Item KENNEDY, JN 4/2/5 - Diary, Jan-Nov 1943, as Director of Military Operations and Plans, War Office, and as Assistant CIGS from Oct 1943

Loose-leaf manuscript diary, relating to Kennedy's service as Director of Military Operations and Plans and (from Oct 1943) Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office, London, covering all aspects of his senior role in planning British military strategy, including details of his contacts with Gen Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, FM Sir John Greer Dill, Head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington DC, US, the Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister, Gen Bernard Law Montgomery, Commander, 8 Army and notes of an Army Council luncheon at the Dorchester Hotel, London given on behalf of FM Jan Christiaan Smuts, General Officer Commanding, Union Defence Forces in the Field, 10 Nov 1943. 1 file.