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Reference code
KIRKE 1/1/2
Title
War Office paper on the role of the RAF, 1921, with proposals for improving relations between the War Office and the Air Ministry
Date(s)
- 1921 Feb (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
17pp
Scope and content
Paper on the role of the RAF produced by the General Staff of the War Office discussing the creation of the RAF in 1918, the reasons for its creation and the conflict that had developed between the Air Ministry and the Army over the Air Ministry's plans to end the dual control of the RAF in peacetime by the Air Ministry and the Army. With the General Staff's proposals for improving relations between the War Office and the Air Ministry. Typescript 17pp
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Existence and location of originals
The original version of Kirke's autobiographical notes, an edited version of which was reproduced in _Army Quarterly and Defence Journal _of Oct 85 Jan 86 and Apr 86 is located at the Imperial War Museum, London, (Ref 84/14/1)