Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1948 Mar (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; papers on Exercise INTERMEZZO on inter-service co-operation; paper on the Arab Legion and Transjordan; letter to Pyman from Brig J H Anstice, Commander Headquarters Cyprus relating to a Joint Intelligence Committee paper on Russian support for illegal Jewish immigration; letter from Pyman to Maj Gen Alfred Dudley Ward, Director of Military Operations on the military withdrawal from Palestine and arrangements for guarding the United Nations Commission and staff; paper on the composition of the Transjordan Joint Defence Board; note from Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces (MELF), on the object and operation of the Chief of Staff system; paper from meeting with Brig (Hon Maj Gen) James Malcolm Leslie Renton relating to the withdrawal of the British Military Mission to Iraq; draft signal message to Ministry of Defence recommending early withdrawal from Palestine. 1 file