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Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 04 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/23-24
Scope and Contents

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]; resuming offensive.

Dates: 04 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/28
Scope and Contents

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]; Italian prisoners, and tanks.

Dates: 06 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1941 - 07 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/30-32
Scope and Contents

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]; enemy manoeuvres; troop deployment.

Dates: 06 Dec 1941 - 07 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 07 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/38
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on battle in Libyan desert; recovery of abandoned German tanks.

Dates: 07 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/46
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 08 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 09 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/63-64
Scope and Contents

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".

Dates: 09 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/47/6
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 13 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 15 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/47/24
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 15 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 17 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/47/47-49
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 17 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 20 Oct 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/150-163
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to [Franklin Roosevelt] President of the United States, detailing secret military plans, reorganisation of command, and projected course of the war: Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to attack Cyrenaica [Libya], then advance on Tripoli; invasion of Norway has been planned as a cover; reports of German preparation for invasion of Britain over North Sea; seeks introduction of American troops to Northern Ireland; command. structure between the...
Dates: 20 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Correspondence (copies).
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(Untitled), 31 Oct 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/182-186
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 31 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Correspondence (copies).
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(Untitled), 24 Nov 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54C/236-238
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 24 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Correspondence (copies).
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/44/7
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander- in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on shortages of artillery troops.

Dates: 16 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal Telegrams (copies).
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(Untitled), 09 Jul 1941 - 10 Jul 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/248-250
Scope and Contents Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. the "New Aircraft Programme" and a possible shortage in heavy bombers; 2. attaching a draft of a note to the Minister of Aircraft Production [John Moore-Brabazon, later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara] on the lack of increase in aircraft output; 3. the size of the Army, referring to "W.P. (G) (41) 63"; 4. giving the Russians specifications for the sticky bomb; 5. increased imports...
Dates: 09 Jul 1941 - 10 Jul 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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"War cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.40) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation", 30 May- 6 Jun 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/5/1-14
Scope and Contents Detailed summary of the war situation including: the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk including the effect of weather conditions, numbers evacuated, naval losses and attacks by German bombers; attacks by U-boats on seaborne trade; anti-submarine operations; German trade; overview of the military and air situation covering Norway, Italy, the North Sea and coastal operations, the bombing of Great Britain, attacks on Germany by Bomber Command, French and German air...
Dates: 30 May- 6 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: War Cabinet / Official: War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: weekly resumes.
 Unknown

"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
Dates: 27 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: War Cabinet / Official: War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: weekly resumes.

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