Foreign policy
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, minutes, notes, and other papers., 31 Dec 1920 - 31 Jan 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/71
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Correspondents include: Colonel Walter Kirke [Deputy Director Military Operations]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (4); Secretary to the Cabinet [Sir Maurice Hankey].Also includes minutes and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; a map of Persia [later Iran]; WSC's notes on a visit to Paris [France] and talks with Alexandre Millerand...
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31 Dec 1920 - 31 Jan 1921
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on demobilisation problems., 01 Jan 1919 - 31 Jan 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/3
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Correspondents include: Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke [Quartermaster-General to the British Armies in France]; Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders] (2); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; High Commissioner [?in Siberia, Robert Hodgson]; Lieutenant-General 10th Lord Cavan, Commander-in-Chief, Italy; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff]; Sir Eric Geddes [Minister without Portfolio]...
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01 Jan 1919 - 31 Jan 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 Apr 1919 - 30 Apr 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/6
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Correspondents include: General Sir Ian Hamilton refuting press allegations; Walter Roch on the Dardanelles [Turkey] Inquiry; Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders] (2); General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] on matters discussed at the Paris [France] Peace Conference (7); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Colonel James Blair [Chief, British Military Mission in Siberia]; 1st Lord Haldane...
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01 Apr 1919 - 30 Apr 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 May 1919 - 31 May 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/7
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Correspondents include: Walter Long [First Lord of the Admiralty] on cemeteries in France; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] (7); 1st Lord Inverforth [earlier Andrew Weir, Minister of Munitions] (2); Major-General Neill Malcolm, British Military Mission, Berlin [Germany], sending on a letter purporting to be by Enver Pasha appealing for British intervention to preserve Turkey; Elizabeth Haldane on the territorial force nursing service; Lieutenant-General Sir Philip...
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01 May 1919 - 31 May 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 Aug 1919 - 31 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/10
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Correspondents include: General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] (4); General Sir William Robertson [Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine] on his baronetcy; Lord French [earlier Sir John French, later 1st Lord Ypres, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland] on his account of the events of 1914; Major-General John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone, Under-Secretary of State for Air] on air force matters and Sir Frederick Banbury's role in the O'Sullivan enquiry (3); Jack Scott...
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01 Aug 1919 - 31 Aug 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 24 Aug 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/11
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Correspondents include: Lieutenant-General Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky (3); Lord French [earlier Sir John French, later 1st Lord Ypres, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland] and General Sir William Robertson [Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine] on Robertson being appointed to Ireland; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] (9) on subjects including matters discussed at the Paris [France] Peace Conference and Wilson's health; Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of...
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24 Aug 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 Dec 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/14
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Correspondents include: Sir Reginald Brade [Secretary, War Office] on promotions and his health; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (2); Robert Donald of the Globe; H A Gwynne, [Editor] of the Morning Post; Niall, 10th Duke of Argyll; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff]; 1st Lord Curzon [Lord President of Council] (2); Sir Charles Darling on his son (2); Major-General Boris Heroys; Sir Maurice...
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01 Dec 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 Jul 1919 - 31 Jul 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/9
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Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of the Air Staff] on the availability of aeroplanes for Air Ministry officials; Frederick Guest [Patronage Secretary, Treasury]; Major-General John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone, Under-Secretary of State for Air] on air force matters, including flying casualties (2); Austen Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2) on subjects including War Office stocks and army estimates; Clive Wigram [Assistant Private Secretary and...
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01 Jul 1919 - 31 Jul 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence on Russian policy while WSC was at the Paris [France] Peace Conference., 15 Feb 1919 - 18 Feb 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/20
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Correspondents include: David Lloyd George (2); Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary]; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff].Subjects covered: possible negotiations with the Bolsheviks; British assistance to the anti-Bolshevik forces; the effect of war with the Bolsheviks on the political situation in Britain.
