Letter from Private H Waterlow (Officers' Mess, Buller Barracks, Aldershot, [Hampshire]) to WSC complaining of the excessive number of men performing domestic duties in the mess who could be on active service.

Page from the Daily Mail including editorial asserting that ministers should concentrate on recruiting more men for the forces and not meddle with the operational conduct of the war. Cites the Antwerp and Dardanelles campaigns as examples of the ill effects of such meddling.

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.

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.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on: the falsehood of the charge by John Dillon that the Mail was responsible for the fall of the Government, which really resulted from the revelation that the army was getting insufficient supplies of high explosives; the need for compulsory national service; the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the unfairness of current army recruiting policy and the lack of compulsory national service, and the warning by Sir William Nicoll about the danger facing the country.

Memorandum by WSC for the Committee of Imperial Defence on variants of the offensive (written 3 December 1915), with comments by Major-General 10th Lord Cavan.

Proposals for raising territorial units in India by E G Barrow, Military Secretary at the India Office. Annotated: "circulated by the Secretary of State for India".

Supplementary vote of credit of 120 million pounds for the year 1915-16 for navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war.

Supplementary vote of credit of 300 million pounds for the year 1916-17 for navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war.

Report on army recruiting by 17th Lord Derby, Director-General of Recruiting.

Note by the Admiralty Transport Department on the move of the 29th Division and the 2nd Mounted Division from Avonmouth to the Mediterranean. Printed. Other copies at CHAR 2/81/15 and CHAR 2/88/22.

Letter from WSC to Lord Kitchener on the preparation of transports to the Dardanelles for the 29th Division and the need for the French Division to come to Lemnos in view of the absence of British regulars. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/17.

Letter from WSC to Lord Kitchener suggesting that 20 March be fixed on as the date for the landing of troops after the initial naval operations at the Dardanelles and approving the appointment of General Sir Ian Hamilton to the command of the military operations. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/18.

Letter from F.E. Lawson-[ ] to WSC, on reform of the Army Medical Department.

Cutting from the Morning Post, report on speech by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord St Aldwyn to his constituents in Clifton, on the Education Bill, resistance to the payment of Rates, the growth of national expenditure and the reform of the Army and Navy.

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, asking for information on the Militia and the Volunteers.

Letter from Arnold White to WSC, congratulations on speech on the Army, opposing the Broderick reforms on the grounds of expense.

Letter from Major Ernest Gordon to WSC, on the need for co-operation between critics of the Army.

Accounts showing income and expenditure of a 10 Company Territorial Battalion, [The Northumberland Fusiliers] by H. Worsley Gough.