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War Office August-September 1914: recruiting campaign, 1914-08 - 1916-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/9

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers on the progress of LSA's recruitment campaign for the Army and Territorial Army, with correspondents including: Basil Peto; M R Ludlow, Special Recruiting Officer, Birmingham [Warwickshire] (4); Sir Hugh Bell; William Joynson-Hicks, Chairman of the Automobile Association and Motor Union [earlier William Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford] on providing cars for staff officers (2); Jesse Collings, President of the Rural League on using the League's village agents for recruitment; Herbert Creedy [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War]; Bertram Cubitt [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office].

Also includes: recruitment badge; letters from LSA to Major-General Edward Altham, in charge of Administration Southern Command, to Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson; reports on a tours of Southern Command by LSA and Major-General Henry Jeffreys; memorandum by LSA on replenishing the Territorial Force and Special Reserve; model recruitment letters and instructions for travelling recruitment offices; note by LSA and Jeffreys on recruits being rejected because of bad teeth; recommendations from the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee; War Office recruiting memorandum; recruitment pamphlets.

Dates

  • Creation: 1914-08 - 1916-01

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

2 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 113

Finding aid date

2003-06-09 15:07:52.280000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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