North Africa (general region)
Found in 296 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 01 Feb 1941 - 28 Feb 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941 - 30 Apr 1941
(Untitled), 01 May 1941 - 31 May 1941
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1941 - 30 Jun 1941
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1941 - 30 Jul 1941
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1941 - 31 Aug 1941
(Untitled), 01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1941 - 30 Nov 1941
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1941 - 25 Dec 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
Telegram from General [Sir Archibald] Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC advising that shipping at Massawa will be dropped now Asmara [Eritrea] has been surrendered and commenting on other aspects of the conflict in northern Africa.
(Untitled), 14 May 1941
Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC with detailed assessment of likely German attack: Ukraine Caucasus, Middle East plus French Africa, Britain and the Atlantic. With note in the hand of John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] that the Dominions Office have asked for this telegram to be circulated to the War Cabinet and Defence Committee.
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1942
Letter from WSC to Major-General Noel Holmes [Director of Movements, War Office] congratulating him and his staff on the planning and execution of operation Torch [codename for Allied invasion of North West Africa].
(Untitled), 30 Jul 1942 - 25 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 02 Sep 1942 - 30 Sep 1942
(Untitled), 02 Oct 1942 - 31 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1942 - 30 Nov 1942
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1942 - 03 Jan 1942
Telegrams from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including: enemy movement around Agedabia [Ajdabiyah, Libya]; prisoner- of-war figures and a damage report following surrender of Bardia; success at Bardia due to tanks and South African infantry, the RAF and the Australian and Free French air forces.
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1942
Telegram from WSC to the Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] on his proposals for Allied landings on Atlantic coast [? of North Africa], depending on the progress of General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] and the transatlantic development of operation "Gymnast" [codename for the plans for the British occupation of North West Africa].
(Untitled), 01 Jan 1942
Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including infantry and tanks in the Western desert against Germans and Italians, prisoner-of-war figures and South African divisions.
(Untitled), 11 Jan 1942
Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, asking how the retreat and escape of General Erwin Rommel's Italian troops affects "Acrobat" and also "Gymnast" and "Super-Gymnast" [codenames for an operation against Tripoli, Libya, the plans for the British occupation of North West Africa and a combined landing by British and United States forces].
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1942
(Untitled), 05 Nov 1942 - 07 Nov 1942
Letter from King George VI to WSC congratulating him on the success of the 8th Army in Egypt [at El Alamein]; with WSC's reply on the value of the King's support and the progress of "Torch" [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Africa] and notes by John Martin and Francis Brown [Private Secretaries to WSC] ascertaining that the King's letter will not be published.