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Official: Munitions., Apr 1918 - May 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/162A-B

Scope and Contents

WSC's Registered Correspondence as Minister of Munitions, Nos 301-400 Correspondents include: Major-General Noel Birch; Sir Abe Bailey; Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig; Lord Derby, War Office; Sir Frederick Black, British War Mission to the United States; Lord Rhondda. Ministry of Food; Lord Stamfordham, PS to King George V (2); Lord Robert Cecil (later Lord Cecil of Chelwood), Foreign Office; Lord Northcliffe (2); Cecil Harmsworth; Colonel Albert Stern; Sir William Weir; Vice Admiral Charles Napier, asking for employment with Ministry of Munitions; Edmund Cook Wheater on low temperature carbonisation of coal; Christopher Addison, Minister of Reconstruction; John Hills MP, asking to be relieved of work in the Ministry of Munitions; Herbert Asquith (later Lord Oxford and Asquith), thanks fo rhelping his son Arthur ("Oc"); Austen Chamberlain (2) on application for calcium carbide for his house at East Grinstead; Leo Amery, on the munitions programme for 1919 and on T E Lawrence's work in the Middle East.

Dates

  • Creation: Apr 1918 - May 1918

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

2 file(s) (2 bound files (263 folios))

Language of Materials

English