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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/15/59-62
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Telegram from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel], (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, Norfolk) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil tankers. [See CHAR 13/16/100 for typescript copy].
Dates:
16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 22 Sep 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/15/63-64
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the work of the Commission, enclosing a leaflet showing the composition of sub-committees on "Engines and Hulls of Warships and Oil tank Vessels", the "Quality and Supply of Oil" and "Storage". [See CHAR 13/16/101 for typescript copy].
Dates:
22 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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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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From the File:
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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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From the File:
Open
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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), 30 Jun 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/44
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Admiral Henry Harwood [Commander in Chief Mediterranean] marked "personal and secret" thanking him for his telegram: "I quite understand.".
Dates:
30 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), 30 Jun 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/47
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "personal and most secret" reporting on the latest situation in Egypt and commenting on RAF mobilisation, arrangements for the defence of the Delta, and the plans of Admiral Henry Harwood [Commander in Chief Mediterranean] for supporting the Eighth Army and evacuating merchant shipping from Alexandria [Egypt].
Dates:
30 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), 03 Jul 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/54
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" regarding the French fleeet in Alexandria [Egypt]: states that French ships must be made to obey the orders of the British Naval Commander in Chief [ Admiral Henry Harwood] if and when he orders them through the Suez Canal; agrees that they will be offered protective custody of the United States on emerging from the Canal; confirms that action will not be taken until the land battle has been lost.
Dates:
03 Jul 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), 08 Jul 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/97-98
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret and personal" regarding the fate of the French fleet at Alexandria [Egypt]: Outlines concerns voiced by Admiral Henry Harwood [Commander in Chief Mediterranean] about repercussions that would follow on the sinking of the French ships; Suggests that Harwood be allowed to offer Admiral Rene Godfrey the alternative of sailing through the Suez Canal to Portugese East Africa or Martinique where fleet...
Dates:
08 Jul 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), 09 Jul 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/108
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] marked "most secret and personal" regarding the fate of the French warships at Alexandria [Egypt]: states that he is sending Casey the texts of telegrams exchanged between himself and President Roosevelt [see CHAR 20/77/109-110]; states that Casey must explain to Admiral Henry Harwood [Commander in Chief Mediterranean] that the ships must not be allowed to sail for Bizerta [Tunisia].
Dates:
09 Jul 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), 21 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/85
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "most secret and personal" stating his belief that the danger of offensive action by the French fleet would be reduced by the presence of United States warships in the Mediterranean, and suggesting the temporary attachment for four or five days of four American destroyers to British naval units, to be replaced in the American Atlantic flotilla by a corresponding number of British destroyers.
Dates:
21 Oct 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), 24 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/91
Scope and Contents
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "most secret" regarding WSC's proposal for an interchange of destroyers, and stating that the detailed plans for the use of American destroyers in "Torch" [code name for Anglo-American invasion of French north west Africa] make it impossible to substitute British destroyers in the time available. Comments on the possibility of an exchange immediately after the assault phase.
Dates:
24 Oct 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
Scope and Contents
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:
Open
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/4
Scope and Contents
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:
Open
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(Untitled), 10 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/84/109
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] marked "most secret and personal" commenting on the arrangements to return the 9th Division to Australia from the Middle East and on plans to make two more aircraft carriers available in the Pacific.
Dates:
10 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jun 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/86/6
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC (Washington [United States]) to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] and Chiefs of Staff referring to previous telegrams and confirming that Admiral Ernest King [Commander in Chief United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations] has agreed to the Tuscaloose, Wichita and four destroyers operating with the Home Fleet until the completion of the naval convoys to Malta and Northern Russia.
Dates:
25 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), 17 Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/41
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] marked "most secret and personal" instructing him to cable a report on HMS Indomitable and asking, "How long do we lose her for?".
Dates:
17 Aug 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), 17 Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/47
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to First Lord of the Admiralty [Albert Alexander, later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] asking them to convey his compliments to Admiral Neville Syfret, Admiral Harold Burrough, Admiral Lumley Lyster and all officers and men engaged "in the magnificent crash through of supplies to Malta", and commenting on the reports in the papers regarding the number of enemy aircraft shot down which do not take account of those...
Dates:
17 Aug 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), 17 Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/48
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] marked "most secret and personal" suggesting that, in view of the damage to HMS Indomitable, he should consider bringing home one of the two aircraft carriers from the Indian Ocean after the completion of "Stream-line-Jane".
Dates:
17 Aug 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), 23 Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/74
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Private Office for First Lord of the Admiralty [Albert Alexander, later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and First sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] referring to the loss of the Australian Cruiser "Canberra" and asking them to consider the gift of a similar ship to the Royal Australian Navy.
Dates:
23 Aug 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), 20 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94A/33-34
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Secretary of State for Air] marked "Secret" stating: that he hopes that he is not refusing to allow the War Cabinet to inquire into the use of manpower in the Royal Air Force; that a similar examination has already been carried out about eight months ago; that he has received a letter from A V Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough, the First Lord of the Admiralty] saying that the Admiralty would welcome an inquiry on...
Dates:
20 Jul 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open.
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(Untitled), 22 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/96B/158
Scope and Contents
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes (Tingewick House, Buckingham) [Conservative MP for Portsmouth] to A V Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough, 1st Lord of the Admiralty] recommending that he urge Clement Attlee to take note of the advice given in Keyes' minutes to the War Cabinet and WSC. He states that locking up 5 fast transports at Sierra Leone was deplorable; that the Japanese are demonstrating the proper use of amphibious power; that the War Cabinet, due to...
Dates:
22 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/1
Scope and Contents
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:
Open
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1943 - 30 Sep 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/3
Scope and Contents
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:
Open