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Official correspondence between Maj Ronald R Prentice, General Officer Commanding, Area 1, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, Greece, and members of the Allied Military Mission, including letters to Prentice from Capt Max Backhouse, 25-30 Jan 1944, requesting escorts for Allied reconnaissance missions to Nestoria; general situation report to Prentice from Capt H Arthur Wickstead, 10 Oct 1944; unofficial despatch sent to Prentice from US Capt Ronald J Darr, General Officer Commanding, US Operational Group 7, detailing the actions of soldier Arthur Agoritsas during an ambush near Agras, 9 Oct 1944; correspondence to Prentice from Capt David S Chapman, Royal Army Medical Corps, relating to the medical situation in the Pontokomi region and requests for medical supplies, 23 Sep-11 Oct 1944; letters to Prentice from E Wenger, International Red Cross, Edessa, requesting safe passage of Red Cross vehicles travelling from Athens to Thessoloniki via Kozani and relating to a proposed meeting between Prentice and German Colonel Ritter von Eberling to discuss the terms of German withdrawals from Greece, 25 Sep-2 Oct 1944; letter to Prentice from Capt Geoffrey Chandler relating to requests for a relief mission to Naoussa, 11 Oct 1944; situation reports from Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Vitsi sub-area commander, 11 Apr-16 Nov 1944; Prentice's withdrawal orders, 4-5 Dec 1944. 19 items.

Personal correspondence between Maj Ronald R Prentice, 1944-1955, and active or retired Allied Military Mission personnel and Greek officers mainly relating to financial assistance, re-commission or compensation. File includes letter to Prentice from Col Hon Christopher (Montague) Woodhouse relating to requests from former wireless operator Pericles Epirotis and Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) informant Maj Kostas Kifissis for assistance, [1945]; letters from former partisan Greeks detailing the domestic situation in Greece during the 1946-1949 Greek Civil War. 19 items.

Official correspondence to and from Capt H Arthur Wickstead, Officer Commanding Signals, Allied Military Mission, Area 1, West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, notably including letter to Wickstead from Maj Ronald R Prentice relating to the situation at Vermion, 12 Oct 1944; situation reports to Wickstead from Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Officer Commanding Vitsi sub-area, codenamed FERTILISER A, relating to events during Operation NOAH'S ARK, the 'Gotsi Affair', in which Bulgarian-speaking 2 Bn, 28 Regt, ELAS 9 Div, led by Gotsi Deltsif, joined Slav-Macedonian partisans to fight against Greek-ELAS soldiers in Vitsi area, Oct 1944, the interrogation of Acting Corporal Franz Brandl, German 1 Mountain Div, 14 Oct 1944, and proposed joint operations between Allied Military Mission forces and the Long Range Desert Group at Florina, 16 Oct 1944. 4 items.

Operational correspondence to and from Allied Military Mission Headquarters, West Macedonia, Greece, including correspondence to Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div Headquarters from Lt Col Arthur Edmonds, Officer Commanding Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, relating to the command of Greek troops by General Headquarters, Middle East, Cairo, Egypt, the establishment of areas under the command of ELAS, and Allied arbitration of fighting between Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES), Ethniki Kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis (EKKA) and ELAS; situation reports, 7 Apr-22 May 1944, from Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Officer Commanding Vitsi sub-area, codenamed FERTILISER A; semi-official correspondence to Lt Col Arthur Edmonds from Lt Col Nicholas Geoffery Lemprière Hammond, Allied Military Mission General Headquarters, Pertouli; situation report to Lt Col Arthur Edmonds from Capt Albert H 'Bertie' Lingen detailing situation at the Grevena aerodrome, 21 Jul 1944; letter from Gen Kalabalikis, General Officer Commanding ELAS 9 Div, to Allied Military Mission, 26 Sep 1944, concerning the passage of Allied officers and soldiers through zones occupied by ELAS or German troops. 11 items.

Capt H Arthur Wickstead's post-war partial index of signals, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, arranged thematically and chronologically, with accompanying notes. 1 file.

Harry S Truman Presidential Oral History Files is a themed microfiche collection composed of transcribed interviews relating to the professional career of Harry S Truman. From 1961 to 1989, the Harry S Truman Library conducted over 400 interviews for the oral history project, each relating to aspects of Truman's professional life, including his career as an artillery officer during World War One; district judge, 1922-1934; US Senator, 1934-1944; and President of the United States, 1945-1953. Included among the interviewees are Dean Acheson, US Secretary of State, 1949-1953; Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1963; Richard Bolling, First Secretary, Office of US Political Adviser to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Tokyo, Japan, 1950; John H Chiles, Secretary, General Staff of the Far East Command, and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, 1948-1950; Clark McAdams Clifford, Special Counsel to the President, 1946-1950; 1st Lt Lorain H Cunningham, 129 Field Artillery, US Army, 1917-1918; Edgar C Faris, Jr, Secretary to Truman as Senator of Missouri, 1935-1938; Abraham Feinberg, friend of Truman, active in the creation of the State of Israel, 1945-1948; Raymond W Goldsmith, economist, US Department of State, 1947-1949; Gordon Gray, Secretary of the Army, 1949-1950 and Special Assistant to the President, 1950; (William) Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1943-1946 and to Great Britain, 1946, Special Assistant to the President, 1950- 1951, and Chairman, NATO Commission on Defence Plans, 1951; Edwin A Locke, Jr, Personal Representative of the President to China, 1945, Special Assistant to the President, 1946-1947, and Ambassador in Charge of US Mission to the Near East, 1951-1952; Robert Abercrombie Lovett, US Secretary of Defense, 1951-1953; Sir Roger Mellor Makins, British Deputy Under Secretary of State, 1948-1952, and British Ambassador to the United States, 1953-1956; and Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, 1953-1969

