910]; text of his lecture to the Staff College on the effect of aircraft on war, [1913]; telegrams between German High Seas Fleet and V Adm Sir David Beatty, Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet, concerning the surrender of the former at Scapa Flow, 1918; 'Report of the commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the operations of war in Mesopotamia' (London, HMSO, 1917). Copy of typescript text on the Capper Medal Collection, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, [1969], including brief biographies of members of the Capper family.

Four issues of a special edition of the Westminster Gazette concerning the relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, South Africa, by Gen John Denton Pinkstone French, during the Second Boer War, 16 Feb 1900

Publications collected by Lt Col Geoffrey Young, including: Regulations for Conducting the Duties of the Treasury Chests Abroad, 1st April 1900 (HMSO, 1900); text of 'Proclamation by the GOC in Chief (Lt Gen Sir William Raine Marshall) in Mesopotamia to the people of Iraq on the occasion of the successful conclusion of hostilities against the Turkish Armies', 2 Nov 1918; Joan, A War Horse: In Memoriam, November 1918 , by Maj F N Lund, RE; The Royal Army Pay Corps, an abridged history , 1953; The Prince Consort's Library: Aldershot, 1860-1960 , selection of essays celebrating the centenary of the Army Library Service military specialist library, Aldershot, 1960; History of 1(BR) Corps, 1909-1967 , 1967; extract from Chronicle of the Jagerkaserne Eichstatt, 1933-1952 , by Helmut Reis, translated by C Byass, relating to prisoner of war camp Oflag V11B, 1939-1945, nd.

Correspondence with Col Sir Clive Wigram, Assistant Private Secretary to HM King George V, 1911-1933, including detailed descriptions of operations in Gallipoli and on the Western Front during World War One. Correspondence concerning a visit by Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, to Cologne, Germany, in 1922. Letters to Godley from various military friends and acquaintances, 1901-1954, including FM William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes; FM Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan; AF Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Bt; Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton; Lt Gen Sir Frederick Stanley Maude; Gen Sir John Maxwell; Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray; FM Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1stViscount Plumer of Messines; and FM Sir William (Robert) Robertson, 1st Bt. Two unpublished volumes of letters from Godley to his wife, Louisa Marion Godley, Lady Godley, sent during active service on the Western Front, 1916-1918. Biographical information relating to Godley and his family, namely a copy of his memoirs, Life of an Irish Soldier (John Murray, London, 1939), a copy of his obituary in The Times, 1957, and photocopied extracts from New Zealand encyclopedias relating to Godley and his uncle, John Robert Godley.

Typescript extracts from letters home, 1901-1902, describing MacGowan's voyage to South Africa, Apr 1901, his service with the South African Constabulary, May 1901-Jul 1902, and his work as a miner in the Transvaal, Sep-Nov 1902.

Papers, 1902-1975, mostly concerning Weihaiwei, northern China, including typescript notes on the history of Weihaiwei, 1934, with three printed Annual Colonial Reports entitled Weihaiwei (HMSO, London, 1902, 1920 and 1929) and edition of the Weihaiwei Government Gazette containing the Convention for the rendition of Weihaiwei (5 May 1930); various invitations, menus, concert and sports programmes, Weihaiwei, 1938-1940, with booklet in French entitled Croiseur Lamotte Picquet (Pierre Le Conte, Caen, 1929); nine typescript HM Consular Notifications by Scott Langshaw Burdett, Consul, stating official instructions and advice for British subjects in the event of a Japanese takeover of Weihaiwei, Jan-Apr 1938, with typescript memorandum by Cdr Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards, Senior Naval Officer, Weihaiwei, on emergency procedures to be adopted for communication with HM Consul, Jan 1938; eleven Japanese propaganda posters, distributed in Weihaiwei, 1938, with typescript translations; newspaper cuttings relating to Weihaiwei, 1938-1939, with edition of the North China Daily News Magazine Supplement, 8 May 1938; thirty-four typescript reports by Pomfret to Commander-in-Chief HM Ships and Vessels, China Station, on prevailing situation and conditions in Weihaiwei and on Liu Kung Tao Island, Apr 1938-Nov 1940; personal and official correspondence, 1938-1975, including letter of introduction for Pomfret to Japanese V Adm Kichisaburo Nomura, from Capt Percival Henry Gwynne James, Royal Naval Liaison Officer, Shanghai, Nov 1939, letters from Elizabeth 'Betty' Clark on the Japanese occupation of Weihaiwei, Mar 1938, and letter from Surgeon Capt Harald Ernest Bruckshaw Curjel, Royal Navy, on memories of Weihaiwei, 1975; financial statements and typescript inventories for Royal Naval establishments, Liu Kung Tao Island, Weihaiwei, 1939-1940.

