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- 1921 May 9 (Creation)
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31pp
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Memorandum prepared by the General Staff on the present and future role of the RAF in Imperial Defence and its relations in co-operation with the Army. Sections are general principles, characteristics of aircraft, points raised in air staff memorandum Committee of Imperial Defence paper 135 C of Mar 1921, defence against invasion from the sea, maintenance of order, defence in the air, disadvantages of the present system of air control, proposals for future organisation of the air force and the division of responsibility between the War Office and the Air Ministry, comparison of American and French systems with that of the British. With amendments, marginal notes and one page of manuscript notes. Typescript, 31pp
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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)