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Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1883-1950 (1st Earl Wavell and Field Marshal)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1883 - 1950

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell, 1953 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PJGG 14/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection includes personal documents and honours (PJGG 1); general correspondence (PJGG 2 and 12); material relating to India including finance papers (PJGG 3), political papers (federation and defence) (PJGG 4), miscellaneous reports (PJGG 5), War Office papers about India (PJGG 8); Lady Grigg's correspondence (PJGG 6 and 7); War Office correspondence (PJGG 9); Committee papers (PJGG 10); literary material (PJGG 13-15).Perhaps the most interesting papers are those...
Dates: 1953 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Printed books: copy of “Speeches by Earl Wavell, 1943-47”, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/1/131
Scope and Contents

Speeches and broadcasts made while 1st Lord Wavell was Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Wavell's choice, 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B60/6
Scope and Contents

Contract; correspondence with the BBC , with other participants in the reading including Valentine Dyall and Ralph Richardson, and with listeners including Pamela Zander; letter from Wavell The programme was broadcast on 6 Apr. 1944.

Dates: 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 1
 
Subject
India (nation) 1