Committee on Military Education, Report of the Committee appointed to consider the Education and Training of Officers of the Army (HMSO, London, 1902), including the official report and recommendations of the Committee on Military Education; Committee on Military Education, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee appointed to consider the Education and Training of Officers of the Army (HMSO, London, 1902), including interview statements from officers in the Army, most notably FM Rt Hon Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford; and Maj Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton.

Papers of Eric Templeton Lummis including correspondence, photocopies and research notes on the following topics: D-Day landings, 1944; County Regiments, Lt Col Wallace (Commander 1st Battalion Suffolk 1912-1915) and Corporal Todd (1725-1763); Lummis' pay file and Men's Pay Book, 1937-1938; typescript personal accounts: 'What did you do Grampa?', Lt Col Gough and 'A Canloan Officer' R.F. Fendick; pamphlets: 'Volunteers in Suffolk', Major ER Cooper (1935); 'The Cambridgeshire Regiment', WF Badcock [1990-1999]; 'Called Up', GJ Scriven (1976); Regimental Stretcher Bearers in Action, GJ Scriven (1972) and 'The Price of Citizenship', Ngata (1943); Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 1981-2000; Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, 1989-2000 and The Military Historical Society Special Number, 1987, 1988 and 1998.Papers of William Murrell Lummis including The Soldier's Small Book, HMSO, 1902; Soldier's Pay Book for use on Active Service, 1916-1917 and typescript extracts of First World War diary.

'A Modern Major General': the memoirs of Julian Gascoigne 1903-1990, including descriptions of training at Sandhurst and early military career with the Grenadier Guards, 1921-1927; life as ADC to Sir Stanley Jackson, Governor of Bengal, 1927-1928; companion to the sons of the Nizam of Hyderabad during their visit to London, 1931; various staff officer postings in and around London, 1939-1941; commander, 201 Guards Brigade, Egypt and Syria, including assisting General Oliver Leese in the Battle of Alamein and fighting with 8 Army in Tunis, North Africa; the invasion of Salerno, Italy, Sept 1943, and subsequent battles, including his serious lung injury at Monte Camino, subsequent hospitalisation in the UK and posting to Staff College, Camberley, 1944-1945; life as Deputy Commander of the British Army Staff at Washington, 1947-1949; work as General Officer in Command, London District, and Major General commanding the Household Brigade, including the funeral of King George VI and coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second; experiences as Governor of Bermuda, 1959-1964.

Manuscript notes by Corbett, for lectures, given at the Royal Naval War College, Portsmouth, Hampshire, between 1903-1918 relating to the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654, the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714, the Trafalgar campaign, Napoleonic Wars, 1805, the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, and combined operations. Six letters to Corbett, dated 1905, on a lecture given at the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, from Col Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Bt, and R Adm Edmund John Warre Slade. Four letters to Corbett, dated 1906-1907, on a lecture to be given at Aldershot, 1907, from Maj Gen Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton and Adm Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont. Four letters to Corbett, dated 1919-1920, on the writing of the Official History of the Great War: Naval operations (Longmans, London, 1920-1931), from Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, AF John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (former First Sea Lord) and two from AF David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, First Sea Lord.

Copy of single letter from Biddulph to a Mr Fanshawe, 13 Jun 1904, commenting on recent administrative changes at the War Office, in comparison with reforms to the British Army proposed by Edward Cardwell, Viscount Cardwell, Secretary of State for War, 1868-1874.

