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First World War (1914-1918)

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1497 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/15-16
Scope and Contents Letter from Vittoria [Duchess of Sermoneta] to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: discussion of the outbreak of the First World War; Italian neutrality and hostility towards Austria; feelings of relief at the death of the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] experienced by the Italian nobility; the recall of the Austrian Ambassador in Italy who had refused to receive her family; problems faced by her friends who had to return to Italy after the declaration of war and the departure of [Count Albert]...
Dates: 29 Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 17 Sep [1914]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/17
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Letter from Hugh Warrender (Serge Hill, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he gives her an address for Eleanor Warrender], discusses the likelihood that he will be gazetted to a battalion, describes his billet, and [General] Ian Hamilton's announcement that they will go to the [Western] Front.

Dates: 17 Sep [1914]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/18-19
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Letter from Hugh Warrender (H M S King George V, c/o G P O London) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he comments on her talent for decorating houses, discusses the positions which Germans have occupied in society, German naval strategy, the position of Italy, and his resentment at George [Cornwallis] West being given a position . Envelope present marked "Passed Ship Censor".

Dates: 17 Sep 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 05 Oct 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/20
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Letter from "Montie" [Montagu Porch](Tati river east of Takum, near Anglo Saxon Boundary, Muri Province, Nigeria) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he discusses his appointment as Intelligence Officer, fighting at Takum, the casualties, his responsibilities and the bravery of the native troops.

Dates: 05 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/24
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Newspaper cutting from the Northern Standard which describes memorial services in Glaslough [County Monaghan, Ireland] and in London for Norman Leslie and which includes an excerpt from his last letter to Shane Leslie describing his life in the trenches.

Dates: 07 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 03 Dec 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/26
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Letter from "Winnie" [Winifred, Duchess of Portland](43 Avenue Henri Martin [Paris, France]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she describes her impressions of wartime Boulogne, Dunquerque and Paris. She comments on the open theatres and restaurants and the optimistic mood in Paris and says that she enjoyed discussing the war situation with her and receiving news from [WSC from] the Admiralty.

Dates: 03 Dec 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 28 Dec 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/33-34
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Letter from Oswald [Frewen](H M S Lookout, Third Flotilla) to Auntie Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] thanking her for a thermos and describing Christmas day including the vivid impression made by anti aircraft fire and the approach of a zeppelin and the "heroics" of his engineer.

Dates: 28 Dec 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1914]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/84/36
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Letter from an unidentified correspondent (Serge Hill, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] commenting on the birth of [Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and asking her to use her influence with WSC at the Admiralty to recall an unidentified man and to ask questions abut the war situation.

Dates: [1914]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/86A/4
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Photograph of nurses being presented with medals at Bourbourg [France].

Dates: 06 Aug 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 05 Jan 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/97/10-12
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of a letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] agreeing with Colonel [Maurice] Hankey's comments on "special mechanical devices for taking trenches"; describing the impact of trench warfare on military theory and weapons; urging the deployment of steam tractors equipped with armoured shelters, trials of "shields on wheels", systematic use of artificial smoke, and stressing the importance of swift development and production of new weapons. Unsigned annotated with...
Dates: 05 Jan 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/120/3-4
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Letter from WSC ([France]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he thanks her for money, discusses his relationship with the Grenadiers, conditions [on the Western Front], the return of "K" [Lord Kitchener] and his opinion of the Government. Envelope present.

Dates: 01 Dec 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/120/5-6
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Letter from WSC (General Headquarters, British Army in the Field [France]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he describes his time with the army as "pleasant & peaceful", reports that he has inspected trenches at Nieuwpoort and Ostende [Belgium] and visited the battlefield at Carency [France] and that he is relieved that he is not associated with the present actions of the Government. Envelope present.

Dates: 08 Dec 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jan 1916 [23 Feb 1916]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/120/9-10
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Letter from WSC (6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in the Field [France]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he is looking forward to returning home and discusses the effect of the cold weather on fighting in the trenches. Envelope present. Note that although the letter is dated 23 January 1916, context suggests it is 23 February 1916.

