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First World War (1914-1918)

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1510 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 16 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/107
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Telegram from Admiralty to Admiral Superintendent, Malta, requesting proposals for closing down enemy submarine bases [typescript.

Dates: 16 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/108
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Admiralty Chief Censor's Intercepted Message from [?James] Bourchier, Sofia to "The Times", London [typescript copy].

Dates: 16 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/114
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Telegram from French Ministry of Marine to Admiralty, reporting that three German steamships, which had been a Genoa since the outbreak of war, were getting ready for sea. Stating that the ships were not armed, but could mount light guns once out at sea [typescript copy].

Dates: 18 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/115
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Telegram from French Ministry of Marine to French Naval Attacht, Admiralty, London, on anti-submarine operations in the Mediterranean [typescript copy].

Dates: 19 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/116
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Admiralty Chief Censor's intercepted message from Chiesi, 16 Park Hill Rise, Croydon to Secolo, Corso Porta Nuova, Milan, Italy, on reports that Italy had signed the London Convention of 4 Sept 1914, engaging the Allies not to conclude a separate peace with Germany or Austria [typescript copy].

Dates: 19 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/117
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Admiralty Chief Censor's intercepted message from [George] Adam, [Paris correspondent to the Times] (Presse, Paris [France]) to "The Times", London, on Italian declaration of War on Germany. [typescript copy].

Dates: 20 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/118
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Admiralty Chief Censor's intercepted message from Glarnar, Paris to Exchange Telegraph Co., London, on rumour that Greece and Bulgaria intended to conclude a separate alliance with the object of marching on Costantinople [Istanbul], leaving Romania free to attack Austria [typescript copy].

Dates: 21 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/119
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Telegram from Admiralty to Admiral Superintendent, Malta, on allied Naval co-operation in the Mediterranean [typescript copy].

Dates: 22 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/120
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Telegram from Admiralty to Intelligence Officer, Malta, report from Russian Consul General at Salonica that hostile submarines were based on Cerigo Island, and the desert coast of one of the Ionian Islands. Stating that the Russian Government felt that these rumours were spread by German agents with a view to diverting a portion of the Allied Fleet [typescript copy].

Dates: 24 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/122
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Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the French Ministry of Marine, on German submarine activity in the Mediterranean [typescript copy].

Dates: 24 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/123
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Telegram from Admiralty to Admiral Sir Douglas Gamble, on need to stress to C. in C., Italian Fleet the importance of maintaining effective watch in the Straits of Otranto [typescript copy].

Dates: 24 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/124
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Telegram from Admiralty to All Stations reporting State of War between Italy and Austria and Italy and Germany [typescript copy].

Dates: 24 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/125
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Telegram from Admiral Sir Douglas Gamble to Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, reporting satisfactory interview with Italian Minister of Marine and the Duke of Abruzzi [typescript copy].

Dates: 24 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/126
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Telegram from French Ministry of Marine, Paris to Admiralty, on use of mid-European time and the Greenwich longitude for communication between Allied Fleets in the Mediterranean [typescript copy].

Dates: 26 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/127
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Telegram from Sir Rennell Rodd [later 1st Lord Rennell], British Ambassador, Italy, to Foreign Office, announcing blockade of the Austro-Hungarian coast from the Italian frontier to the Montenegrin frontier, and of the Albanian coast from the Montenegrin frontier to Cape Kiephali [typescript copy].

Dates: 27 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/128
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Telegram from Admiralty to French Ministry of Marine, on German use of Smyrna as a submarine base [typescript copy].

Dates: 28 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/129
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Telegram from Sir Rennell Rodd [later 1st Lord Rennell], British Ambassador, Italy, to Admiralty on Italian naval losses [typescript copy].

Dates: 29 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/66/130
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Telegram from Vice Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles to Admiralty, on german submarine menace in the Aegean Sea [typescript copy].

Dates: 29 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/39-40
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Minute from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Director of Transports, Admiralty, Graeme Thomson, on arrangements for transport of the Royal Naval Division to the Dardanelles [typescript, annotated "Secret, please return" and initialled by WSC].

Dates: 20 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/50
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Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Vice-Admirla Sackville Carden, on naval operation to force the Dardanelles without military assistance, diving details of the troops which were on their way to the area, under the command of General Birdwood.

Dates: 24 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/52
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Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden, asking for details of strength and composition of Turkish troops on the Gallipoli peninsula, and his views on aid which could be given by a military force [annotated "not sent"].

Dates: 24 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/53-54
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Telegram from Admiral Sir Henry Jackson Admiralty to Vice-Admiral Sackvile Carden, on the employment of military forces in the Dardanelles.

Dates: 24 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/55
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Telegram from Lt-Gen Sir John Maxwell to Vice-Admiral Sackvile Carden, on the employment of military forces in the Dardanelles.

Dates: 23 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/58-60
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Minute from Julain Corbett to Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, on proposed landing at the Bulair neck of the Gallipoli Peninsula, comparing it to Japanese operations against Nan-shan, the neck of the Kwang- tung Peninsula in 1904 [carbon].

Dates: 01 Mar 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/54/61
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Telegram from Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Office to Sir Francis Elliot, British Minister, Athens, on the need for Greece to give naval as well as military aid in the Dardanelles [draft by WSC, sent by him to Asquith, who forwarded it to Grey, initialled by WSC].

Dates: 01 Mar 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open