Western Front (1914-1918)
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Official: Munitions., 10 Aug 1918 - 23 Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/38
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War Office Weekly Tank Notes Including accounts of tank actions and operations; drawings of British tanks; extracts from the foreign press on tank operations; notes on German anti-tank measures; notes o the relation between tanks and cavalry; notes on the interrogation of a German tank corporal; notes on co-operation between tanks and aeroplanes; notes on German anti-tank land mines; and the development of Gas and is influence on tank warfare. With Survey of Tank Corps Operations, 8 Aug - 7...
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10 Aug 1918 - 23 Nov 1918
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Official: Munitions., Sep 1917 - Oct 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/156
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WSC's Registered Correspondence as Minister of Munitions, Nos 201-400.Correspondents include: Sir James Stevenson; Lord Swaythling on scrap iron in the Netherlands; Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions (2); General Sir Francis Bingham; Charles Hobhouse on shortage of field guns; Lord Northcliffe (5); Lord Derby, War Office (5); Sir Joseph Maclay, Ministry of Shipping (4); Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service; Dundee Chamber of Commerce and others on the telephone service...
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Sep 1917 - Oct 1917
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Official: Munitions., Oct 1917 - Nov 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/157A-C
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WSC's Registered Correspondence as Minister of Munitions, Nos. 401-600 Correspondents include: Lord Derby, War Office (9); Edwin Montagu, India Office; H W Massingham, The Nation; Louis Loucheur, French Minister of Munitions; Sir Herbert Hambling, Finance Member of the Ministry of Munitions Council; Sir Joseph Maclay, Ministry of Shipping; Sir Boverton Redwood, on the organisation of the Chemical Warfare Department; Sir Alfred Mond [later Lord Melchett], Office of Works (4); Sir Stephenson...
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Oct 1917 - Nov 1917
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Official: Munitions., Nov 1917 - Dec 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/158
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WSC's Registered Correspondence as Minister of Munitions, Nos. 601-743 Correspondents include: Wedgwood Benn (later Lord Stansgate); Major-General Sir William Furse; Lord Robert Cecil (later Lord Cecil of Chelwood), Foreign Office; Walter Long Colonial Office (3); Sir Abe Bailey; Lord Killanin, complaining about treatment by the Priority Dept., Ministry of Munitions; Lady St Aldwyn, on the death of her husband and son; Louis Loucheur, French Minister of Munitions (2); Lord Cowdray on his...
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Nov 1917 - Dec 1917
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Official: Munitions., Apr 1918 - May 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/162A-B
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WSC's Registered Correspondence as Minister of Munitions, Nos 301-400 Correspondents include: Major-General Noel Birch; Sir Abe Bailey; Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig; Lord Derby, War Office; Sir Frederick Black, British War Mission to the United States; Lord Rhondda. Ministry of Food; Lord Stamfordham, PS to King George V (2); Lord Robert Cecil (later Lord Cecil of Chelwood), Foreign Office; Lord Northcliffe (2); Cecil Harmsworth; Colonel Albert Stern; Sir William Weir; Vice Admiral Charles...
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Apr 1918 - May 1918
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Official: Munitions., 01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/58
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A (Air) Various papers including Report on output of aircraft with a view to increased offensive against German Towns by Major-General Hugh Trenchard; note by Lord Rothermere of conversation with Major-General Robert Brooke-Popham on the desirability of reducing the number of engine types in use in service aircraft; memorandum by Major-General Sefton Brancker [Controller-General of Equipment and Master-General of Personnel on the Air Council] on the requirements of the Air Force in...
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01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918
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Official: Munitions., Jun 1917 - Nov 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/85
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E (Engineering) Mechanical warfare - various papers on tanks, including programme for demonstration of experimental tanks; letter from Lord Robert Cecil [later Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on the problems of the Tank Corps in France.
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Jun 1917 - Nov 1917
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Official: Munitions., Sep 1917 - 31 May 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/86A-B
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E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare Department - various papers, mainly on tanks including memo by Sir Tennyson d'Eyncourt; Intelligence reports on German tanks; papers on tank production; papers of Munitions Council Committee on Tanks, Sep 1917.
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Sep 1917 - 31 May 1918
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Official: Munitions., 08 Aug 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/93
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E (Engineering) Memorandum on the Tactical Employment of Tanks by Sir Albert Stern, Director General, Mechanical Warfare Supply, Ministry of Munitions [typescript].
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08 Aug 1918
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Official: Munitions., Oct 1917 - 30 Sep 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/94
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E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department - papers on the Anglo-American Tank Agreement and erection of Factory at Chateauroux, France.
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Oct 1917 - 30 Sep 1918
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Official: Munitions., 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/127
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P (Projectiles) Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.
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1918
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Official: Munitions., 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/128
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P (Projectiles) Appendix to Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.
