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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/39A-B

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and papers by various individuals including: Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on manpower; Colonel Richard Steel and Major-General Percy Radcliffe on allied and enemy manpower and rifle strengths; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the murder of Captain Cromie at Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg, Russia]; the award of the 1914 star and the Gallipoli star, horse-racing, the French ministry of national reconstitution, and post-war reconstruction; Sir Alfred Mond [First Commissioner of Works] on the ministry of supply; Sir Albert Stanley [later 1st Lord Ashfield] President of the Board of Trade, on the placement of orders.Also includes War Cabinet minutes including discussion of Germany's reply to President [Woodrow] Wilson [President of the United States], the armistice and demobilisation and notes [?by WSC] on the plans of General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of Imperial General Staff, for the offensive in 1919 [see CHAR 27/38].

Dates

  • Creation: 01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

2 file(s) (2 files (76 loose folios))

Language of Materials

English

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Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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