Armed forces
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:
Item
(Untitled), [03] [Jan] [1941]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/134
Scope and Contents
Appendix "E" [to CHAR 20/258A/125-131] setting out figures for RAF "Gains and Losses of Operational Types".
Dates:
[03] [Jan] [1941]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
Item
(Untitled), Apr 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258B/150
Scope and Contents
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC comparing totals of operational aircraft for the German Air Force and the RAF. [Copy; given running number 269].
Dates:
Apr 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
Item
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1941
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258B/154
Scope and Contents
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on future bombing strategy and the advantages of the heavy bomber. [Copy; given running number 272].
Dates:
10 Apr 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
Unknown
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1915
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/97/10-12
Scope and Contents
Typescript copy of a letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] agreeing with Colonel [Maurice] Hankey's comments on "special mechanical devices for taking trenches"; describing the impact of trench warfare on military theory and weapons; urging the deployment of steam tractors equipped with armoured shelters, trials of "shields on wheels", systematic use of artificial smoke, and stressing the importance of swift development and production of new weapons. Unsigned annotated with...
Dates:
05 Jan 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 4-6 Aug 1950
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/28/45-51
Scope and Contents
Copy of a covering letter from WSC to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, marked "private" sending on two enclosures and undertaking to support the government on national defence, while reserving the right to criticise the Government on defence spending, and suggesting a recall of Parliament at the end of August.Includes enclosures: A copy of a note by WSC (dated 4 August) suggesting a plan for creating an emergency army for Western Europe, including the need for increased length of service by...
Dates:
4-6 Aug 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents
Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
Dates:
27 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
War Cabinet Paper, 08 Dec 1940
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/4/11
Scope and Contents
Printed copy of a letter from WSC to President Roosevelt setting out the prospects for 1941 covering various subjects including: shared interests between Great Britain and the United States; the importance of sea and air power against Germany; reassurance about not requesting a large expeditionary army from the United States; the crucial importance of shipping to feed people and transport munitions and armies; shipping losses; battleship strength; the dangers posed by the Vichy French...
Dates:
08 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
War letters A - K, 1914-01 - 1916-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/3
Scope and Contents
Letters to LSA from correspondents including: John Arkwright; George Auden, School Medical Officer, City of Birmingham, on rejection of recruits because of their teeth; John Baird, assistant to the Military Mission with the Belgian Field Army [later 1st Lord Stonehaven] on opposition to National Service, particularly harm done by the advocacy of 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth] and the attitude of Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War]; Stanley Baldwin;...
Dates:
1914-01 - 1916-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
War letters L - Z, 1914-09 - 1916-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/4
Scope and Contents
Letters to LSA from correspondents including: General Sir Henry Wilson [Assistant Chief of General Staff, Expeditionary Forces in France] on subjects including his opposition to the Dardanelles Campaign, the Balkans, chances of Bulgaria joining the war, the lack of political leadership, and the failure to break the German line on the Western Front (13); [Amelius] Mark Lockwood [earlier Mark Wood]; George Lloyd, describing events at the Dardanelles, and on action to be taken if Bulgaria...
Dates:
1914-09 - 1916-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
War letters (unfiled), 1914-05 - 1916-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/5
Scope and Contents
Letters to LSA from correspondents including: [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on compromising with the Government over federalism for Ulster [Northern Ireland] and the poor promotion prospects for LSA as a Unionist in David Lloyd-George's Government (2); Hamar Greenwood on LSA's recruitment scheme; Frederick Oliver on the collapse of the Government and on the Liberals raising the question of National Service (4); George Lloyd on where he would be useful following the end of the Dardanelles...
Dates:
1914-05 - 1916-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
War Office, 1937 - 1940, 1959
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection, though small, is interesting as no other papers appear to have been left by Hore-Belisha. It comprises letters, diaries, some photographs and documents (mainly copies) covering most of Hore-Belisha's career but concentrating on his most important position as War Minister from 1937-1939 and particularly the events surrounding his dismissal by Neville Chamberlain.
Dates:
1937 - 1940; 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
File
War Office August-September 1914: Montagu House Committee, 1914-09 - 1947-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/10
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence, particularly on the Montagu House Central Committee for co-ordinating the work of Territorial Associations in connection with the new army recruits. Correspondents include: Lord Midleton [former Secretary of State for War, earlier William Brodrick] on difficulties in recruitment; Sir Herbert Creedy [former Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War] on his recollections of the committee (2); General Sir Henry Wilson [Assistant Chief of General Staff,...
Dates:
1914-09 - 1947-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
War Office August-September 1914: recruiting campaign, 1914-08 - 1916-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers on the progress of LSA's recruitment campaign for the Army and Territorial Army, with correspondents including: Basil Peto; M R Ludlow, Special Recruiting Officer, Birmingham [Warwickshire] (4); Sir Hugh Bell; William Joynson-Hicks, Chairman of the Automobile Association and Motor Union [earlier William Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford] on providing cars for staff officers (2); Jesse Collings, President of the Rural League on using the League's village agents for...
Dates:
1914-08 - 1916-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Unknown
"Wars are not won by evacuations", 04 Jun 1940
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/140A/9-28
Scope and Contents
Typescript copy of notes for WSC's speech on the fall of Belgium and surrender of King [Leopold] of Belgium; the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk [France]; the successes of the RAF; losses of men and weaponry; military development and the possibility of German invasion. Speech includes the phrase "We shall fight on the beaches . . . We shall never surrender".Carbon typescript copy with some manuscript annotations in ink [not by WSC] laid out in "psalm style" apart...
Dates:
04 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Management Group
Whittle : file of papers relating to dealings with Frank Whittle's company, Power Jets. BT-H 'Special File no. 14750. Power Jets. Quantity Production'
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WHITTLE
Scope and Contents
Letters, blueprints, drawings, orders, memoranda, telegrams.
Dates:
1940-01-26 - 1941-06-04
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
File
Willcox Report on the Indian Army, 1945 - 1988-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/106
Scope and Contents
Copy of the report of the Willcox Committee on the Reorganization of the Army and Air Forces in India (1944-45), with correspondence on copying JEP's version of the report. Correspondents include: General Sir John Chapple (5); representatives of the India Office Library and Records department, British Library (3).
Also includes: copy of a letter to JEP from Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck on the report (1948) [original at POLL 1/3/38].
Dates:
1945 - 1988-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.