Key Information
Reference code
KENNEDY, JN 4/2/3
Title
Diary, 1941, as Director of Military Operations and Plans, War Office
Date(s)
- 1941 Jan-Dec (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Loose-leaf manuscript diary, relating to Kennedy's service as Director of Military Operations and Plans, War Office, London, covering all aspects of his senior role in planning British military strategy, including details of his contacts with Gen Sir John Greer Dill and Gen Sir Alan Francis Brooke, successively Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff, the Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia and French General Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle. 1 file.