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15 Feb 1919 - 18 Feb 1919
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Official: War and Air: intelligence reports, including material from the K K Series and others., 27 Dec 1920-5 Jan 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/74
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Includes secret intelligence reports and intercepted documents from and about the Soviet Union, Greece, India and Japan on various subjects including: Soviet and Bolshevik issues such as Anglo-Russian trade, Soviet government telegrams to the Daily Herald, orders to Soviet troops and dissatisfaction in the Red Army, and the anti-Bolshevik (White Russian) movement; Sylvia Pankhurst and Communist publications; security of cyphers; affairs in Turkey including the anti-American movement and...
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27 Dec 1920-5 Jan 1921
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Poland., 18 Sep 1919 - 15 Sep 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/32
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Correspondents include: ?[Chief Allied Mission, Baltic, Lieutenant-General Sir Hubert Gough]; Major Eric Skaife; Brigadier-General Edward Spears [Head of the British Military Mission to Paris, France]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (5); Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister to Poland]; Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Briggs; General Anton Denikin; Lieutenant-General Romanovsky; Cecil Battine; Boris Savinkov (16); Sir...
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18 Sep 1919 - 15 Sep 1920
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Romania., 01 Apr 1919 - 04 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/33
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Correspondents include: Major-General Walter Greenly [Chief of Military Mission, Romania]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (2); Major-General Raymond de Candolle (2); Major-General William Thwaites [Director of Military Intelligence].Also includes copy telegram from WSC to Zeidler [?Red Cross]; notes of interview with Romanian government officials.Subjects covered by the file include: French influence; comparisons...
Dates:
01 Apr 1919 - 04 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia., 04 Feb 1919 - 30 Apr 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/23
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Correspondents include: General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff]; Brigadier-General Charles Grant; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War]; Major-General Percy Radcliffe [Director of Military Operations, War Office] (2); Rear-Admiral Sydney Fremantle, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff; G Sydorenko [Chief of the Ukrainian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference] (2); Alexander Trepov.Also includes House of Commons...
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04 Feb 1919 - 30 Apr 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia., 05 May 1919 - 30 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/24
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Correspondents include: Major Sir Ernest Shackleton; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (12); Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Briggs (5); General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff]; William de Ropp; Vladimir Litvinov-Falynsky; C Nabokov.Also includes copy minutes, telegrams and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington];...
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05 May 1919 - 30 Aug 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia., 02 Sep 1919 - 22 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/25
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Correspondents include: Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (7); Gregori Alexinsky; Lieutenant-General Sir Hubert Gough [Chief, Allied Mission Baltic]; General Nikolai Youdenitch; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Kisch (2); Major-General Neill Malcolm [British Military Mission, Berlin, Germany]; Brigadier-General Edward Spears [Head of the British Military Mission to Paris, France]; local government officials from north...
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02 Sep 1919 - 22 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia., 07 Oct 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/26
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Correspondents include: Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (26); Lord Kilmarnock [later 21st Lord Erroll, 1st Secretary, Copenhagen, Denmark]; David Lloyd George; Major-General Boris Heroys (2); Lieutenant-General Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky; Major-General Percy Radcliffe [Director of Military Operations]; Major Newson [United States Army]; Colonel Henry Needham; Major Eric Skaife; ?General Bicherakhov;...
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07 Oct 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia, mainly between WSC and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War]., 31 Dec 1919 - 23 Nov 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/56
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Also includes correspondence from Boris Savinkov and Arthur Balfour [Lord President of Council], and from Sinclair to the Director of Military Operations [Major-General Sir Percy Radcliffe] and Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; notes of interviews with Ukrainian political figures; a comparison of the views of WSC and David Lloyd George.Subjects include: support for Generals Anton Denikin and Peter Wrangel; Galician Ukrainians; the general military...
