Item LIDDELL HART 15/5/300 - Copies of papers by Captain Orde Wingate concerning Palestine, 1938, with related papers, 1949-1965

Typescript copies of papers by Capt (later Maj Gen) Orde Charles Wingate, General Staff Officer 1, Palestine, 1938, including memorandum entitled 'Appreciation by Captain O C Wingate, of Force HQ Intelligence on 5 Jun 1938 at Nazareth of the possibilities of night movements by armed forces of the Crown with the object of putting an end to terrorism in northern Palestine'; memorandum entitled 'Principles governing the employment of Special Night Squads', Nazareth, Palestine, 10 Jun 1938; final page of memorandum entitled 'Drill' on procedures for ambushes, Jun 1938; memorandum entitled 'Note on the development of Special Night Squads, by Captain O C Wingate at RAF Hospital, Sarafand [Zerifin] on 14 Jul 1938';'Report of operation carried out by Special Night Squads on the night of 11-12 Jul 1938, by Captain O C Wingate, O C, SNS [Officer Commanding, Special Night Squads]', RAF Hospital, Sarafand, 22 Jul 1938; memorandum entitled 'Additions to Standing Orders for SNS. Village fighting', Haifa, 3 Aug 1938; memorandum entitled 'Organisation and training of Special Night Squads', HQ 16 Infantry Bde, Aug 1938; memorandum entitled 'Action of Special Night Squads on night 3-4 Sep 1938', Ain Herod, 4 Sep 1938. With copy letter of introduction from Liddell Hart to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill concerning Wingate, 11 Nov 1938, and correspondence with Maj Gen (Donald) Derek (Cuthbertson) Tulloch, on a proposed biography of Wingate, later published as Wingate in peace and war...(MacDonald, London, 1972), Nov-Dec 1965; correspondence with Mordecai R Kidron, Chargé d'Affaires, Legation of Israel, London, and R R Loew, Director of the Archives, Israel Defence Forces, on the sale of the above papers by Liddell Hart to the Israeli National Archives, Sep 1949-Jun 1950. 1 file