Armed forces
Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 26 Sep 1935
Letter from WSC to Lord Winterton (Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold), stating that he had been invited to serve on the Air Defence Research Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, but that he remained free to criticise air policy and air strength. Agreeing that the condition of the Air Ministry was unsatisfactory, and Britain was falling further and further behind Germany. Suggesting a meeting to discuss a deputation to the Prime Minister.
(Untitled), 30 Sep 1935
Letter from Desmond Morton, (Earlylands, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent) to WSC, on relative air strength of Britain and Germany, stating that the number of military aircraft in the possession of the German Air Ministry and available for home defence in Britain were about the same, but that all of the German aircraft were new.
(Untitled), 18 Oct 1935
Letter from Samuel Haines, Haines & Co., Englewood, New Jersey, USA to WSC, on design of improved searchlights to assist air defence.
(Untitled), 28 Nov 1935
Letter from Lord Rothermere, Stratton House, Piccadilly, London to WSC, on the impossibility of anti-aircraft defence of warships, concluding that warships could carry no more that one hour's ammunition, and that "warships are doomed except for mid-ocean purposes", enclosing cutting from the "Daily Telegraph" on high altitude bombing.
(Untitled), 29 Nov 1935
Pamphlet "Volkerbund" the Journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions No.144 on French Military Aviation.
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1935
Letter from Major-General Harry Pritchard, Ospringe, Faversham, Kent, to WSC, on the question of aerial defence.
(Untitled), 04 Dec 1935
Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.
(Untitled), 09 Dec 1935
Notes by WSC on British and German air strength [2 carbon copies].
(Untitled), 16 Dec 1935
Letter from Vice-Admiral Reginald Henderson, Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.
(Untitled), 02 Nov 1934
Letter from Lilian Buck, PS to Randolph Churchill, May Fair Hotel, Berkeley St., London W1, to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, enclosing copy of letter RSC had received from Terence Hanbury, Ashford, Middlesex, on Britain's inadequate strength in the air and the need for deep underground shelters.
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1943
Letter from WSC to King George VI accepting his invitation to dinner that evening to discuss with the Field Marshal the strategic scene and stating that there is no possibility of reversing the agreement as the United States Staff and Marshal Stalin would oppose this and highlighting that it is only in Britain that the Metropolitan Fighter Air Force can have full effect Signature in typescript.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1914
Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Commander Charles Samson [Naval Air Service], on attacks on German Zeppelin sheds, asking why 13 days had been wasted without any action in this "vital matter". WSC states that either Samson should control effectively the force entrusted to him, or he would be replaced by another officer. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1914
Telegram from Commander Charles Samson [Naval Air Service], (Dunkirk), to Admiralty, with a report on air operations in France and Belgium, regretting that the poor weather and lack of suitable machines had made it impossible to attack the German Zeppelin sheds. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 01 Oct 1914
Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Major Eugene Gerrard, [Royal Naval Air Service], ordering him to concentrate his efforts on spotting the fall of shot for British naval guns at Antwerp [Belgium], to help knock out enemy siege artillery. Copied to Commander Charles Samson [Royal Naval Air Service]. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 20 Nov 1914
Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], reporting a concentration of heavy German ships in the Weser and the Elbe, and a dispersal of their submarines to hunt in the Shetlands and the English Channel. The Admiralty suggests that the time was right for an aerial attack on the Zeppelin sheds at Cuxhaven [Germany]. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 22 Nov 1914
Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on plans for the seaplane attack on German Zeppelin sheds. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 22 Nov 1914
Telegram from Admiralty to 'Commodore T' [Reginald Tyrwhitt, Commander of Destroyer Flotillas, First Fleet], on providing support for a seaplane attack on German Zeppelin sheds. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 16 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 19 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1942
Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] to WSC: states that WSC will be advised as soon as possible about the [Australian] 9th Division; thanks WSC for assurances of support in the event of invasion; comments on the aircraft position in Australia.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 26 Mar 1942
Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] (India) to WSC regarding the defence of North Eastern India: states that the next few weeks will be critical for morale; warns that the result may be disastrous if Calcutta is bombed without any effective defence; comments on the desperate need for up-to-date fighters and suggests alternative means of obtaining these from Britain or the Middle East or Ceylon [later Sri Lanka].