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(Untitled), 30 Oct 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/146

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on senior naval appointments: recommending that the 4th Sea Lord, Captain William Pakenham, be appointed to a Cruiser Squadron, and Commodore Cecil Lambert appointed in his place; also proposing that Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe [Commander, China Station] be appointed Commander-in- Chief, Mediterranean from July 1914, with Sir [Archibald] Berkeley Milne [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean] being appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. [Hand-written, signed by WSC, with note by Maurice Bonham- Carter, Private Secretary to Asquith, giving Asquith's approval].

Dates

  • Creation: 30 Oct 1913

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Crown copyright

Extent

1 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Bibliography

Published: Winston S Churchill : Companion Volume II, Part 3, pp.1793-94

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