Military operations
Found in 336 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 06 Oct 1899
Letter from WSC (35A Great Cumberland Place [London]) to [3rd] Lord Chesham asking him to forward his application for a commission in the Royal Buckinghamshire H[ussa]rs, enclosing certificates [not present] and requesting that War Office reports about him should be considered in the absence of a certificate of moral character.
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1899
Letter from WSC (35A Great Cumberland Place [London]) to [3rd] Lord Chesham asking him to sanction his application [see CHAR 28/26/37] to join [the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars] and to hasten his appointment if possible.
(Untitled), 30 Oct [1899]
Letter from WSC (Cape Town, South Africa) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he outlines the words which he will use in telegrams to convey the progress [of the Boer War] and requests that his application to be a Yeomanry Officer should be forwarded and his letter to Lord Chesham [see CHAR 28/26/37-38] destroyed.
(Untitled), 31 Oct [1899]
Telegram from WSC (Cape Town [South Africa]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] requesting that his application to be a Yeomanry Officer should be forwarded to Captain Kikpatrick.
(Untitled), 06 Jan [1900]
(Untitled), 01 May 1900
(Untitled), 16 Jan 1901
Letter from WSC (Chicago [United States] on the notepaper of 105 Mount Street) to George [Cornwallis-West] expressing pleasure at the news that George is to leave the army and describing the disadvantages of a career in the army. He comments on the lack of success of his lecture tour from which he has made o1,600 and on the fact that "Jack" [John S Churchill] is to continue living at 35A [Great Cumberland Place, London].
(Untitled), 24 Feb 1895
Letter from "Jack" [John] S Churchill (Reverend J E C Welldon's, Harrow on the Hill [Middlesex]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses his clothes, asks about her apartment, says that he has been unwell and that WSC has to work hard [at Aldershot].
(Untitled), 07 Mar 1895
Letter from "Jack" [John] S Churchill (Reverend J E C Welldon's, Harrow on the Hill [Middlesex]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] asking her whether she will buy him a bicycle and observing that WSC "seems to be in the very height of his pleasure at Aldershot".
(Untitled), 17 Mar 1895
Letter from "Jack" [John] S Churchill (Reverend J E C Welldon's, Harrow on the Hill [Middlesex]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses arrangements for his holiday; reports that there is to be a memorial for [6th] Lord Bessborough; describes a paper chase; says that he intends to join the Cyclist Corps and that WSC has been put in charge of a squadron.