Dates:
1918
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Official: Munitions., Apr 1917 - Dec 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/131
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R (Requirements and Statistics) Papers on the guns and ammunition programme for 1918, including memorandum on the War Office requirements; memorandum on the Artillery Position on the Western front for the French and British Armies, Apr-Aug 1917; comparison of Allied and German Artillery.
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Apr 1917 - Dec 1917
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Official: Munitions., Jan 1918 - Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/132
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R (Requirements and Statistics) Papers on Guns and Ammunition including copy of the Gun Ammunition Programme for 1918; letter from William Page to the War Office on the effect of strikes on gun output; report on state of wear of guns in the field; tables of expenditure and stocks of gun ammunition in France; memorandum by William Page on efforts to achieve greater efficiency with Artillery.
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Jan 1918 - Dec 1918
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Official: Munitions., Jul 1917 - Dec 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/133
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R (Requirements and Statistics) Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics - weekly reports of expenditure and stocks of gun ammunition in France.
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Jul 1917 - Dec 1917
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Official: Munitions., Jan 1918 - Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/134
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R (Requirements and Statistics) Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics weekly reports of expenditure and stocks of guns and ammunition in France.
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Jan 1918 - Nov 1918
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Official: Prime Minister: Maps., Sep 1944 - Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/239
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Includes maps of the Western and Italian fronts and a map of Southern Greece.
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Sep 1944 - Jan 1945
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Official: War Cabinet: Correspondence., 18 Jan 1918 - 03 Oct 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/32
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Correspondents include: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, on munitions requirements for the Admiralty (1); Sir Eric Geddes [First Lord of the Admiralty] on munitions; Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on a ministry of supply; and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders] (2).Also includes copy letters from WSC to the individuals mentioned above including 12 letters to Lloyd George about his...
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18 Jan 1918 - 03 Oct 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: Supreme War Council and Allied Conversations., 01 Dec 1917 - 03 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/53
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Includes minutes of meetings of the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]. French representatives include [Georges] Clemenceau [Prime Minister of France], General [Ferdinand] Foch, Chief of Staff, Major-General [Maxime] Weygand. British representatives include David Lloyd George [Prime Minister], Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary], Sir Eric Geddes [First Lord of the Admiralty], [1st] Lord Milner, General Sir William Robertson [Chief of Imperial General Staff until 1918], General Sir...
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01 Dec 1917 - 03 Dec 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 03 Apr 1917 - 27 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/2
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a War Cabinet paper on airship construction policy; Jan Smuts [South African Representative on the Imperial War Cabinet] on air preparations and offensives; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on airship construction; Sir Edward Carson [First Lord of the Admiralty], Sir Albert Stanley [later 1st Lord Ashfield] President of the Board of Trade, and Ernest Pollock on the proposed economic offensive against Germany;...
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03 Apr 1917 - 27 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 03 Jan 1918 - 18 Feb 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/33
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Papers by various individuals including: General Jan Smuts on the dissolution of the war organisation committee; [17th] Lord Derby [earlier Edward Stanley] Secretary of State for War, on gun ammunition and salvage; [1st ] Lord Rhondda [earlier David Thomas] Food Controller, recommending a National Salvage Board; Colonel [Lancelot] Storr on the extension of the British front in France; Rowland Prothero [later 1st Lord Ernle] President of the Board of Agriculture, Christopher Addison [Minister...
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03 Jan 1918 - 18 Feb 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 07 May 1918 - 30 May 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/37
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Papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Imperial War Cabinet, on the extension of the British line in France; [Lieutenant-General George Bridges] British military representative in the United States, on the transportation of American troops; Sir William Weir, Secretary of State for Air, on the policy of the Air Ministry and the long-range bombing of Germany; Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on the...
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07 May 1918 - 30 May 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 07 Jul 1918 - 25 Jul 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/38
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Includes papers by various individuals on military policy including: WSC, Minister of Munitions, on German colonies and on war strategy; William Robinson, Permanent Secretary, Air Ministry, on using Indian army personnel with the RAF in Egypt; General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of Imperial General Staff, on plans for the offensive in 1919 in all theatres of the war with details of forces and munitions required.Also includes copies of letters to WSC from Bertram Cubitt and Major-General Charles...
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07 Jul 1918 - 25 Jul 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/39A-B
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Includes correspondence and papers by various individuals including: Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on manpower; Colonel Richard Steel and Major-General Percy Radcliffe on allied and enemy manpower and rifle strengths; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the murder of Captain Cromie at Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg, Russia]; the award of the 1914 star and the Gallipoli star, horse-racing, the French ministry of national reconstitution, and...
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01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
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Series
Official: War Council, 1914-1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26
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The War Council was established in November 1914 to direct the overall conduct of the War. This class contains all of WSC's correspondence and papers relating to the discharge of this responsibility except those relating to the Admiralty and certain other specific bodies such as the Cabinet and its various committees. The two correspondence files (26/1 and 26/2) contain valuable correspondence with Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War and General Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres],...
Dates:
1914-1915
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