Armed forces
Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 14 Nov 1914
(Untitled), 15 Nov 1914
Letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Field Marshal Sir John French [Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force, later 1st Lord Ypres] expressing disappointment at the treatment of the Naval Air Service in France and Belgium. [Hand-written copy, unsigned, annotated "Not sent"].
(Untitled), 15 Nov 1914
Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Field Marshal Sir John French [Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force, later 1st Lord Ypres] on air attacks on German Zeppelin bases. WSC states that all naval aircraft and armoured cars would be withdrawn to Dunkirk [France], "so as to keep quite clear of the British Army and its communications", but would remain there for the present. [Hand-written copy, unsigned].
(Untitled), 20 Sep 1939
Letter from WSC to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, on the responsibilities of junior officers in anti-aircraft batteries. [carbon].
(Untitled), 21 Sep 1939
Letter from Sir Kingsley Wood [Secretary of State for Air] (Air Ministry) to WSC explaining Air Ministry policy on anti-aircraft responses to hostile activity and allowing authority in this matter to rest with the Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command [Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding].
(Untitled), 19 Sep 1939
Letter from Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, (Air Ministry) to WSC agreeing that Germany may try to attack the Air Force as an initial act, and explaining that steps had been taken to protect the aircraft industry.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1939
Letter from Squadron Leader Charles Anderson (Royal Air Force Station, Catfoss, near Hull [Yorkshire]) to WSC, enclosing a memorandum on the unfitness for service of a number of aerodromes on the West Coast, rendering trained men such as himself unemployed during a time of shortage of men and machinery.
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1939
Letter from WSC to Lieutenant-Colonel John Moore-Brabazon [later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara] regretting that he did not wish to be considered for the position of civil head of the Fleet Air Arm which WSC was proposing to introduce. [carbon].
(Untitled), 29 Sep 1939
Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain suggesting [1st] Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran] for the post of Additional Civil Lord overseeing the Fleet Air Arm and [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] to take over Lloyd's position as Chairman of the British Council. [carbon].
(Untitled), 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910
Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC reporting that he is going to Aldershot [Hampshire] to examine the airship construction department there, and that he does not think the Government can usefully intervene in the deveopment of [Louis Brennan's] monorail system. States that he is ready to take up WSC's plan of a police territorial brigade.
(Untitled), 27 Nov [1914] - 30 Nov 1914
Note by WSC (Admiralty) to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] rejecting a Swiss complaint about British aircraft crossing their territory, 27 Nov. With reply by Grey that the aviators be given a chance to reply to the complaint., 30 Nov.
(Untitled), 28 Jun 1915
Cutting from the Daily Mail: editorial urging the Government to seek the advice of Orville Wright on the best type of aircraft to produce for the war.
(Untitled), 11 Mar 1916
(Untitled), 25 May 1916
Letter from Lord Curzon (1 Carlton House Terrace, [London]) to WSC asking him to give advice to the Air Board.
(Untitled), 26 May 1916
Letter from Lord Curzon (1 Carlton House Terrace, [London]) to WSC assuring him that his criticism of WSC [over the Air Board] was not meant seriously and suggesting a date for WSC to come and advise the Board.
(Untitled), 07 Jun 1915
Letter from Rear-Admiral Arthur Limpus (HM Dockyard, Malta) to WSC commending the article in the Observer of 30 May on "phases of the sea campaign" [praising WSC] and advising him to give up flying because "the Air service no longer needs the impulse you gave it.".
(Untitled), 14 Jun 1915
Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the valour of British airmen and the need for the state to regulate the war profits of employers as well as the wages of employees.
(Untitled), 11 May 1916
Extracts from the proceedings of a meeting of the War Committee at which the formation of an Air Board was recommended. Annotated: "Sir F E Smith" [later 1st Lord Birkenhead].
(Untitled), 03 May 1917
Letter from Cyril Longhurst (Offices of the War Cabinet) to WSC enclosing a minute of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on the allotment and location of seaplane and aeroplane stations [see CHAR 2/90/5] and referring to the Calais conferences. Signed and annotated typescript.
(Untitled), [25] [Jun] [1914]
Minute of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on the allotment and location of seaplane and aeroplane stations reporting the comments of the chairman [WSC] on the usefulness of torpedo-carrying aircraft. Sent with CHAR 2/90/4.
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1917
Letter from R Borlase Matthews (106 Earl's Court Road, Kensington, [London]) to WSC criticising the Air Board's decision not to supply technical information to the United States. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 18 Dec 1911
Letter from ? Wright (Head Quarters, Ottoman Army, Dehibat [Tunisia] via Nallent, Tripoli, [Libya]) to WSC describing: the excellence and toughness of Arab and Turkish soldiers; the great value of aircraft for reconnaisance; the massacre committed by the Italians.
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1945
Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Secret and Personal" congratulating him, the Canadian Government and the Royal Canadian Air Force on the occasion of the formal end to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan; and emphasising its importance in achieving superiority over the German Air Force.