Armed forces
Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 01 Jan 1915
Admiralty memorandum - Report on the Present Position as regards Possible Zeppelin Attacks on London by Captain Murray Sueter, head of the Air Department, with covering note by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty [printed, Cabinet Paper].
(Untitled), 30 May 1915
Admiralty Air Department memorandum on the Disposition of Aircraft [printed].
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1915
Telegram from the Rear-Admiral Dover to Admiralty, reporting German air raid on Dunkerque, suggesting that ships with anti-aircraft guns be moved there [typescript copy].
(Untitled), 11 Jan 1915
Telegram from Divisional Transports, Dunkirk to Transport Department, Admiralty, , reporting severe air attack [typescript copy].
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1915
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on threatened German Zeppelin raid on London. Stating that there was no defence against an air raid on London except reprisals to be announced beforehand to the German Government, and complaining that the British Government had not taken sufficient steps to warn Germany. Asking to be relieved of his official position as the Admiralty would be responsible for the massacre.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1915
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on superiority of German submarine design, blaming the former Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Charles Briggs, also on coastwise coal traffic and North Sea fishing.
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1915
(Untitled), 06 Jan 1915
Minute from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, opposing the forthcoming bombardment of Zebrugge.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1915
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on superiority of German submarine design, blaming the former Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Charles Briggs, also on coastwise coal traffic and North Sea fishing [typescript copy].
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1915
Extract from letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on threatened German Zeppelin raid on London. Stating that there was no defence against an air raid on London except reprisals to be announced beforehand to the German Government, and complaining that the British Government had not taken sufficient steps to warn Germany. Asking to be relieved of his official position as the Admiralty would be responsible for the massacre.
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1915
(Untitled), 14 Feb 1915
Admiralty Chief Censor intercepted message from Feibalman, Amsterdam to Exchange Telegraph Co., report in British air raid on the Belgian coast [typescript copy].
(Untitled), [Aug] 1914
Letter from Commander Charles Samson (Royal Navy Flying School, Eastchurch [Kent]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the possibility of aircraft being sent to France to co-operate with the army, asking to be given the chance to go in command.
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1915 - 03 Mar 1915
Letter from William Cowan to the Director of the Air Department, Admiralty, [Captain Murray Sueter], on arranging an inspection of the Scott aero engine works. Includes note from Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] on arranging the inspection.
(Untitled), 03 Mar 1915
Minute by R M Groves, Air Division, Admiralty, on the Scott aero engine, stating that the engine needed a great deal of development work, and there was no reason for the Admiralty to support it.
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1915
Letter from William Cowan to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the Scott aero engine, stating that the engine was ready for inspection by an officer of the Admiralty Air Division.
(Untitled), 22 Jan 1915
Papers by Captain C J B H Dresner (late Central India Horse) on aircraft design and proposed attack on Heligoland.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1911
(Untitled), [Mar] [1914]
Draft of speech [by WSC] to the House of Commons on the Naval Estimates, particularly on oil, praising the efforts of the Royal Commission on Liquid Fuel, and on naval aviation, stating that Britain was well behind Germany in airship design and construction. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), 13 May [1914]
Minute from WSC to the 4th Sea Lord [Captain Cecil Lambert], on appointments to the Naval Air Service, expressing pleasure that Captain Frederic Dreyer had applied to join the service, recommending that he be appointed Inspecting Captain of the Naval Wing, and Deputy Director of the Air Department at the Admiralty; WSC also discusses Dreyer's subordinates in the Air Service. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 12 Oct 1912
Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he recommends him to read an enclosure [not present] concerning the possibility that Britain should build airships instead of aeroplanes.
(Untitled), 10 Mar 1913
Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC referring to notes [not present] and informing him that Orville Wright agrees with his opinion on the use of dirigibles.
(Untitled), 06 Sep 1914
Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC enclosing a letter [not present] from [William] Heinemann which he instructs him to burn and remarking that the weather will shortly be unsuitable for the use of Zeppelins.
(Untitled), 29 May 1920
Copy of a letter from WSC to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private in which he says that would like to convene an "Air Parliament" to discuss all aspects of aviation and asks [Northcliffe] to discuss the project with Group-Captain Scott, Air Secretary, as publicity in the newspapers will be vital to the project's success. See CHAR 28/117/156.
(Untitled), 05 Jun 1920
Letter from [Lord Northcliffe, earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he says that he has consulted people with whom he has worked on aviation, encloses a memorandum [see CHAR 28/117/158-169] about WSC's proposals for a Cambridge aviation conference and recommends that information about civil aviation should be circulated to delegates.