Item KENNEDY, JN 4/2/2 - Diary, Aug 1939 - Dec 1940, relating to service as Director of Plans, War Office, 1939, and as Director of Military Operations and Plans from Oct 1940

Loose-leaf manuscript diary, relating to Kennedy's service as Director of Plans, War Office, London, Sep-Dec 1939, acting as War Office member of the Joint Planning Committee, including details of his contacts with the Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, Gen Sir (William) Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Commander-in-Chief, BEF (British Expeditionary Force); his visit to British front line positions in North-East France, in company with the Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, Nov 1939; notes written both in hospital and while recuperating after an accident, Nov 1939-Feb 1940; notes on Kennedy's suggested appointment as Chief of Staff of Force Avonmouth, the abortive Franco-British expedition to Narvik, Norway, planned for 16 Mar 1940, Mar 1940 and his appointment as Director of Military Operations and Plans, War Office, Oct 1940, including reports of conversations with Gen Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. 1 file.