First World War (1914-1918)
Found in 1504 Collections and/or Records:
Official: Cabinet: printed papers on World War I., Jul 1915
Official: Cabinet: printed papers on World War I., Oct 1915 - Nov 1915
Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: correspondence and papers., Aug 1915 - Oct 1915
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence: Military Aspects of the Continental Problem (1911): reprint., 13 Aug 1911 - Sep 1914
Includes: Theophile Delcasse [French Minister of Foreign Affairs] on WSC's foresight in his memorandum of 1911; a reprint of WSC's memorandum, Military Aspects of the Continental Problem, on the action to be taken by Britain in the event of Germany invading France.
Official: early career, 1904 - 1942
Includes: midshipman's journal; an account of the battle of Dogger Bank; naval airship papers; correspondence and papers from Turkey; flying logbooks.
Official: Munitions., Jun 1917 - Nov 1917
E (Engineering) Mechanical warfare - various papers on tanks, including programme for demonstration of experimental tanks; letter from Lord Robert Cecil [later Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on the problems of the Tank Corps in France.
Official: Munitions., Sep 1917 - 31 May 1918
E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare Department - various papers, mainly on tanks including memo by Sir Tennyson d'Eyncourt; Intelligence reports on German tanks; papers on tank production; papers of Munitions Council Committee on Tanks, Sep 1917.
Official: Munitions., 08 Aug 1918
E (Engineering) Memorandum on the Tactical Employment of Tanks by Sir Albert Stern, Director General, Mechanical Warfare Supply, Ministry of Munitions [typescript].
Official: Munitions., Oct 1917 - 30 Sep 1918
E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department - papers on the Anglo-American Tank Agreement and erection of Factory at Chateauroux, France.
Official: Munitions., 1918
P (Projectiles) Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.
Official: Munitions., 1918
P (Projectiles) Appendix to Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.
Official: Munitions., Apr 1917 - Dec 1917
R (Requirements and Statistics) Papers on the guns and ammunition programme for 1918, including memorandum on the War Office requirements; memorandum on the Artillery Position on the Western front for the French and British Armies, Apr-Aug 1917; comparison of Allied and German Artillery.
Official: Munitions., Jan 1918 - Dec 1918
R (Requirements and Statistics) Papers on Guns and Ammunition including copy of the Gun Ammunition Programme for 1918; letter from William Page to the War Office on the effect of strikes on gun output; report on state of wear of guns in the field; tables of expenditure and stocks of gun ammunition in France; memorandum by William Page on efforts to achieve greater efficiency with Artillery.
Official: Munitions., Jul 1917 - Dec 1917
R (Requirements and Statistics) Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics - weekly reports of expenditure and stocks of gun ammunition in France.
Official: Munitions., Jan 1918 - Nov 1918
R (Requirements and Statistics) Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics weekly reports of expenditure and stocks of guns and ammunition in France.
Official: Munitions., Sep 1917 - Oct 1917
Official: Munitions., Oct 1917 - Nov 1917
Official: Munitions., Nov 1917 - Dec 1917
Official: Munitions., 02 Jul 1917 - 20 Sep 1918
General correspondence: Correspondents include Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, C. in C., British Armies in France (3) on supply of arms and ammunition; Major-General Sir John Headlam (2) on numbers of troops in the field; Major-General Sir Reginald Barnes, 57th Division, on the need for air superiority on the Western Front; General Charles Harington; Major-General Noel Birch; Christopher Addison, Ministry of Reconstruction, on the Pledges Bill; and Bertram Romilly.
Official: Munitions., 10 Jul 1917 - Sep 1918
Various Papers: Including Memorandum on high explosive bombs dropped by aeroplanes; memorandum on export of materials to neutral countries contiguous to enemy territory; memorandum by Major-General John Headlam on use of the canal system in France; and report of Committee enquiring into the recommendations of the Select Committee on National Expenditure regarding the works of the British Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Co. Ltd at Spondon.
Official: Munitions., 10 Aug 1918 - 23 Nov 1918
Official: Munitions., 01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918
Official: Munitions., Apr 1918 - May 1918
Official: Prime Minister: Maps., Sep 1944 - Jan 1945
Includes maps of the Western and Italian fronts and a map of Southern Greece.