Key Information
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Title
Date(s)
- 1914-1948 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
0.13 cubic metres (8 boxes including 2 outsize; 5 outsize packages)
Scope and content
Papers, 1914-1948, of FM George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, County Aberdeen, including personal ephemera, photographs, and documents relating to his career during World War One and after. The collection includes typescript War Diaries, Army of Black Sea, 1915-1917, containing an official daily record of events; file on Salonika, 1916, containing typescript messages concerning military events; typescript Summary of Information, General Staff (Operations), Army of Black Sea, Oct 1916-Dec 1918; typescript Despatches of General Officer Commanding, Nov 1918-1920; file, 1925-1936, on defence issues including printed and typescript papers on mechanisation and on the role of the RAF and Army; telegrams and letters of appointment and congratulation on various appointments, honours and decorations, 1918-1948; papers relating to royal events, including the coronation of HM King George VI, 1937; memorabilia, including winged statue of victory given to Milne by the Greek government and desk set, incorporating bullets, inscribed 'LONG LIVE ENGLAND LONG LIVE YUGOSLAVES SALONICA 1918'; papers relating to Milne's death in 1948, including obituaries.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1866; educated at the Gymnasium, Old Aberdeen, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1885; service with 1/Q Battery (renumbered 38 Battery in 1889), Royal Field Artillery, Trimulgherri, India, 1885-1889; service with D Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1889-1891; service with C Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, Meerut, India, 1891-1895; Capt, 1895; service with 2 Company, Southern Division, Royal Garrison Artillery, Malta, 1895-1896; Battery Capt, 37 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Hilsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1896-1897; service in the Sudan, 1898; Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, Sep 1898; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Maj, 1900; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, South Africa, 1900-1902; Brevet Lt Col, 1902; awarded DSO, 1902; Deputy Quartermaster General (Intelligence) and General Staff Officer 2, Army Headquarters, 1903-1907; Brevet Col, 1905; Officer Commanding, 59 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Brighton, Sussex, 1907-1908; General Staff Officer 2, North Midland Div, Territorial Force, Northern Command, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 1908-1909; Col, 1909; General Staff Officer 1, 6 Div, Irish Command, Cork, 1909-1913; awarded CB, 1912; Brig Gen, Royal Artillery, 4 Div, Eastern Command, Woolwich, 1913-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Brig Gen, Royal Artillery, 4 Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1914-1915; Brig Gen, General Staff, 3 Corps, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1915; Maj Gen, 1915; Maj Gen, General Staff, 2 Army, BEF, Western Front, 1915; General Officer Commanding 27 Div, BEF, France, and Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Macedonia, 1915; temporary Lt Gen, 1915; General Officer Commanding 16 Corps, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Salonika, 1915-1916; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief British Salonika Force and British Army of the Black Sea, 1916-1920; Lt Gen, 1917; created KCB, 1918; temporary Gen, 1918-1920; Col Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1918-1948; created KCMG, 1919; created GCMG, 1919; Gen, 1920; Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1920-1923; Freeman of the City of Aberdeen, 1921; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, 1923-1926; Aide de Camp General to HM King George V, 1923-1927; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1926-1933; created GCB, 1927; FM, 1928; Master Gunner, St James's Park, 1929-1946; retired, 1933; created 1st Baron Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw, County Aberdeen, 1933; Governor and Constable of the Tower of London, 1933-1938; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service in the Home Guard and Civil Defence, 1940-1944; Col Commandant, Pioneer Corps, 1940-1945; military correspondent for The Sunday Chronicle , 1941-1944; died, 1948.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by Milne's family in 1980.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
Script of material
Uploaded finding aid
Related materials
Publication note
Uncle George: Field Marshal Lord Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw by Graham Nicol (Reedminster Publications, London, 1976).
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- George VI, 1895-1952, King of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Army of Black Sea (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Compiled by Iain Mutch; revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.