Item LIDDELL HART 15/5/122 - War Office press releases, 1948-1952, on subjects including senior defence appointments and training exercises

Press releases and papers issued by the War Office, 1948-1952, including text of speeches by FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein in Aug 1948 at Blackpool, Lancashire on National Service and at Blackpool and Fylde Agricultural Show on food production targets; senior military appointments and biographical notes, including Gen Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, Gen Sir Allan Francis (John) Harding, Lt Gen John Francis Martin Whiteley, Lt Gen Sir Robert Mansergh and Gen Sir Brian Hubert Robertson; schedules for army manoeuvres and exercises, including MERRY WIDOW, involving assault crossings of the Thames at Pangbourne, Berkshire, Sep 1951; list of personnel involved in the trial of FM Fritz von Manstein in Hamburg, Aug 1949; recruitment statistics for the Territorial Army, 1949-1950; text of broadcast for BBC Home Service 'The mark of greatness' by FM Sir William Joseph Slim, Jan 1951. 1 file