First World War (1914-1918)
Found in 1504 Collections and/or Records:
Public and Political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: evidence of Sir Maurice Hankey., 1916
Public and Political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: "Lord Fisher's narrative of his connection with the Dardanelles operations." [Lord Fisher, earlier Sir John Fisher]., 1914 - 1916
Public and political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: minority minute and memorandum by Walter Roch., 22 Dec 1916
Public and Political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: minutes of evidence by WSC., 28 Sep 1916
Public and Political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: minutes of the War Council, Jan to Feb 1915, and the Dardanelles Committee, Jun to Oct 1915., 1915 - 1916
With covering letter, 13 Sep 1916.
Public and political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: prints, notes and other papers., 1907 - 1917
Public and Political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: statement by WSC on operations to the end of the first phase: documents appended., 1914 - 1916
Public and political: evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., Jan 1917 - Feb 1917
Public and Political: General: Correspondence and papers relating to WSC resigning from the Government and going to the Western Front, 13 Nov-24 Dec 1915
Some letters are annotated as answered by WSC.
Letters are from people that WSC knew, and some are from members of the public [not known to WSC].
Public and Political: General: Correspondence and papers relating to WSC resigning from the Government and going to Western Front [given to Martin Gilbert by CSC], 20 Nov-1 Dec 1915 and c.1962-c.1977
The letters were in an envelope (present) with a typed and handwritten list on the front of "Letters given to Martin Gilbert by Lady Spencer-Churchill". Four letters are listed, but only the letters listed in type (two) are present. [The letters must have been given to Martin Gilbert sometime between 1962 and 1977].
Public and Political: General: Correspondence H-K., 1910 - May 1934
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, McCarthy - Maze., Apr 1955 - Apr 1965
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Ti - Tu., 11 Sep 1948 - 14 Mar 1960
Public and political: part II of the final report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., 1917
Public and political: press cuttings mainly relating to the first report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., 1917
Public and political: printed copies of documents appended to WSC' statements to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., 1914 - 1917
Public and political: six copies of a letter from WSC to Sir William Pickford [later Lord Sterndale], chairman of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., 1917
Public and political: Statements by WSC to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry on the second and third phases of the operation., 1917
Remarks on the question of supplying fuller information to the Commander-in-Chief, 1916-11-08 - 1916-11-14
Report of the Emergency Relief Committee, 1918
Sixth report of the Emergency Committee for the assistance of Germans, Austrians and Hungarians in distress. May possibly relate to Else Headlam rather than JWHM.
'Royal Society and international organisations', 1917-1918
Contents of an envelope so inscribed. Includes: a printed note on membership of German Academies and Scientific Societies (1917); a printed memorandum, notices and reports concerning the Inter-Allied Conference on Scientific Organisations held at the Royal Society in Oct. 1918, together with a related letter to Bateson from David Prain; and a press cutting on the death of Admiral Sir A.H. Markham (Oct. 1918).
Royal Society: Special General Meeting re expelling foreign enemy members, July - Aug. 1918
A Special General Meeting was held on 31 July 1918 to consider the advisability of expelling enemy foreign members from the Society. The file includes a printed notice of the meeting; two letters from Thomas R.R. Stebbing to Bateson re a note in Nature which appeared to ignore the fact that the proposal was rejected at the meeting; and related notes in Bateson's hand.
Ruth Darwin: correspondence and papers
The collection consists primarily of letters from Ruth Darwin to members of her family but predominantly to her sister (Emma) Nora Darwin, and correspondence and papers arising out of Ruth's work with the British Committee of the French Red Cross in France in 1917-1919.
Salamis [Σαλαμίς, Negatives], 1916-12 - 1917-03
10 negative prints, all of ships anchored around the island of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf. On the envelope which originally housed this negatives, AJBW wrote 'Mother boat, La..?/ Men with ?/ Men / Mt Cave with us / Implacable at anchor'.
The last was the pre-Dreadnought battleship HMS Implacable. The other vessels in these images merit futher investigation in order to ascertain precise identiies.
"Scottish Soldier": the Autobiography of Major-General Douglas Wimberley
Churchill Archives Centre holds excerpts from volume one and a complete copy of volume two of the autobiography. Subjects covered include Wimberley's service in the First World War, between the wars and during the Second World War.