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Annotated reports by LSA and others on operations including: the defence of and withdrawal from Antwerp [Belgium], with a report by Major-General Julian Byng, Commanding 3rd Cavalry Division on an action fought by his troops, and figures of German strengths and positions; operations of the 4th Army Corps (November-January).

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Reports by LSA and others including Captain John Stansfeld, Gordon Highlanders, and Captain Charles Foss, 2nd Bedford Regiment, on the first battle of Ypres [Belgium].

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Baroness (Diana) Elles, Lord (Michael) Fraser of Kilmorack, Eldon Griffiths MP, Douglas Hurd MP, Sir Peter Kirk MP, Sir Anthony Royle MP and Sir Christopher Soames Also includes briefing note from Nigel Forman (Conservative Research Department), 27 June 1975, in advance of MT's meeting with Mr [Leo] Tindemans [Prime Minister of Belgium], 1 July 1975; with CRD record of the meeting Also includes briefings from Michael Young (Consolidated Goldfields)...

Scope and Contents The collection contains letters and papers relating to the life and career of Hugh Fraser Stewart and to the lives of the members of his family. The papers include correspondence of Stewart's wife Jessie, and of her father, mother and sisters. There is also correspondence of Stewart's brother-in-law Francis Jenkinson, as well as papers acquired by Stewart for his Memoir of the late librarian, published in 1926. The Stewart and Crum families's shared interest in music is represented in the...

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Letter from Arthur Wedgwood to Sir Horace Darwin; written at Belgium in envelope passed by censor 493

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Letter from Thomas B[arlow?] Wood or Thomas B[renner?] Wood to George Mudd; written at [Belgium] carbon copy of typed copy

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Letter from Thomas B[arlow?] Wood or Thomas B[renner?] Wood to George Mudd; written at [Belgium] copy by Darwin I

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[?] Papers used in the official naval history of the Second World War.

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Printed on linen-backed paper.

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Includes annotations of troop positions, a diagram of German trenches and general instructions for the Indian Army Corps.

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1:250,000. Printed on paper.

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1:250,000. Printed on linen-backed paper.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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This section principally consists of the contents of Bagnold's large map cabinet and includes maps relating to his First World War service in France and Belgium, his explorations in North Africa and the Middle East (the 1932 expedition in particular) and the LRDG.

Scope and Contents Canadian and North American Papers relating to Universal Time:Printed notice from the Royal Society of Canada drawing attention to matters of time determination and nomenclature, 1890.Letter from Wilhelm Prealt of Hamburg, in German, 1890.Letter from Sandford Fleming, Ottawa, enclosing a Bill to be laid before the United States Senate regarding the reckoning of time in the United States, 1891.Letter from [J.P. Sohiham] of Vienna sending a copy of a booklet by...

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Includes: schedules and dinner menus

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The archive consists mainly of family correspondence. It is possible from his correspondence to trace Sir Nevile's life from his time at Cheam through his studies at Eton and King's College, Cambridge and his career in the Diplomatic service to his retirement and beyond. Although the collection mainly comprises family letters, within these some reference is made to Foreign Office matters. The family correspondence and other personal papers are contained in Sections 1 - 8 and are, with the...

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Papers relating to their work in European Service of the BBC during World War II.

Scope and Contents Letters from Thomas John Fairbank to his parents, Harold Arthur Thomas and Florence Kathleen Fairbank, sent whilst serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Particularly evident during his long posting in Gibraltar, the letters frequently contain descriptions of operating cases and sketches of joints and it is understood TJF’s father responded with advice on orthopaedics. The letters have been arranged in chronological order and by year into the following...

Scope and Contents Notebook inscribed ‘Oct. ’43, Normandy ’44, Belgium Jan. ‘45’ containing 28 pages of manuscript journal entries for the period 1 October 1943 to 1 February 1945.Following a period of leave TJF joined No. 88 General Hospital on 1 October 1943 as a surgical specialist mobilizing at Kinmel Hall, Abergele in North Wales. TJF returned to France via the Normandy landings in June 1944 in charge of a field surgical unit, with which he remained for the rest of the war as it moved from Normandy...

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Printed on paper.

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Papers mainly comprising letters to his fiancée, Phyllis Bentham.

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Account of Hampton's experiences as a battery Commander, Royal Artillery, in France and Belgium, 1940, and in Normandy, 1944. No other biographical details for Hampton are known to Churchill Archives Centre..

Scope and Contents A series of letters written by Brand while travelling on the Continent, some of which are incomplete. 38 of the letters are to Brand's sister Susan, addressed until October 1788 as Miss Brand of Newmarket, thereafter, from Nov. 1789, as Miss Carr of Hadstock, near Lincoln. There is one letter from Brand to the Rev. Joseph Hall, Rector of Bartlow, who was Brand's brother-in-law, and another from G. Pretyman to Miss Brand, apparently about the possibilities of preferment for Thomas. Most of...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.