Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on the Admiralty's desire to defend Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne [France] as long as possible. [Carbon].

Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on bad military news from France, asking him to consider the possibility of Germany controlling Calais and the French coasts. [Carbon].

Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on military news from France, reporting that the general impression was more favourable. [Carbon].

Telegram from Admiralty to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on the decision to send the Naval Division to defend Ostend [Belgium]. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

Telegram from the Ministry of Marine, Paris [France] to Admiralty, on the transport of 16,000 Belgian troops from Le Havre to Ostend [Belgium]. Includes replies from Vice-Admiral Sir (Frederick]) Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff, Admiralty], Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and WSC. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary, [Sir (William) Graham Greene], 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Vice-Admiral Sir (Frederick) Doveton Sturdee] on the deployment of the Marine Brigade in Ostend [Belgium]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary, Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], with orders for Colonel Sir George Aston, Royal Marine Brigade, ordering him to occupy and fortify Ostend [Belgium], to create a diversion favourable to the Belgians advancing from Antwerp, and to threaten the western flank of the German southward advance; also giving him the temporary rank of Brigadier-General. [Carbon].

Report from H W Wilson, correspondent for the Daily Mail, on the situation in Ostend [Belgium], following the removal of the garrison to Antwerp. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Field Marshal Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres], on a naval bombardment to support the advance of the Army on Ostende, Belgium, suggesting that the Navy attack Zeebrugge, the base of the German submarines, at the same time. Also includes Admiralty memorandum sketching out naval support for the army. [Hand-written drafts, initialled by WSC].

Letter from Field Marshal Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres] (Headquarters, British Army) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] asking about the possible use of armoured boats on the canals. [Hand-written, signed by French, and initialled by WSC].

Letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Field Marshal Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres] on his request for armed craft for service on the canals. [Hand-written copy, signed by WSC].

Telegram from Field Marshal Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres] to Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], stating that the naval support of the Army's attack on Ostende [Belgium] had been "most useful". French recommends that the same co-operation be given the next day, with note by WSC, confirming that naval co-operation would be continued. [Initialled by WSC].

Telegram from Field Marshal Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres] to Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], stating that the advance along the Belgian coast from Nieuport was not as fast as hoped, and asking for surprise bombardment by monitor and big gun ships. [Typescript copy].

Telegram from the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armies [the Grand Duke Nicholas] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, accepting in principle the offer of assistance from the Royal Navy to a Russian Army landing on the North German Coast, if the British fleet gained command of the Baltic Sea. [Typescript copy].

Map of the Western Front, with forts and defences marked: scale 1:70,000.

Map of the area surrounding Antwerp [Belgium], showing Allied defences, scale 1:40,000.

Wartime articles kept by A.H.P.'s secretary.

Wartime articles kept by A.H.P.'s secretary.

Wartime articles kept by A.H.P.'s secretary.

Wartime articles kept by A.H.P.'s secretary.

Wartime articles kept by A.H.P.'s secretary.

Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.