Army
Found in 753 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 08 Dec 1941
Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert, Crusader [codename for major British operation in North Africa]; Allies advancing, New Zealand casualty figures.
(Untitled), 09 Dec 1941
Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert, Crusader [codename for major British operation in North Africa]; "Enemy is apparently in full retreat towards the west".
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1941
Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck Commander- in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert, Crusader [codename for major British operation in North Africa].
(Untitled), 15 Dec 1941
Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; evidence that enemy has been surprised by attack.
(Untitled), 17 Dec 1941
Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; enemy in retreat and being pursued by Air Force.
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 27 Oct 1942
Letter from WSC to Sir James Grigg [Secretary of State for War] insisting that he hold more frequent meetings of the Army Council, rather than relying on the Executive Council.
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1942
Letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with major points of joint strategy: expansion of shipping convoys against U-boat attack; increase of food imports in 1943; more American troops to Britain; increasing bombing, night bombing and using aircraft against U-boats.
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1942
Letter from WSC to Sir James Grigg [Secretary of State for War] thanking him for following WSC's wishes over the constitutional organisation of the Army Council.
(Untitled), 24 Nov 1942
Letter from WSC to Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, challenging the decision by the United States to withdraw Lend-Lease funding for operations Bolero [codename for preparations for the invasion of Normandy, France] and Roundup [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Europe] in favour of Torch [codename for Allied invasion of North West Africa].
(Untitled), 22 May 1942 - 08 Jul 1942
(Untitled), [Aug 1942]
Memorandum [submitted by Sir Edward Bridges, Secretary to the Cabinet] examining proposition by the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Stafford Cripps] for co-operation between the Services through an overall commander. [See CHAR 20/56B/129-134 for Cripps's proposition].
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1942 - 21 Sep 1942
(Untitled), 16 Feb 1942 - 25 Feb 1942
(Untitled), 23 Feb 1942 - 03 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 05 Mar 1942 - 28 Sep 1942
(Untitled), 30 Jul 1942 - 25 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
(Untitled), 01 Jan 1942
Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including infantry and tanks in the Western desert against Germans and Italians, prisoner-of-war figures and South African divisions.
(Untitled), 11 Jan 1942
Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, asking how the retreat and escape of General Erwin Rommel's Italian troops affects "Acrobat" and also "Gymnast" and "Super-Gymnast" [codenames for an operation against Tripoli, Libya, the plans for the British occupation of North West Africa and a combined landing by British and United States forces].
(Untitled), 31 Dec 1941
Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including a tank encounter to the south of Agedabia [Ajdabiyah, Libya], the accuracy of RAF bombing and the movement of enemy ships from Ras el Aali.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1942
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1942
Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] with figures for army and air reinforcement of Malaya [later Malaysia].
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