Army
Found in 753 Collections and/or Records:
Speeches: House of Commons: speech notes (some by WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty) and other material., 19 May 1939 - 06 Dec 1939
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and source material., 07 Feb 1920 - 23 Feb 1920
Speeches: House of Commons: Typescripts Typescript copy of WSC's Maiden Speech, 18 Feb 1901, mainly on the South African War. [Typed on "G.R." headed notepaper, and therefore typed after 1910] Published Complete Speeches I, pp.65-70., 18 Feb 1901 - 13 May 1901
Typescript copy of WSC's speech on Mr Brodrick's scheme for Army Reform, 13 May 1901. [Typed on "G.R." headed notepaper, and therefore typed after 1910] Published Complete Speeches I, pp.76-86.
Speeches: Lists of speeches and speech notes., 1945 - 1954
Speeches: Non House of Commons., Aug 1902 - Oct 1902
Press cutting reporting speech by Ernest Beckett MP [later Lord Grimthorpe] at Sleights, Whitby, Yorkshire on Army Reform [undated].Typescript copy of speech by WSC at Plymouth on home defence, 18 Aug Unpublished.Manuscript draft of speech by WSC in Dublin on Imperial Federation [undated] Unpublished.Press cuttings and source material for speech by WSC on Tariff Reform at the Colosseum, Oldham, 23 Oct Unpublished.
Speeches: Non House of Commons., 1910
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Typescript, prints and speech notes., 02 Jan 1919 - 09 Nov 1919
Speeches: speech notes., 07 Nov 1945 - 28 Nov 1945
Speeches: Speech notes., 15 Aug 1945 - 13 Dec 1945
Speeches: speech notes., 12 Nov 1946 - 12 Dec 1946
Speeches: speech notes., 14 Jun 1945 - 31 Mar 1947
Speeches: speech notes., 31 Mar 1947 - 17 May 1947
Speeches: speech notes., 10 Sept 1947 - 28 Oct 1947
Speeches: speech notes., 26 Jan 1949 - 26 Feb 1949
Speeches: speech notes., 04 Feb 1950 - 09 Feb 1950
Speeches: speech notes and other material., 19 May 1939 - 28 Jun 1939
"The artillery at Passchendaele: (From Artillery Accounts)", [1926]
(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), 01 Apr 1914
Letter from Sir Douglas French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres (War Office) expressing regret that he will no longer be working with WSC "in that happy union of the Army and Navy which you have done so much to bring about.".
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1914
Message [for a recruiting rally in Acton] by WSC calling for an army of at least a million men to be sent to Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres].
(Untitled), 28 Oct 1914
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.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1924
Letter from Sir Philip Chetwode [later Lord Chetwode] (Government House, Farnborough, Hampshire) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment [as Chancellor of the Exchequer], expressing the Army's relief at the return of the new government and asking him not to be "too ferocious with the poor Army", which is beginning to get back to 1914 standards.
(Untitled), 19 Oct 1919
Letter from Sir David Beatty [later Lord Beatty] (Aberdour House, Aberdour, Fife, [Scotland]) to WSC thanking him for his good wishes and expressing the hope that the [Army and Navy] will co-operate more closely together than they have done before.
(Untitled), 20 Dec 1905
Letter from Lord Brooke ("Guy") (office of the Inspector- General of Cavalry in India, Meerut) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment [as Under-Secretary of State for Colonies] and describing his (Brooke's) work with General Douglas Haig [later Lord Haig] in India.
(Untitled), 18 Nov 1907
Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (Head Quarters, Southern Command, Tidworth House, Andover, [Hampshire]) to WSC on: WSC's report on the French army manoeuvres; Lloyd George's successful intervention in the railway dispute; the reform of the Territorial Army and the South African constitution as the main achievements of the present government. Signed typescript.
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