Armed forces
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(Untitled), 19 Jan 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/7
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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on available aircraft and machine production. [Copy].
Dates:
19 Jan 1940
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Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Admiralty
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Official: Admiralty: copies of minutes [?mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC, with a summary of the contents at the start of the file. Also includes a small amount of later correspondence [from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 25 Jan 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/14
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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the need for flares as high-speed targets for Blenheims [bombers].
Dates:
25 Jan 1940
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Admiralty
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Official: Admiralty: copies of minutes [?mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC, with a summary of the contents at the start of the file. Also includes a small amount of later correspondence [from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/15
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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the dangers of gliding bombs to the Fleet.
Dates:
26 Jan 1940
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Admiralty
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Official: Admiralty: copies of minutes [?mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC, with a summary of the contents at the start of the file. Also includes a small amount of later correspondence [from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/23-24
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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on anti-aircraft ammunition requirements.
Dates:
21 Feb 1940
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Admiralty
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Official: Admiralty: copies of minutes [?mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC, with a summary of the contents at the start of the file. Also includes a small amount of later correspondence [from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 04 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/186-187
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Letter from WSC to Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, enclosing a reply from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken], agreeing with Menzies's proposal that "aircraft capacity should be built up in every Dominion".
Dates:
04 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 08 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/192-193
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Letter from WSC to the United States Ambassador to Britain [John Winant] thanking him for his letter on diplomatic arrangements surrounding the leasing of air bases on British territory in Newfoundland [later part of Canada], Bermuda and Trinidad to the United States.
Dates:
08 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1941 - 28 Feb 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/2
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, February 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Vice Chief of Imperial General Staff [?General Sir Robert Haining];...
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01 Feb 1941 - 28 Feb 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1941 - 31 Mar 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/3
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet], Sir Horace Wilson [Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury and official Head of HM Civil Service], and Sir Alexander Cadogan...
Dates:
01 Mar 1941 - 31 Mar 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941 - 30 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/4
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] and Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistants]; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges...
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01 Apr 1941 - 30 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 01 May 1941 - 31 May 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/5
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Sir Horace Wilson [Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury and official Head of HM Civil Service]; Eric Seal [WSC's Principal Private Secretary]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Sir Alexander...
Dates:
01 May 1941 - 31 May 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Jun 1941 - 30 Jun 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/6
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, June 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Desmond Morton and F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistants]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the defence of...
Dates:
01 Jun 1941 - 30 Jun 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1941 - 30 Jul 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/7
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] and Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistants]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; senior civil servants including Sir Edward Bridges...
Dates:
01 Jul 1941 - 30 Jul 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1941 - 30 Sep 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/9
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information and in one case later manuscript annotations by WSC) to: Desmond Morton and 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistants]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants including Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] and Sir...
Dates:
01 Sep 1941 - 30 Sep 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/10
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Colonels Leslie Hollis and Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's...
Dates:
01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1941 - 30 Nov 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/11
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] and Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistants]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the...
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01 Nov 1941 - 30 Nov 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/37/2
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Telegram from WSC to Foreign Secretary [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (Athens [Greece]) asking for Greek views on the deployment of British Air forces from Greek aerodromes.
Dates:
01 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 31 Mar 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/37/4
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Telegram from WSC to Foreign Secretary [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (Athens [Greece]) with numbers of aeroplanes released to aid Greece.
Dates:
31 Mar 1941
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(Untitled), 02 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/37/13
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Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (Athens [Greece]) to WSC on Greece's agreement to allow the RAF to use Greek aerodromes in the event of a German attack on Yugoslavia, but stating that Turkey is unable to give the same assurance.
Dates:
02 Apr 1941
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(Untitled), 15 May 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/38/127-128
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] on impending air attack on "Colorado" [codename for Crete][T179]; with reply from Wavell on operation "Scorcher" [codename for British occupation and defence of Crete] [T180].
Dates:
15 May 1941
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(Untitled), 16 May 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/38/144
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Telegram from WSC to General William Dobbie [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta] proposing Stephenson to lead coastal air fighting against German shipping.
Dates:
16 May 1941
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(Untitled), 10 Nov 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/2/26-28
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Grand Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]) to WSC, on the mobilization of the Fleet, and on the protection of commerce and food supply, recommending that he talk to Captain Francis Haworth-Booth, Naval Representative for Australia, who had engineered the most recent mobilization, stating that he was one of Fisher's "favourites": he had picked him "right down at the bottom ... he has had half his stomach cut out, but his brain is like a hive...
Dates:
10 Nov 1911
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(Untitled), [1914]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6B/261
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Note by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on seniority of officers of the Naval Air Service. [Hand-written].
Dates:
[1914]
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(Untitled), 31 May [1914]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6B/265
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Director of the Air Division, Admiralty [Captain Murray Sueter] and the 4th Sea Lord [Captain Cecil Lambert], returning the proof of the new Air Service Regulations, objecting to the new title, "Royal Naval Air Service", as the term "Flying Wing" was accurate, more expressive and simpler; WSC also states that he did not think it necessary to include Captain Godfrey Paine, Commandant of the Central Flying School, in the list of naval air...
Dates:
31 May [1914]
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(Untitled), 28 Sep 1940 - 29 Sep 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/3/25-32
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Letter from Group Captain Charles Anderson to WSC enclosing a detailed paper on the training of RAF pilots, and a suggested system to reduce costs.
Dates:
28 Sep 1940 - 29 Sep 1940
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(Untitled), 20 Oct 1940 - 21 Oct 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/3/37
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Summary of night-time operations for RAF Station at Waddington [Yorkshire], naming officers involved. [Typescript].
Dates:
20 Oct 1940 - 21 Oct 1940
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