Royal Navy
Found in 1960 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 1947
Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia, 1943-1946, [1st Lord] Mountbatten of Burma [then Viceroy of India], dated 30 July 1947, with sections on strategy and operations, civil affairs in Burma [later Myanmar], post-Japanese surrender tasks, conclusions, and appendices, annexures, and a map tucked into the back flap. [flagged "C"] Manuscript dedication from Mountbatten to WSC on back of front cover.
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1944
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1945
Telegram from Prime Minister of Australia [Joseph Chifley] to WSC marked "Top Secret" emphasising the limits to which the Australian Government can accept Royal Navy works projects, in light of its commitment to an extensive housing programme.
(Untitled), 07 Feb 1945
Telegram from [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Yalta, Soviet Union] to Private Office marked "Advance Copy", "From: Argonaut", and "Jason No. 199" passing on a message from WSC to First Lord [of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] on news-handling staff and "Naval information collected at the Front".
(Untitled), 23 May 1945
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.
(Untitled), 16 Jun 1945
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.
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1945
Telegram from Acting Prime Minister of Australia [?Francis Forde] to WSC marked "Top Secret" giving a detailed explanation of why Australia is unable to accept the proposed additional commitment for Royal Navy works projects.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1921]
Note from Edward Marsh to WSC referring to the desire of the Navy League of the United States to compile a list of Americans who served in the Royal Navy or Royal Naval Division during the way [see CHAR 2/118/28-29 and CHAR 2/118/30] and suggesting that WSC reply that the Admiralty and the War Office do not have enough staff time to undertake the necessary research.
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1921
Letter from L S M Robinson, secretary of the Navy League of the United States (Box 2133, Middle City Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) asking for his help in finding the names of those Americans who served in the Royal Navy during the war so that they can be properly honoured. Encloses related leaflet [see CHAR 2/118/30].
(Untitled), [Dec] [1921]
Leaflet on the effort of the Navy League of the United States to find the names and service records of all those Americans who served in the Allied forces before the United States entered the war. Sent with CHAR 2/118/28-29.
(Untitled), 12 Dec 1921
Telegram from [David Lloyd George] to Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] stating that Lord Beatty [earlier Sir David Beatty] has stated that there is no truth in the newspaper rumours that British naval experts were "helping the Americans out." Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1923
Letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Miles (Earl Soham, Framlingham, Suffolk) to WSC giving his views on the administrative structures of the Admiralty and the War Office arising from his experience as a member of the Weir Committee, remembering the events described in ["The World Crisis"] from his time at the War Office between 1904 and 1912, and approving the appointment of Sir John Chancellor [as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia].
(Untitled), 15 Nov 1923
Page from the Daily Telegraph: article by Archibald Hurd on the official history of the Battle of Jutland by Sir Julian Corbett.
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1915
Page from the Times including marked article describing the naval attack in the Dardanelles as "a legitimate war gamble". [Retained in connection with the proceedings against Lord Alfred Douglas arising from his claim that WSC misreported the Battle of Jutland to allow Jewish interests led by Sir Ernest Cassel to profit on the stock market].
(Untitled), 29 Oct 1923
Letter from WSC (2 Sussex Square) to Leopold Amery on how the stipulations of the current contract between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Government with regard to supplies to the Admiralty could be met following the merger of Burmah/Anglo-Persian with Royal Dutch/Shell. Signed typescript. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/128/36-42.
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1923
Letter from Leopold Amery (Admiralty) to WSC enclosing a list of questions [see CHAR 2/129/64-67] on WSC's proposals on oil supplies to the Admiralty following the merger of the Burmah/Anglo-Persian and the Royal Dutch/Shell oil companies.
(Untitled), [Nov] [1923]
Letter from [WSC] to [Leopold Amery] arguing that the merger of the Burmah/Anglo-Persian and the Royal Dutch/Shell oil companies will give greater security to the Admiralty's oil supplies because it will put a much wider range of sources at its disposal. Unsigned typescript. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/128/47-49.
(Untitled), 04 Nov 1923
Letter from WSC (Sutton Place, by Guildford, Surrey) to Sir Robert Waley-Cohen on the supply of oil to the Admiralty following the merger of the Burmah/Anglo-Persian and the Royal Dutch/Shell oil companies. Draft in WSC's hand.
(Untitled), 08 Oct 1923
Questions from the Admiralty on WSC's scheme for the merger of the Burmah/Anglo-Persian and the Royal Dutch/Shell oil companies. Sent with CHAR 2/128/43.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1924
Letter from A Grosvenor Deeny (Madresfield, 95 Wentworth Road, Harborne, Birmingham) to WSC urging him to form a new constitutionalist and anti-Socialist party and to remember the stress by Australian Prime Minister Stanley Bruce [later Lord Bruce] on the importance of trade within the Empire and the construction of a naval base in Singapore.
(Untitled), 18 Mar 1924
"Parliamentary debates", including annotated speech by Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] on the Navy Estimates.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1925
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1925
Letter from Sir Roger Keyes [later Lord Keyes] (Admiralty House, Malta) to WSC thanking him for writing, reporting on his inspection of aircraft carriers and his cruise in the Aegean, referring to Cecil Aspinall's [later Cecil Aspinall-Oglander] history of the [Dardanelles] campaign and to his (Keyes') polo ponies.
(Untitled), 31 Dec 1925
Letter from [WSC] to J L Garvin (Gregories, Beaconsfield, [Buckinghamshire]) pointing to Britain's naval achievements in the two years after December 1914 as evidence that the Admiralty staff machinery was not so defective as Garvin's memorandum suggested. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1927]
"The last of the battle cruisers": humorous poem on naval policy featuring Vice-Admiral Cyril Fuller and WSC. Sent with CHAR 2/151/102.