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(Untitled), 25 Mar 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/89/33
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Letter from Lord Kitchener (War Office) to WSC stating that preparations for land operations [at the Dardanelles] are continuing and hoping that the Navy will engage the forts vigorously so that the Turks expend their ammunition. Typescript copy annotated by WSC for inclusion in a publication.

Dates: 25 Mar 1915
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), [Dec] [1915]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/89/35-36
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Part of a letter [from WSC] justifying the increase of establishments in the naval dockyards and thanking the recipient of the letter for his support over the past year. Typescript copy.

Dates: [Dec] [1915]
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 Aug 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/90/29
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Declaration by Captain Fawcet Wray of the Royal Navy defending himself against allegations of cowardice and default made at the Court of Enquiry and Court Martial on Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge for allowing the 'Goeben' to escape. Sent with CHAR 2/90/28.

Dates: 03 Aug 1917
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), 19 Aug 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/90/30-31
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Letter from WSC (Lullenden) to [David Lloyd George] denying that he said anything indiscreet during a recent conversation on naval affairs with Rear-Admiral William Sims of the United States Navy and stating that the First Sea Lord [Sir Eric Geddes] should have contacted him if he had heard reports of his words giving the contrary impression. Draft in WSC's hand.

Dates: 19 Aug 1917
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 Sep 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/3/25a
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Cutting from the Morning Post, report on speech by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord St Aldwyn to his constituents in Clifton, on the Education Bill, resistance to the payment of Rates, the growth of national expenditure and the reform of the Army and Navy.

Dates: 30 Sep 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Feb 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/4/35-45
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Letter from Captain R. Temperley, 3rd Volunteer Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers, enclosing notes on Volunteer reform and its relation to the reduction of Military expenditure, and the co-ordination of naval and military forces.

Dates: 22 Feb 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/2/11
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Letter from Lord Charles Beresford [later Lord Beresford] to WSC, asking him to be in the House of Commons to support his efforts to control waste and extravagance in the armed services.

Dates: 17 Jun 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/48
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Letter from C.J. Balaam to WSC, asking for help in obtaining post as Assistant Paymaster in the Royal Navy.

Dates: 06 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Feb 1904]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/56
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Letter from Frederick Willson to WSC, enclosing copy of cutting from the Belfast News-Letter, a letter from the Navy League on problems with the sights and mountings of the armament of major warships.

Dates: [Feb 1904]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/94-95
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Samuel Lamb, on possible points of difference between himself and the Liberals, particularly the Licensing Question, Disestablishment and Disendowment, and the need for reform of the Education Act, giving his opinion that the election would be fought on four main issues, (1) Free Trade, (2) Retrenchment and the reorganisaton of finance on strict Gladstonian principles, (3) Reduction in size and cost of the Army and the Navy, (4) a copmplete re-organisation of the Army...
Dates: 26 Mar 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Aug 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/22
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Letter from C G Stirling (30 Launceston Place, Palace Gate, [London]) to WSC complaining about the conversion of HMS Renown into a yacht to carry the Prince of Wales to India and asking WSC to table a question about it. Annotated by WSC: "no use till Parlt meets. Then too late.".

Dates: 09 Aug 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1907]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/6-7
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Naval questions: printed letter [by Admiral Sir John Fisher, later Lord Fisher] on the need for economy in the naval estimates.

Dates: [1907]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Apr 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/8
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Printed programme for an inspection of warships and submarines in Portsmouth Harbour [Hampshire]. [Sent with CHAR 2/32/11; duplicate at CHAR 2/32/36].

Dates: 29 Apr 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Nov 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/10
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Cutting from the Times: speech by Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] the Guildhall Banquet on the state of the Navy. Sent with CHAR 2/32/16.

Dates: 11 Nov 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Dec 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/13
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Letter from Rear-Admiral F S Inglefield (commanding the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, HMS Euryalus, at sea, off Sardinia) to Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] enclosing a letter from Inglefield to the First Lord of the Admiralty [2nd Lord Tweedmouth] praising the performance of the battleship Dreadnought [see CHAR 2/32/14]. Typescript copy.

Dates: 20 Dec 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Dec 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/14-15
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Letter from Rear-Admiral F S Inglefield (commanding the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, HMS Euryalus, at sea, off Sardinia) to 2nd Lord Tweedmouth praising the performance of the battleship "Dreadnought". Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/32/13.

Dates: 20 Dec 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jan 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/16
Scope and Contents Letter from Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] (Admiralty) to WSC reporting that Admiral Charles Beresford "is doing his best to raise a mutiny", that he has had dinner with F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead], [?Sir Edward] Carson [later Lord Carson], Rufus Isaacs [later 1st Lord Reading] and [?John] Simon, "who I lost my heart to completely", that he (Fisher) has been "slayed" by the King [Edward VII] and others for his speech on the Navy at the Guildhall but that David Lloyd...
Dates: 09 Jan 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Feb 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/19
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Letter from Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] (Admiralty) to WSC reporting that he has had to keep clear of WSC and David Lloyd George and referring to his problems at the Admiralty. Hopes Lloyd George will make a declaration in favour of maintaining the Navy's maritime supremacy. Typescript copy of this letter at CHAR 2/32/34.

Dates: 13 Feb 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Feb 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/27
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Letter from Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] (Admiralty) to WSC asserting that there is no margin for cuts in the naval estimates.

Dates: 28 Feb 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Mar 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/30
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Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] on Reginald McKenna's suggestion in Cabinet that WSC had been guilty of improper behaviour by discussing naval policy with Fisher. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Dates: 04 Mar 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Apr 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/36
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Printed programme for an inspection of warships and submarines in Portsmouth Harbour [Hampshire].[Sent with CHAR 2/32/11; duplicate at CHAR 2/32/8].

Dates: 29 Apr 1907
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Jan 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/33/4
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Colonial Office) on: impending changes in the Cabinet; British Indian subjects in Africa; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's health; the unsatisfactory progress Richard Haldane's [later Lord Haldane] scheme of army reform; the army and naval estimates; the illness of the Attorney-General [Sir John Walton]; the petitioning by the government of New South Wales [Australia] to keep Admiral Sir Harry Rawson as Governor; the ending of the...
Dates: 11 Jan 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/21/24
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Cutting from the Westminster Gazette: policy on the Navy and Territorial Army and Tariff Reform.

Dates: 29 Jan 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Feb 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/22/44
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Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to [G I Holmes] giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. Copy in WSC's hand Other copies at CHAR 2/22/47 and CHAR 2/22/53.

Dates: 07 Feb 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/22/47
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Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to G I Holmes (Tower Chambers, London Wall, [London]) giving his views on reduction of spending on the Army and Navy and on the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. Typescript copy annotated by WSC and Annette Anning Other copies at CHAR 2/22/44 and CHAR 2/22/53.

Dates: 08 Feb 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open