Key Information
Reference code
KIGGELL 2/6
Title
Letter from General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson to Kiggell, Dec 1917, on subjects including the possible use of British troops in support of the French, and German planning for 1918
Date(s)
- 1917 Dec 12 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
4pp
Scope and content
Letter from temporary Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, British Military Representative, Supreme War Council at Versailles, requesting news of a meeting between Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, a member of the War Cabinet, and FM Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France; attempts by the British Section of the Supreme War Council to agree on the relief of the French line by British troops; a war game designed to predict possible time, strength and place of German attacks in 1918. 4pp.