Armed forces
Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 26 Sep 1935
Letter from Lord Winterton (Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold) to WSC, reporting conversations with Sir Robert Horne and Leo Amery on defence. Stating that Amery had most disquieting news that the "havering and incapacity" at the Air Ministry was just as bad as under the former Minister [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister had replaced Lord Londonderry in June]. Suggesting a deputation to the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] asking him to investigate the rumours about the state of the Ministry.
(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), [1914]
Note by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on seniority of officers of the Naval Air Service. [Hand-written].
(Untitled), 31 May [1914]
(Untitled), [1913]
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of the East Coast of Britain, pointing out the inadequacy of 4 cruisers, 74 destroyers and torpedo boats and 18 submarines for maintaining a regular patrol and outlining measures to improve the effectiveness of the coast watch, including the use of territorial forces and aerial squadrons. [Carbon].
(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), 16 Sep 1914
Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Director of the Air Division, Admiralty [Captain Murray Sueter] on the results of the Aeroplane Conference on aircraft production. [Typescript copy on Colonial Office notepaper].
(Untitled), 07 Nov 1914
Admiralty minute to Field Marshal Sir John French [Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force, later 1st Lord Ypres), on the use of naval aircraft in France and Belgium. The minute acknowledges that the aircraft were under the direction of the Commander-in- Chief of the Army, but asks that they be reserved for their primary purpose, the destruction of Zeppelins in their sheds. [Typescript copy of Colonial Office notepaper].
(Untitled), 23 Nov 1914
Statement made by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] in the House of Commons, on an attack on the Zeppelin Airship Factory at Friedrichshaven [Germany] by pilots of the Royal Naval Air Service, led by Squadron Commander E F Briggs. [Carbon].
(Untitled), Feb 1914
Admiralty statement on expenditure on aeronautics by Britain, France and Germany, 1911-13.
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1913 - 09 Jun 1914
First Lord of the Admiralty's Minutes: Fourth Series (Air, August 1913 to June 1914). [Printed].
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1914
Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to General [Sir Ian Hamilton, General Officer Commanding-in Chief, Mediterranean] on the favourable prospects open to aeroplanes and airships in the Mediterranean, and his intention to start Air Stations at Malta and Gibraltar. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), 07 Mar 1914
(Untitled), 08 Apr 1914
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], 4th Sea Lord [Captain Cecil Lambert] and others, on the Naval Air Service, stating that the social precedence of flying officers should be regulated by their substantive naval rank. WSC also states that flying officers should wear executive naval uniforms, but that they would be excluded from executive command outside the Air Service. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), 20 May 1914
Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], and the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and 4th Sea Lord [Captain Cecil Lambert], on the Naval Air Service, particularly the rank and status of Squadron Commanders, the question of uniform and the call-up of reservists. [Typescript copy].
(Untitled), c 1914
Letter from General Sir Charles Douglas [Chief of the Imperial General Staff] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the problem of recognition of friendly aircraft. Douglas states that he had issued orders to Commands not to fire on aircraft pending further orders, and gives a list of prohibited areas, where airships would be fired at if they did not make the prescribed signal. Douglas also comments on sending infantry to guard strategic sites against attack.
(Untitled), c 1914
Note by James Masterton Smith [Private Secretary to WSC] to the Director of Air Department [Captain Murray Sueter] on aircraft recognition by anti-aircraft batteries.
(Untitled), 28 Jul 1914
Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on ship dispositions, also on the protection of magazines and oil tanks from "evilly disposed persons" and attacks by aircraft. [Typescript, initialled by WSC, and annotated by Battenberg].
(Untitled), 27 Jul 1914 - 28 Jul 1914
Minute by the Air Department, Admiralty, on prohibited areas for British airships. Includes note from Captain Murray Sueter [Director, Air Department] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven].
(Untitled), 03 Aug 1928
Letter from C L Bullock (Air Ministry] to WSC reminding him, with reference to his wish to fly from Biggin Hill [Kent] to Tidworth [Hampshire] next week, that Monday is a Bank Holiday when the Air Ministry and RAF stations are closed.
(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), 07 Jan 1935
Letter from F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, enclosing draft letter from WSC and Austen Chamberlain to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald], on the need for a Committee to discuss the problem of defence against night bombers.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1935
Letter from WSC to [Austen Chamberlain], on draft letter from WSC and Chamberlain to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald], on the need for a Committee to discuss the problem of defence against night bombers [carbon].
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1935
Letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain (58 Rutland Gate [London]) to WSC, informing him that he had signed and sent a letter [jointly from himself and WSC, on the need for an enquiry on air defence] to the Prime Minister [James Ramsay MacDonald], with a covering note.Chamberlain also says that the second volume of WSC's biography of the 1st Duke of Marlborough had formed his Christmas reading, and had fascinated him: "What a man!".