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31 Dec 1919 - 23 Nov 1920
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russian economic affairs., 18 Jun 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/27
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Correspondents include: Oliver Locker-Lampson; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (18); Vladimir Litvinov-Falynsky (2); Sir Picton Bagge (6); George Young (2); 1st Lord Curzon [Lord President of Council] (2); Frederick Butler (Department of Overseas Trade) (2); Colonel Richard Steel; Piotr Rutenberg; and Sidney Reilly on intelligence reports about Rutenberg.Subjects covered by the file include: economic assistance for...
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18 Jun 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russian economic affairs., 03 Oct 1919 - 10 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/28
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Correspondents include: Sir Picton Bagge (8); Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (9); William Peters; Carol Yaroshinsky; Sir William Clark (Department of Overseas Trade); Peter Bark; Brigadier-General Edward Spears [Head of the British Military Mission to Paris]; Sidney Reilly with information about fund-raising for Russia in France and the United States, and a paper on the situation in Russia (3).Subjects covered by the...
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03 Oct 1919 - 10 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russian economic affairs for WSC and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War]., 03 Jan 1920 - 19 Oct 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/57
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Correspondents include: Sidney Reilly (3); Sir Picton Bagge (3); a representative of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company.Also includes copy letter from Sinclair to Peter Bark.Subjects include: Reilly's scheme for trade with Russia; German assistance to the Russian economy; reopening regular channels of communication with Russia.
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03 Jan 1920 - 19 Oct 1920
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Official: War and Air: printed War Office General Staff papers on Russia., 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/58
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Includes a narrative of events in Siberia, 1918-1920; Major-General Sir Herbert Holman's [Chief of British Military Mission to South Russia] final report; papers on the campaign in and the evacuation of north Russia, 1919; and a copy of a supplement to the London Gazette.
Dates:
1920
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Official: War and Air: printed War Office General Staff papers on Russia., 12 Jan 1919 - 08 Oct 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/29
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Includes reports and other papers on: the internal situation in Russia; a short history of events from November 1917 to February 1919; a visit to the headquarters of the volunteer army in south Russia by Major-General Frederick Poole; the situation in north Russia; operations by Allied forces in the Archangel district; the British Military Mission, South Russia; and a report by Major-General Herbert Holman [Chief of British Military Mission to South Russia].
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12 Jan 1919 - 08 Oct 1919
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Official: War and Air: reports and correspondence from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War], mainly keeping WSC informed of affairs during his visit to France., 01 Jan 1921 - 11 Feb 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/76
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Subjects include: territorial army pay; Russian finances and Leonid Krassin [Commissar for Foreign Trade]; Sinclair's sources of information; French and United States foreign policy; information on the political situation in Poland, Russia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Persia [later Iran], Mesopotamia [later Iraq], and other countries; Moreton Frewen's travels in north America; comments on a history of World War I; WSC's access to secret telegrams; intelligence reports on subjects including Poland...
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01 Jan 1921 - 11 Feb 1921
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Official: War and Air: telegrams and letters on Russia., 14 Jan 1919 - 30 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/22
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Includes telegrams and letters from: Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Brigadier-General Edmund Ironside [Commander-in-Chief Allied troops, Archangel, Northern Russia]; Lieutenant-General Sir George Milne [Commanded the British Forces at Constantinople, later Istanbul, Turkey]; Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces at Murmansk [Russia, Sir Charles Maynard]; Major-General Sir Alfred Knox [Chief of British Military Mission to Siberia] (6); Major-General Herbert...
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14 Jan 1919 - 30 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: telegrams and notes on the Middle East., 09 Sep 1919 - 22 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/34
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Correspondents include: Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia [later Iraq, Major-General Sir George McMunn; until January 1920] (3); Lieutenant-General Sir George Milne [Commanded the British Forces at Constantinople, later Istanbul, Turkey] on the occupation of Constantinople, his promotion to General, and assisting south Russia (3); Major-General Percy Radcliffe [Director of Military Operations, War Office] (2); Jack Scott [Air Secretary and Private Secretary to WSC] (2); Air-Marshal Sir Hugh...
Dates:
09 Sep 1919 - 22 Dec 1920
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