Army
Found in 755 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1922
Letter from Russel Steele (Eastbourne House, Devizes, [Wiltshire]) to [WSC] urging the reintroduction of full dress uniform in the army.
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1922
Letter from [WSC] (in the train) to Edwin Montagu on: the disagreement between Lord Curzon and the Aga Khan over the latter's communication to the Turkish government of the Cabinet proposals for the revision of the [Treaty of Sevres]; the financial disputes between the India Office and the War Office; WSC's committee on the Geddes Report.
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1922
Letter from [WSC] to Lord Riddell [earlier Sir George Riddell] thanking him for a Christmas box of cigars and praising his handling of the American press at the Washington Conference on disarmament.
(Untitled), 04 Apr 1922
Letter from Lieutenant-General Michael Rimington (Cavendish Lodge, Doveridge, Derbyshire) to WSC drawing his attention to the apparent anomaly of the Inniskilling Dragoons being reduced to one squadron.
(Untitled), 04 Apr 1922
Letter from Kenneth Lyon, private secretary to the Secretary of State for War, to Lieutenant-General Michael Rimington on the careful consideration given by the Army Council to the amalgamation of cavalry regiments. Copy sent with CHAR 2/122/33.
(Untitled), 12 Apr 1922
Letter from Kenneth Lyon [private secretary to the Secretary of State for War] (War Office) to Edward Marsh returning CHAR 2/122/38 and commenting on the possibility of the War Office releasing Deptford cattle market [London].
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1922
Letter from A E Southernwood (142 Waller Road, New Cross, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/122/39 and CHAR 2/122/40 and hoping that WSC will get the War Office to keep its promise to release Deptford cattle market [London].
(Untitled), 22 Feb 1928
Extract from the "Times": statement by 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] at Oxford rejecting the charge that WSC as Chancellor of the Exchequer was advocating increased spending on the Army and Navy. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 23 Jul 1911
Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres] (22 North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, [London]) to WSC enclosing military maps and a pamphlet on the Normandy peninsula [France] to illustrate his recent remarks on the strength of an Anglo- French military alliance.
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1911
Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], Inspector General of the Forces (Horse Guards, Whitehall, [London]), to WSC on a memorandum WSC has sent referring to the need for six army divisions to be sent from India.
(Untitled), 10 Aug [1911]
(Untitled), 30 Oct 1910
Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (San Antonio Palace, Malta) to [Erskine] Childers commenting on Childers' book on the training and arming of the Cavalry [War and the Arme Blanche] and justifying his opinions by descriptions of actions in Afghanistan, 1879, the Boer War, 1900, and the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria [part of China]. Signed and annotated typescript.
(Untitled), 10 Mar 1911-11 Mar 1911
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.
(Untitled), 16 Apr 1912
Letter from [WSC] (Admiralty) to John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] giving his views on the training and equipping of the yeomanry. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 21 Apr 1912
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.
(Untitled), 03 May 1912
Letter from [WSC] to John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] suggesting changes to the new yeomanry drilling manual. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1912
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.
(Untitled), 18 Sep 1911
(Untitled), 28 Sep 1911
Letter from Henry Massingham (the Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London) to WSC explaining that he has not been fully superintending the Nation due to illness and giving his views on the army's role in the policing of the railway strike.
(Untitled), 26 May 1915
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1913
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.
(Untitled), 21 Jul 1915
(Untitled), [Jul] [1915]
Memorandum for the Cabinet by Frederick Guest advocating compulsory military service and reorganisation of the War Office. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/67/31-32.
(Untitled), 04 Aug 1915
Letter from Frederick Guest (Head Quarters, British Army) to WSC proposing to circulate to all MPs a memorandum advocating compulsory military service and to produce a pamphlet for the working classes detailing the positive aspects of the measure.
(Untitled), 30 Nov 1915
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