Summary of his military career, 1890-1932, [1932], his daughter's birth certificate, 1905, and a list of medals, papers and other items relating to Hudson received by the National Army Museum, 1980. 'Correspondence regarding the removal of the grave of Capt Granville Gower Loch CB, RN from the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma', 1924-1929, a pamphlet published at the request of MajGordon Loch in 1929.

Published memoir by Cdr Peter Francis Reid Corson: Call the Middle Watch: An Account of Life at Sea in the Royal Navy 1905 to 1963 (Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1997), narrating the naval career of his father, R Adm Eric Reid Corson (1887-1972), 1905-1941, and Cdr P F R Corson's own naval career, 1943-1963. Includes R Adm E R Corson's letters home, sketches and notes from Port Arthur, China, 1905, the West Indies, 1910, the Persian Gulf, 1913-1914, and the British Grand Fleet, 1916. Also Cdr P F R Corson's memoirs of service with the Eastern Fleet, 1944-1945, in the Persian Gulf, 1946-1948, the Malayan Emergency, 1948, Malta and Gibraltar, 1949-1950, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 1950, service as trainer, Boys Training Squadron, Rosyth, Scotland, 1952-1954, service as naval respresentative, Joint Planning Staff, Middle East, Cyprus, 1956-1958, commanding HMS RUSSELL, Fishery Protection Squad, Iceland, 1958-1962; commanding HMS BARROSA, Radar Picket ship, Far East, 1962-1968.

Bound volume of copies of Cabinet Office documents relating to the planning and conduct of Mediterranean Expeditionary Force operations in the Dardanelles, 1915. Documents include memorandum from Col Rt Hon John Edward Bernard Seely, Secretary of State for War, relating to the strategic importance of the Mediterranean, May 1912; copy of manuscript letter from Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith MP, Prime Minister and Secretary of State for War, to HM King George V, relating to requests from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force for increased reinforcements, Jun 1915; copy of typescript letter from Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Asquith requesting an immediate evacuation of British forces from the Dardanelles, Nov 1915; memo from Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Commanding Officer, ANZAC, to the Cabinet urging a renewed British effort in the Dardanelles, Nov 1915; memorandum from Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour to the Cabinet urging the British government not to abandon the Dardanelles,Nov 1915.

Papers relating to his army career, 1906-1927, notably including Naval and military despatches relating to operations in the war covering the period Sep-Nov 1914, issued by HMSO, 1914; 'Peace celebrations, 1919, victory march through London, 19th July. Orders by Field Marshal Douglas Haig', issued by HMSO, 1919.

Papers of Col Alexander Camac Wilkinson, 1906-1983, including appointment diary, 1931; typescript memoir, 'Fun and games and narrow squeaks' relating to Wilkinson's early cricketing and military career; account of service with 1 Company, 2 Bn, Coldstream Guards, 1917, with trench map, Bourlon; an account by Wilkinson as regimental Cdr of 99 Light Anti-Aircraft Regt's role in Operation HONKER, before the capture of Rome, providing smoke screens across all river crossings to protect Royal Engineers who were constructing bridges; letter on Wilkinson's thoughts on post-war Imperial development and reconstruction, 1943; letters from Wilkinson to his aunt, written from Eton, 1906-1907; social and personal correspondence, 1945-1983; correspondence relating to business and charity; correspondence and press cuttings relating to reunions, notably a visit to Graz, 1970, capital of Austrian province of Steiermark, where Wilkinson was Head of British Military Government, 1945; citation (with translation) and press cuttings relating to the presentation of an Austrian decoration to Wilkinson, 1977; photocopy of citations for Wilkinson's military decorations, with covering letter from the Ministry of Defence, 1982; maps of North West Europe, Texas and London; notes on an old cricketing friend in Australia, Jack Massie; note of thanks from Peter Thwaites, Imperial War Museum, 1980, relating to the loan for copying of an account dealing with incendiary bombs, World War Two; artefacts including an empty presentation box, with inscription to Wilkinson from 99 LAA Regt on his marriage, 1947; empty DSO medal case and Austrian medal, in original case.