Dates: 23 Jan 1916 [23 Feb 1916]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Apr 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/120/11-12
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Letter from WSC (6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in the Field [France]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses his decision to return from France, says that he enjoys being in the trenches and intends to speak to Arthur Balfour. Envelope present.

Dates: 04 Apr 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/1
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Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill]([France]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he describes his work arranging the billeting of troops, comments on the unpleasantness of the town, and describes the problems posed by frostbite in the trenches.

Dates: 01 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/2
Scope and Contents Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](General Headquarters [France]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he comments on the arrival of troops and the good example set by Lord Richard Cavendish by serving as a Colonel of a regiment; discusses casualties in the trenches and the jealousies among the staff and reports that "Goonie" [Gwendeline Churchill formerly Gwendeline Bertie] will have to meet the people in whose house he has been staying. He encloses a poem [see CHAR 28/121/3]....
Dates: 24 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jan 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/3
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Song by Roger de Chateleux entitled "Souvenir de la Campagne 1914 - ?" which satirises the behaviour of the British troops in France. Printed. Covering letter at CHAR 28/121/2.

Dates: 01 Jan 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Apr 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/7-8
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Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](G H Q Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he details the numbers of ships waiting at the Dardanelles, reports that landing should be imminent and on damage to the "Ocean" and "Irresistible" and the sinking of the "Bouvet" and asks whether Peregrine [Churchill] has begun to speak. Envelope present.

Dates: 20 Apr 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Jun 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/9-10
Scope and Contents Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](G H Q Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he comments on confusion about the future of the Dardanelles expedition, relief at the resignation of [Lord] Fisher and on political affairs; discusses domestic arrangement for "Goonie" [Gwendeline Churchill earlier Gwendeline Bertie], the results of the elections in Greece which should mean that Greece will support Britain and the difficulty of obtaining reliable...
Dates: 20 Jun 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jul [1915]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/11-12
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Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](G H Q Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses the determination of the Turkish forces; says that he has seen Hugh Frewen and that he regrets that he has not seen Peregrine [Churchill] for a long time; comments on the unpleasant conditions for the troops in Egypt and the high morale of the troops at the Dardanelles expedition; and anticipates victory at the cost of large casualties. Envelope present.

Dates: 29 Jul [1915]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Oct [1915]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/13-16
Scope and Contents Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](G H Q Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses his work arranging winter quarters for the troops; comments on the likelihood of Bulgaria and Romania joining Britain; discusses Greek politics, the failure of British diplomacy in the Balkans and the likelihood of success of the Dardanelles Expedition; encloses a photograph of General Sir Ian [Hamilton] awarding medals with himself in the background [CHAR...
Dates: 07 Oct [1915]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Oct 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/18-21
Scope and Contents Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: the departure of General Sir Ian Hamilton; refutation of criticisms about Hamilton's failure to visit the peninsula [at Gallipoli], hold reviews of troops, the unfairness of comparisons between Hamilton and [Lord] French [later 1st Lord Ypres]; the unpopularity of [Major-General Walter] Braithwaite [Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary...
Dates: 22 Oct 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jan 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/23-24
Scope and Contents Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he informs her that the Dardanelles expedition has come to an end and that he has been sent to Egypt and awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. He comments on dispatches from General Sir Ian Hamilton about the Dardanelles expedition "if you read between the lines you can see that everything he asked for was nearly always refused because it could...
Dates: 15 Jan 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jan 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/25-26
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Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill] (ANZAC [Cairo, Egypt]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he is likely to remain with [General Sir William] Birdwood if Birdwood is given Australian forces; describes the unpleasantness of travelling in a troop ship; and expresses concern about "Goonie's" [Gwendeline Churchill earlier Gwendeline Bertie] financial worries. Envelope present.

Dates: 25 Jan 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/27-29
Scope and Contents Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill] (ANZAC Headquarters [Cairo, Egypt]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses his hopes to be appointed to the Australian forces under [General Sir William] Birdwood; comments on confusion about the authority of commanders, [Lieutenant Colonel Sir John] Murray and [Colonel Sir John] Maxwell; discusses the behaviour of women in Cairo who "spend their time hindering hospitals and running about with everybody but their husbands"; reports...
Dates: 31 Jan 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open