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(Untitled), 30 Nov 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/4
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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: 30 Nov 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/17-19
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Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC advising all tanks unloaded; on Libyan Desert battle, Crusader [codename for major British operation in North Africa]; morale good.

Dates: 02 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/23-24
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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
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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/28
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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
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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1941 - 07 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/30-32
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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
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(Untitled), 07 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/38
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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
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/46
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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
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(Untitled), 09 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/46/63-64
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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
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/47/6
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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
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(Untitled), 15 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/47/24
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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
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(Untitled), 17 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/47/47-49
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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
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(Untitled), 20 Oct 1942

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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
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(Untitled), 27 Oct 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/173-176
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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.

Dates: 27 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Oct 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/182-186
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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
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/195
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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.

Dates: 03 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54C/236-238
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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
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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/239-248
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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with thoughts on future action relating to Germany, advising against immediate bombing raids, commenting on supplies of artillery and munitions, and offering suggestions for the development of the Navy and Army. [carbon, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Dates: 10 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 18 Sep 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/263-266
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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreeing on production objectives of 2000 aircraft per month and the need for the Army to be planned on a 50 or 55 division scale. [carbon, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Dates: 18 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/303-307
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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on issues such as training of territorial troops by deployment to India; the need for more Air Squadrons and the exaggerated emphasis placed on Air Raid Precautions. [typed copy, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Dates: 01 Oct 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 09 Sep 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2A/7
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Letter from WSC to Brigadier-General [Edward] Spears hoping Spears would be able to act between [6th Lord] Gort [earlier John Vereker, Commander-in-Chief of the British Field Force] and [General Alphonse] Georges [Commander of the French Forces and Operations in the North East], or [General Sir] Edmund Ironside [Chief of Imperial General Staff] and [General Maurice] Gamelin [commanding French Land Forces], if WSC could arrange it.

Dates: 09 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 03 Mar 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/22A/25-26
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [? John Seely, Secretary of State for War, later 1st Lord Mottistone] on the importance to the Admiralty of the Orkney and Shetland Territorials, and his disappointment that the War Office was proposing to disband these Units. [Carbon copy].

Dates: 03 Mar 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Sep 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/27A/31
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Memorandum by Major-General Charles Callwell [Director of Military Operations, War Office] on the difficulties of an attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula [Turkey].

Dates: 03 Sep 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/6/4
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Letter from John Milbanke, Depot, Royal Sussex Regiment, to WSC, on WSC's life at Harrow School, and success in the Army Preliminary Examination, and Milbanke's life in the Royal Sussex Regiment.

Dates: 15 Feb 1891
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jun 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/56
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Letter from Sir James Wolfe Murray (28 Wilton Crescent, [London]) to WSC on the Headquarters staff at the War Office.

Dates: 01 Jun 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Feb 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/25-27
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Letter from Robert Spence Watson, president, and W Evans Darby, secretary, of the Peace Society (47 New Broad Street, London) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] and other members of the Government (including WSC) calling for an end to increased spending on armaments. Criticises the method of assessing the country's naval strength and asserts that there is a general tendency in other countries to reduce spending. Signed typescript.

Dates: 11 Feb 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open

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