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(Untitled), 30 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/82-83
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, reciting an appreciation of 22 April 1942 by the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Tovey]: Tovey comments on the German Fleet, the importance of the sea approaches to the British Isles and the possibility of withdrawal of United States naval forces; concludes that British forces in home waters must be strong enough to retain control and be able to engage German Fleet; comments on the adverse effect...
Dates:
30 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 02 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/96-97
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] opposing American proposals for increasing convoys to the Soviet Union: argues that a reduction in transatlantic escorts might have "disastrous consequences"; argues that the difficulty of Soviet convoys cannot be solved merely by anti-submarine craft and describes recent loss and damage to British ships; states that six ships from Iceland have already arrived at the Clyde [Scotland] and that three convoys every two...
Dates:
02 May 1942
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(Untitled), 02 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/99-100
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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India] to WSC complaining that he is not being kept sufficiently informed about decisions affecting India; comments on the inability of R class battleships to face the Japanese fleet; states that he was not consulted about "Ironclad" [codename for operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar] and comments on the need for the 5th Division in India.
Dates:
02 May 1942
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(Untitled), 05 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/119-121
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India: undertakes to keep Wavell more fully informed of the whole picture and states that Lieutenant-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC] has responsibility for this; comments on "Operation Ironclad" [codename for operation against Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; comments on naval strength in the Indian Ocean; comments on the effect of damage to HMS King George V and the presence of the German battleship Tirpitz...
Dates:
05 May 1942
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(Untitled), 15 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/75/34-35
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief India, marked "most secret" outlining objectives for the war in the Far East: comments on the transfer of troops from Madagascar; comments on plans to assemble the whole Eastern Fleet at Colombo [Ceylon, later Sri Lanka] and Port Trincomalee [Ceylon, later Sri Lanka] before the middle of July and to recover effective control of the Bay of Bengal [Indian Ocean]; suggests that these dispositions will facilitate offensive...
Dates:
15 May 1942
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(Untitled), 07 Sep [1919]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/106/82
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Letter from Lord Grey of Fallodon [earlier Sir Edward Grey] (Fallodon, Lensbury, Northumberland) to WSC on the importance of the navy estimates and his decision not to take his nephew Cecil Graves away from his work in the War Office by offering him a temporary job in Washington.
Dates:
07 Sep [1919]
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From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 27 Jun 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/105/97-98
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Letter from [WSC] to Walter Long [later Lord Long] praising the work at the Admiralty and in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Thomas Jackson and noting that he has received no formal recognition of his war service. Thanks Long for his support that morning. Typescript copy.
Dates:
27 Jun 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 04 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/106/22-24
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Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] on the need to form the Cabinet, to tax war profits, to cut Government spending, to define future role of the Army, Navy and Air Force and assign the appropriate resources, to check unnecessary spending by the Admiralty, preferably by bringing the Navy as well as the other two services under a Ministry of Defence. Copy in WSC's hand.
Dates:
04 Aug 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 13 Jun 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/76/103-104
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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India] to WSC marked "most secret" regarding British naval forces in the Indian Ocean: comments on the intentions of Admiral Sir James Somerville [Commander-in- Chief, Eastern Fleet] and states that he is sending a general appreciation; comments on communications with Admiral Somerville; states that he was informed of damage to HMS Ramillies by Naval Headquarters in India and asks about the final composition and assembly of the...
Dates:
13 Jun 1942
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(Untitled), 26 Jun 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/26
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Telegram from Admiral Henry Harwood [Commander in Chief Mediterranean] to WSC denying reports of evacuation by Royal Navy from Egypt but defending the movement of certain ships through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea and stating that he hopes to get the Queen Elizabeth away tomorrow.
Dates:
26 Jun 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 28 Jun 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/34-36
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Telegram from the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "personal and most secret" reporting on the battle in North Africa: States that General Claude Auchinleck [Commander in Chief Middle East] is telegraphing him directly and regularly from Eighth Army Headquarters; comments on Auchinleck's plan of campaign ; states that the battle will be a mobile one fought between Matruh [Egypt] and El Alamein [Egypt] and southwards to the Qattara depression [Egypt];...
