Skip to main content

Armed forces

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 982 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

(Untitled), 06 Jun 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/17/7
Scope and Contents

Draft minute from WSC to 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and copied to First Lord [of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] insisting that Operation Paul [mining of Scandinavian shipping channels to prevent ore being exported to Germany] go ahead in some form; suggests aerodromes at "Bardufoss" and "Skaanland" [both Norway] be bombed.

Dates: 06 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: papers relating to operations in and around Norway and Sweden.
 Item

(Untitled), 05 Jun 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/17/8-9
Scope and Contents Memorandum from [Admiral of the Fleet Sir] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord] setting out options for Operation Paul [mining of Scandinavian shipping channels to prevent ore being exported to Germany]: sixty modified Swordfish aircraft could carry out a bombing raid on Lulea [Sweden] from carriers situated in the vicinity of Bodo and Vest Fjord [both Norway]; however as at least a quarter of aircraft and possibly a carrier could be lost, an alternative would be to operate the aircraft from the...
Dates: 05 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: papers relating to operations in and around Norway and Sweden.
 Item

(Untitled), 05 Jun 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/17/11
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Flag Officer, Narvik [Norway, Admiral of the Fleet, 12th Lord Cork and Orrery] to WSC and high ranking members of the Admiralty marked "Secret" on action concerning aerodromes and possible landing sites in Norway. [copy].

Dates: 05 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: papers relating to operations in and around Norway and Sweden.
 Item

(Untitled), 05 Jun 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/17/12-13
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to Flag Officer, Narvik [Norway, Admiral of the Fleet, 12th Lord Cork and Orrery] requiring aerodromes at "Bardufoss" and "Skaanland" [both Norway] to be rendered incapable of use so they cannot be used by the Germans to interfere with Operation Paul [mining of Scandinavian shipping channels to prevent ore being exported to Germany]. [copy with covering note].

Dates: 05 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: papers relating to operations in and around Norway and Sweden.
 Item

(Untitled), 24 May 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/17/15
Scope and Contents

Minute from WSC to [Major-]General [Hastings] Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] requiring mines to be laid in the approach to Lulea [Sweden] before the evacuation of Narvik [Norway]; asks for a plan to be drawn up using flights from aircraft-carriers. [copy].

Dates: 24 May 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: papers relating to operations in and around Norway and Sweden.
 Item

(Untitled), 16 Oct 1941

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/20/40-42
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to General [Claude] Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief Middle East] criticising [Air Marshal Sir Arthur] Tedder's [Air Officer Commanding in Chief, RAF, Middle East] estimate of strength; looking forward to receiving news of Operation Crusader as "the whole immediate future of the war" depends on it; and suggesting that although troops are preparing for Norway they could easily be diverted to Africa if necessary. [copy].

Dates: 16 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: correspondence. [there are some later administrative notes in the file].
 Item

(Untitled), 20 Oct 1941

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/20/43-57
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to President [Franklin Roosevelt] outlining various plans and proposals concerning: attacking the German and Italian armies in Libya; French North Africa; Norway; British contributions to the Soviet war effort; defending Great Britain from a possible German invasion; placing United States forces in Northern Ireland [Ulster]; the command structure in the Middle East and the roles of the Air Force and Navy; the effect of victory in Libya on Italy and Turkey; landing tanks; the...
Dates: 20 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: correspondence. [there are some later administrative notes in the file].
 Item

(Untitled), 04 Apr 1941

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/186-187
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Correspondence (copies).
 Item

(Untitled), 08 Apr 1941

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/192-193
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Correspondence (copies).
 Item

(Untitled), 10 Apr 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/48
Scope and Contents

Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to [Eric] Seal [Principal Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty] on the effects of bombing and anti-aircraft fire.

Dates: 10 Apr 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / 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"].
 Item

(Untitled), 26 Apr 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/67-68
Scope and Contents

Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on conclusions about Allied air strengths in comparison with those of Germany.

Dates: 26 Apr 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / 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"].
 Item

(Untitled), 10 Jul 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/2A/27-28
Scope and Contents

Letter, annotated, from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] on the removal from office of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command]. [Carbon].

Dates: 10 Jul 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Correspondence (copies).
 Item

(Untitled), 16 Sep 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/260-262
Scope and Contents

Letter from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to WSC responding to suggestions for war preparation and discussing European strengths and weaknesses, commenting on the French Air Force. [annotated by WSC].

Dates: 16 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: Secret and Personal correspondence.
 Item

(Untitled), 18 Sep 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/263-266
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreeing on production objectives of 2000 aircraft per month and the need for the Army to be planned on a 50 or 55 division scale. [carbon, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Dates: 18 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: Secret and Personal correspondence.
 Item

(Untitled), 01 Oct 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/303-307
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on issues such as training of territorial troops by deployment to India; the need for more Air Squadrons and the exaggerated emphasis placed on Air Raid Precautions. [typed copy, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Dates: 01 Oct 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: Secret and Personal correspondence.
 Item

(Untitled), 18 Sep 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/314
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, anticipating a German air attack on aircraft factories [carbon].

Dates: 18 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: Secret and Personal correspondence.
 Item

(Untitled), 01 Oct 1939 - 31 Oct 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/3/2
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, October 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: various naval directors; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; the Sea Lords, particularly 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; other senior officers and civil servants.Subjects covered by the...
Dates: 01 Oct 1939 - 31 Oct 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: First Lord's minutes. [printed].
 Item

(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939 - 30 Nov 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/3/3
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, November 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser] and 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound]; various naval directors; Professor [F A] Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] and Major...
Dates: 01 Nov 1939 - 30 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: First Lord's minutes. [printed].
 Item

(Untitled), 01 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1939

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/3/4
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, December 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser], 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound], and 4th Sea Lord [and Chief of Supplies and Transport, Vice-Admiral Guy Royle]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain]; [Permanent] Secretary...
Dates: 01 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: First Lord's minutes. [printed].
 Item

(Untitled), Jan 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/6/1
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, January 1940.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly 1st [Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound], 2nd [Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel, Admiral Sir Charles Little], and [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; various naval...
Dates: Jan 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: First Lord's minutes. [printed].
 Item

(Untitled), Feb 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/6/2
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, February 1940.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly 1st [Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser]; various naval directors; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; Sir James Lithgow [Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom...
Dates: Feb 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: First Lord's minutes. [printed].
 Item

(Untitled), Mar 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/6/3
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, March 1940.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly 1st [Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound], [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser], and 5th [Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services, Vice-Admiral Guy Royle]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; Controller [of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs, Sir James Lithgow]; Deputy...
Dates: Mar 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / Official: Admiralty: First Lord's minutes. [printed].
 Item

(Untitled), 19 Jan 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/7
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / 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"].
 Item

(Untitled), 25 Jan 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/14
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / 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"].
 Item

(Untitled), 26 Jan 1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/7/15
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Admiralty / 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"].

Staff Interface | Visit ArchivesSpace.org | Accessibility Statement | Privacy Policy | For help, check out the ArchiveSearch LibGuide | v3.5.0 | Send Feedback or Report a Problem