First World War (1914-1918)
Found in 1505 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [1915]
Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to WSC explaining his role in the [Dardanelles campaign] and asserting that "the outside world is quite certain that I have pushed you and not you me" and that [Herbert Asquith, later Lord Oxford and Asquith] is the only one who knows that the opposite is true. Typescript copy incorrectly dated 12 April 1918.
(Untitled), 20 Jul 1917
Continuation of a detailed report to the secretary of the Admiralty by a member of the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division (Kozova, Austria) on the effects of the March revolution in Russia on Russian military discipline and support for the war, and the operations of the Armoured Car Division in Russia against Austrian and German forces, including details of casualties. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Jul] [1917]
Map showing the disposition of Russian and Austria forces and the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division around Kozova (Austria) and Brzezany.
(Untitled), 16 Aug 1917
Continuation of a detailed report by a member of the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division (Proskurov, Russia) on the Division's operations on the Russian front, including details of casualties. Includes an assessment of General Brussilov. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1917]
Letter from Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson (48 Dover Street, [London]) to WSC enclosing a letter to Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] stating the case for sending police forces composed of Allied troops to Russia [see CHAR 2/95/73-81].
(Untitled), Apr 1917
Articles from the National Review by Leo Maxse attacking ministers, including WSC, whom he believes gravely underestimated the German threat before the war and have been too sanguine since it broke out, defending Lord Kitchener against his critics, and considering what he (Maxse) sees as the damning verdict on the Government of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1917]
Article from a periodical on the grave shortcomings of the Government revealed by the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), Apr 1917
Article from the National Review by "a Naval Correspondent" entitled "the end of the Fisher legend" considering the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher].
(Untitled), Apr 1917
Article from the Nineteenth Century and After on the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1917]
Part of an article by John Leyland on the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), Apr 1917
Article from the Contemporary Review by Alexander MacCallum Scott on the interim report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry.
(Untitled), 10 Mar 1917
Letter from [WSC] to David Lloyd George complaining about the excisions made by the Government in the report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1917
Draft of a white paper containing notes to replace the sense of some of the excisions in the full report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Sent with CHAR 2/97/14.
(Untitled), 20 Apr 1917
Letter from Sir Maurice Bonham Carter (Dorset House, Dorset Street, [London]) to WSC conveying the reaction of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to some of WSC's papers relating to the Dardanelles expedition.
(Untitled), 23 Feb 1917
Letter from Major-General Charles Callwell (Canada House, Kingsway, [London]) to WSC reporting that he cannot find a letter to him written by WSC [in 1915] and stating that he would not now change anything in his reply except his assertion that an attack on Serbia would be the most deadly blow Britain could suffer.
(Untitled), [1917]
Letter from [WSC] to Sir William Pickford [later Lord Sterndale] arguing that the evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry from Rear-Admiral Roger Keyes [later Lord Keyes] showed that there was universal agreement about the continuation of the naval attack on the straits until Rear-Admiral John de Robeck called it off in March 1915, after which the navy's offensive effectiveness was severely reduced. Typescript copy. Annotated: "not sent in".
(Untitled), Feb 1917 - 29 May 1917
Statement by WSC to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry on the second phase of the operations. Written Feb 1917; printed 29 May 1917. Another, incomplete, copy at CHAR 2/98/2.
(Untitled), Feb 1917 - 29 May 1917
Statement by WSC to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry on the second phase of operations. Written Feb 1917; printed 29 May 1917. Part of pages 3 & 4 and the whole of pages 5 & 6 missing. A complete copy at CHAR 2/98/1.
(Untitled), Feb 1917
Statement by WSC to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry on the third phase of operations. Proof annotated by WSC. Another copy at CHAR 2/98/4.
(Untitled), 1914 - 1915
Printed copies of documents appended to WSC's statement to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry on the first phase of operations.
(Untitled), 1915 - 1917
Printed copies of documents appended to WSC's statement to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry on the second and third phases of operations. Another, annotated, copy at CHAR 2/99/3, and 3 sets of duplicates at CHAR 2/99/4 - 69.
(Untitled), 1915 - 1917
3 sets of annotated duplicates for CHAR 2/99/2.
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1917
Evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Sent with CHAR 2/100/1.
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1917
Evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Sent with CHAR 2/100/1.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1917
Evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Sent with CHAR 2/100/1.