Page from the Daily Mail including editorial asserting that ministers should concentrate on recruiting more men for the forces and not meddle with the operational conduct of the war. Cites the Antwerp and Dardanelles campaigns as examples of the ill effects of such meddling.

Memorandum by WSC for the Committee of Imperial Defence on variants of the offensive (written 3 December 1915), with comments by Major-General 10th Lord Cavan.

Proposals for raising territorial units in India by E G Barrow, Military Secretary at the India Office. Annotated: "circulated by the Secretary of State for India".

Supplementary vote of credit of 120 million pounds for the year 1915-16 for navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war.

Supplementary vote of credit of 300 million pounds for the year 1916-17 for navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war.

Report on army recruiting by 17th Lord Derby, Director-General of Recruiting.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on: the falsehood of the charge by John Dillon that the Mail was responsible for the fall of the Government, which really resulted from the revelation that the army was getting insufficient supplies of high explosives; the need for compulsory national service; the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the unfairness of current army recruiting policy and the lack of compulsory national service, and the warning by Sir William Nicoll about the danger facing the country.

Navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war . . . Supplementary vote of credit. Printed. Two copies.

Return to a House of Commons order for copies of Treasury minutes relating to War Department expenditure and Admiralty and War Department contracts for munitions of war.

Figures, with explanatory notes, on the relationship between national income and defence spending from 1812 to 1910, compiled for Reginald McKenna [First Lord of the Admiralty.] Annotated typescript.

Letter from [WSC] (Admiralty) to John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] giving his views on the training and equipping of the yeomanry. Typescript copy.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (Ewelme Down, Wallingford, [Berkshire]) to WSC on their forthcoming discussion of war plans. Hopes WSC will speak on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill.

Letter from [WSC] to John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] suggesting changes to the new yeomanry drilling manual. Typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Nicholson [earlier Sir William Nicholson] (The Mythe, Simla, [India]) to WSC thanking him for his congratulations [on his ennoblement] and describing his work as chairman of the Commission on Indian Army Expenditure. Thinks WSC will need to revise the existing naval arrangements in the Mediterranean.

Letter from Lord Roberts on how well the Turks fight when well led and on the need for reform of the Territorial Army. Annotated by WSC with an excerpt from his reply.

Letter from David Lloyd George (11 Downing Street) to WSC complaining about the attitude of Lord Kitchener and the War Office to the raising of a Welsh-speaking army corps.

"Notes on a note" by "C a C R" [Charles A'Court Repington]. Comments on WSC's "a note on army economics" drawn up in response to memoranda by Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] on army re-organisation. Initialed typescript. Another copy at CHAR 2/28/18-25.

Strength of local land forces of British Dominions beyond the seas (exclusive of India) for the year ended 31st December 1905. Prepared by the General Staff, War Office. Printed. 22p.

Letter from General Sir Bindon Blood (94 Piccadilly, [London]) to WSC discussing the appointment of [? Sir Charles] Egerton rather than himself to a post. Thinks WSC could do a good job at the War Office and dismisses as absurd the idea that Britain could invade a contintental country with an army based on voluntary enlistment.

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to Richard Haldane discussing Haldane's proposals for army reform. Typescript copy.

Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC thanking him for his comments on Haldane's proposals for army reform.