Army
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and praising his leadership and speeches. [please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940]., Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/392A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams (4) including (2) on his attending a meeting addressed by WSC; [John] Sandeman Allen on [David Lloyd George]; [1st] Lord Alness [earlier Robert Munro]; Julian Amery [Attache HM Legation, Belgrade] on articles by WSC for publication in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] (4); Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] sending on a 1903 letter from WSC to him on...
Dates:
Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 18 Feb 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/70/72
Scope and Contents
Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] to WSC regarding military command in Burma [later Myanmar]: feels disturbed at the "lack of real fighting spirit" shown by troops in Malaya [later Malaysia] and Burma, and lists some causes; comments on Lieutenant-General Thomas Hutton [General Officer Commanding, Burma] and proposal to replace him with General Harold Alexander; refers to own rapid recovery.
Dates:
18 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Filtered By
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Asia-Pacific War, 1941-1945 1
- Broadcasting 1
- Colonialism 1
- Family 1
- France 1
- Households 1
- India (nation) 1
- Italy (nation) 1
- Literature 1
- Military equipment 1
- Occupational diseases 1
- South Africa (nation) 1
- Speeches 1
- United Kingdom (nation) 1
- United States (nation) 1
- War devastated countries 1 + ∧ less
∨ more