Military operations
Found in 328 Collections and/or Records:
Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, C-D. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, R., Jan 1943 - Dec 1943
Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, S., Dec 1942 - Dec 1943
Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, T-Z., Jan 1942 - Dec 1943
Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings, 1899 - 1960
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many on WSC's health, his travels abroad, and offering support for his leadership. [please note that most of the file dates from 1943]., Mar 1941 - Aug 1947
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, C-D., Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, H-K. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov [1941] - Dec 1943
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, M-Q., Jan 1943 - Dec 1943
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence H., 20 Dec 1945 - 16 Dec 1948
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, McCarthy - Maze., Apr 1955 - Apr 1965
"The Few", 20 Aug 1940
"The grit and stamina of London", 14 Jul 1941
Notes for WSC's speech (County Hall, London) on: civil defence forces in London and Civil Defence Review [in Hyde Park]; conditions in London; the German bombing of London; the prospects for the future; improvements to defence and shelters; and British bombing of Germany.Typescript laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in black ink and red crayon by WSC, and with pencil notes of changes suggested by Herbert Morrison [Home Secretary].
The Gulf War: general correspondence, 1990 - 1991-04
Correspondence with the general public, particularly relating to an article and letter by JEP for the Daily Telegraph (Jan 1991 and Aug 1990) , with correspondents including: James Busvine.
Also includes: draft text of an unpublished article by JEP for the Daily Mail (Aug 1990).
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1931
Letter from Colonel Stuart Graham (Bangalore, India) to WSC, expressing pleasure at reading "My Early Life", and reminiscing about his own service, particularly in India, and on present day conditions in India, suggesting that Mohandas Gandhi and his supporters should be deported to "some out of the way spot like St Helena" and not allowed any communication with India; includes visiting card.
(Untitled), 11 Feb 1899
Cutting from Army and Navy Gazette, letter from WSC, replying to letter from "A General Officer" criticising his activities as a journalist while a serving soldier.
(Untitled), 06 Jan 1916
Letter from CSC to WSC, congratulations on promotion to command the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, and on WSC's present of a silver cigar box to the Headquarters Staff at XXXIII Corps, advising him not to use "gruesome picture of the Blucher turning turtle", but to give a plain box with an inscription Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/16-17.
(Untitled), 25 Mar [1916]
Letter from CSC to WSC, on his decision to leave the army. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/114.
(Untitled), [c 1912]
Account by WSC of his escape from the Boers [typescript with ms amendments by WSC, on Admiralty notepaper, probably drafted in connection with a libel action against William Blackwood & Sons, heard on 20 May 1912].
(Untitled), 30 Dec 1901
WSC's Commission as Captain in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
(Untitled), 09 Apr 1905
Letter from Lt-Colonel Sir Robert Hermon Hodge (later Lord Wyfold), Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, to WSC, on WSC's promotion [to Major] and his appointment to command the Henley Squadron of the Regiment.
(Untitled), 02 Feb 1906
Letter from Colonel Sir Robert Hermon-Hodge, (later Lord Wyfold), Oxfordshire Hussars, to WSC, declining invitation to attend Henley Squadron Ball, and offering congratulations on WSC's success with the Squadron.
(Untitled), 05 Dec 1906
Letter from WSC to The Adjutant, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, on his course of instruction to become qualified for field rank, asking for special consideration on account of his parliamentary and ministerial duties [copy].
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1945
Hansard report of WSC's speech on the War Situation: subjects covered include fighting in the Ardennes, the Soviet advance in Germany, the campaign in Burma [later Myanmar] and particularly the Civil War in Greece. Annotated in blue crayon.
(Untitled), 30 May 1907
Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton, Tidworth House, Andover, to WSC, congratulations on performance of the Henley Squadron, Oxfordshire Hussars.