Dates:
28 Jun 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1944 - 31 Jan 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/1
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Henry Wilson [Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre]; Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the...
Dates:
02 Jan 1944 - 31 Jan 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/4
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; General Sir Bernard Montgomery [General Officer Commanding the Eighth Army]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General Francis...
Dates:
01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/1
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service].Subjects covered by the minutes...
Dates:
01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1943 - 30 Sep 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/3
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1943. Some written by WSC when in Canada and the United States.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, particularly Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; President Roosevelt; Harry Hopkins [Special...
Dates:
01 Sep 1943 - 30 Sep 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/4
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob and Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including...
Dates:
02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1943 - 31 Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/5
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November and December 1943. Some written by WSC when in the Middle East [and Carthage, Tunisia, and Marrakesh, Morocco].Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's...
Dates:
01 Nov 1943 - 31 Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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(Untitled), 23 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/219/114-115
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Telegram from Acting Prime Minister of Australia [Joseph Chifley] to WSC marked "Top Secret" outlining the reasons for limitations in Australia's ability to contribute to the British Pacific Fleet, in light of a recent Conference convened by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Dates:
23 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 16 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/57
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Telegram from Acting Prime Minister of Australia [Joseph Chifley] to WSC marked "Top Secret" stating that the [Australian] War Cabinet and the Advisory War Council have decided not to proceed with the transfer of three Royal Navy ships to the Royal Australian Navy as a war project.
Dates:
16 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/241/145
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Proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Raid on military and economic objectives in the Lofoten Islands [Norway]", March 1941, including contemporary despatches and reports from individuals including Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (4 April), Captain [Clifford] Caslon, Sixth Destroyer Flotilla (8 March), and Brigadier [Joseph] Haydon, Commanding Special Service Brigade (13 March), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's...
Dates:
1948
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: Naval Operations, 1940-45: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/241/146
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Proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Transportation to and Evacuation of the Army from Greece", March to April 1941, reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (11 December and 7 July 1941), Rear Admiral [Harold] Baillie-Grohman, Flag Officer Attached Middle East (15 May), and Vice-Admiral [Henry] Pridham-Whippel [Second in Command Mediterranean Fleet] (5 May), with later Admiralty footnotes....
Dates:
1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: Naval Operations, 1940-45: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), [1948]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/241/148-156
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Page proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "The Carrier Borne Aircraft Attack on Kirkenes [Norway] and Petsamo [Finland]", July and August 1941, reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (12 September), Rear Admiral [William] Wake-Walker, Commanding First Cruiser Squadron (15 August), Captain [Arthur] Talbot, HMS Furious (5 August), and Captain [Henry] Bovell, HMS Victorious, with later Admiralty footnotes....
Dates:
[1948]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: Naval Operations, 1940-45: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), [1948]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/241/157-162
Scope and Contents
Page proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Raid on military and economic objectives in the vicinity of Vaagso Island [Norway]", 27 December 1941, reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (7 January 1942), and Brigadier [Joseph] Haydon and Rear Admiral [Harold] Burrough, Commanders, Operation "Archery" (2 January 1942), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].
Dates:
[1948]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: Naval Operations, 1940-45: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/241/163
Scope and Contents
Note from "G R G A" [Commodore George Gordon Allen] to WSC commenting on the despatches concerning Mediterranean convoy operations to Malta, suggesting the most important operation was "Pedestal" in August 1942. [initialled; annotated by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly].
Dates:
14 Jun 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: Naval Operations, 1940-45: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), [1948]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/241/167-210
Scope and Contents
Page proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Mediterranean Convoy Operations", 1941 to 1942, reprinting contemporary despatches from Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station (19 March 1941) on operation "Excess", Vice-Admiral Sir James Somerville, Flag Officer Commanding Force H (4 August 1941) on operations "Substance" and (9 October 1941) "Halberd", Vice-Admiral Sir Alban Curteis, Senior Officer Force T, (24 June 1942) and Captain C C...
Dates:
[1948]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: Naval Operations, 1940-45: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"].