Press cuttings relating to First Boer War, 1881, and the Second Boer War, 1899-1902, notably concerning the death of Gen Sir George Pomeroy Colley at the Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881; the Transvaal Crisis, 1896; the Siege of Ladysmith, Natal, 1899; British rule in South Africa, 1899; the controversy over the publication of official despatches from the campaign at Spion Kop, Natal, 1900. Press cuttings relating to the Balkans, 1908-1913, concern most notably the rise of the 'Young Turks' movement in Turkey and the restoration of the Turkish Constitution, 1908; the first anniversary of the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, 1909; the general mobilisation of Bulgarian troops along the Turkish frontier, in the prelude to the First Balkan War, 1912; the mobilisation of Turkish, Serbian, and Greek troops, 1912; the comparative strengths of the Turkish and Greek navies in the prelude to the First Balkan War, 1912; the demands of the Balkan states of Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia, and Greece to Austria-Hungary and Russia, 1912; the formal declaration of war issued by the Balkan States of Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia, and Greece to Turkey, 1912; the first battles of the First Balkan War at Lule Burgas, Bulgaria, 1912; the fall of Adrianople, Turkey, 1913; the establishment of the new border between Bulgaria and Turkey, following the defeat of Turkish forces during the First Balkan War, 1913. Press cuttings relating to Irish Home rule concern the issue of the Government of Ireland Bill, Apr 1912; the establishment of a Provisional Government for Ulster, Sep 1913; the Government of Ireland Bill, 1920; the Conference on Ireland and the formation of the Irish Free State, Oct-Dec 1921. Press cuttings relating to the British Army in Ulster primarily concern the resignation of Lt Col Rt Hon John Edward Bernard Seely MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary, and subsequently Secretary of State for War, and the Curragh Incident, Dublin, 1914

Memorandum by Pyman sent to the Adjutant 17/21 Lancers, Meerut, India with suggestions for changes to the vehicle inspection programme. With allocations of squadron commanders for vehicle inspections, marked 'A', forming appendix to Pyman's progress report on the re-organisation of the regiment, ref.1/7. Typescript, 4pp

Notes by Pyman entitled 'The technical officers remarks to Commanding Officer' relating to the conditions of the tanks and vehicles in terms of performance and state of repair, marked 'B', forming an appendix to Pyman's progress report on the re-organisation of the regiment, ref.1/7. Typescript 3pp

Text of lecture by Pyman on vehicle inspection and maintenance, includes sections on types of inspection and preparation for inspections, object of maintenance, types of maintenance and guidelines for good maintenance, marked 'C', forming appendix to Pyman's progress report on the re-organisation of the regiment, ref.1/7. Typescript, 3pp (3 copies)

Notes by Pyman entitled 'Suggestion for first line maintenance which can be carried out by an Armoured Fighting Vehicle unit' listing the repairs possible on the suspension, engine, transmission, cooling, electricity and painting. Typescript, 2pp

Notices from Adjutant 17/21 Lancers on the formation of new workshop units, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, for British cavalry reorganisation. Typescript, 5pp

Brief notes for a lecture by Pyman on 'Fire direction and control of an Armoured Fighting Vehicle'. Typescript, 1p

Notes relating to tank demonstration of Mark 6 and Mark 2B light tanks with detailed specifications for both types. Typescript, 4pp

Notes on the stages of training in a cavalry light tank regiment, including the standards and skills required for each stage of training. Typescript, 6pp

Paper entitled 'Twenty four points for drivers of military vehicles' including sections on road sense, vehicle control, driving. Typescript, 1p (2 copies)

The white lancer and the vedette, the regimental journal of the 17/21 Lancers, No. 1 April 1939, including on pages 6-7 an article on Pyman's work with the Royal Tank Corps Cadre and the 17/21 Lancers and on page 2 a note about Pyman leaving for Staff College. With note to Liddell Hart accompanying the journal. Journal and typescript letter, 1p

Letter from Pyman to Brig Thomas William Corbett, Maj Gen Cavalry, Army Headquarters India relating to Indian mobile forces responding to proposals by Corbett in a previous letter. With Pyman's views on the proposed Indian armoured forces; the Light Tank as the basis of Indian armed forces; the basic components of a modern armoured force. Typescript, 10pp

Notes on general considerations and actual conduct of armoured combat including tactical principles, Armoured Fighting Vehicle manoeuvre, Armoured Fighting Vehicle gunnery, the enemy, planning, advance to contact, pursuit or withdrawal. Typescript, 12pp