Western Front (1914-1918)
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 326 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: War Council., 09 Aug 1914 - 31 Dec 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/1
Scope and Contents
General Correspondence Correspondents include Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, on Yeomanry Organisation, the possible use of Russian troops on the Western Front and at Gallipoli, and his visit to the British Expeditionary Force in France; General Sir John French, (later Lord Ypres) C. in C., British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front; Herbert Asquith (later Lord Oxford and Asquith), Prime Minister, giving permission for WSC to visit Dunkirk to look into Naval matters, but...
Dates:
09 Aug 1914 - 31 Dec 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., Jan 1915 - May 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/2
Scope and Contents
General Correspondence.Correspondents include 1st Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, (3) mainly on Russia; General Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres] (9), mainly on the Western Front; General Sir Ian Hamilton (8); on the Territorial Army; Major-General William Birdwood, the 2nd London Division and the Dardanelles; F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] (2); Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], Prime Minister (2), on the War Council and the Dardanelles; David Lloyd...
Dates:
Jan 1915 - May 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., 01 Jan 1915 - 31 May 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/3
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Various papers including Report from G.O.C., Egypt on Turkish forces; Report by Gilbert Parker on opinions of Public Men in the United States concerning the War; memo by General Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres], on the strength of the BEF in France; Note by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson on ultimate terms for the peace settlement in the Middle East; Note and private telegram from the Viceroy of India on the future settlement of Eastern Turkey in Asia and Arabia; Note by WSC on German...
Dates:
01 Jan 1915 - 31 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., 01 Jan 1915 - 14 Mar 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/4
Scope and Contents
Foreign Office telegrams from Russia, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania [Romania], Italy; mainly on Esatern and Western Fronts.
Dates:
01 Jan 1915 - 14 Mar 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., 27 Jan 1915 - Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/5
Scope and Contents
War Office Prints concerning Russia including: Despatches by Colonel Alfred Knox, Military Attache, Petrograd on Armament, Operations around Lodz; the South West Front in the Eastern Theatre; Events in Northern Poland, Mar 1915.
Dates:
27 Jan 1915 - Nov 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Official: War Council, 1914-1915
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26
Scope and Contents
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
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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Personal: Clementine S Churchill: Correspondence., Dec 1915 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from CSC to WSC written while he served on the Western Front. Part A comprises original letters: part B comprises typescript transcripts prepared circa 1945.
Dates:
Dec 1915 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and political: account of the operations of the 189th infantry brigade on 28-29 Sep., 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/104
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1918
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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Public and Political: General: Correspondence and papers relating to WSC resigning from the Government and going to the Western Front, 13 Nov-24 Dec 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/4
Scope and Contents
Some letters are annotated as answered by WSC.
Letters are from people that WSC knew, and some are from members of the public [not known to WSC].
Dates:
13 Nov-24 Dec 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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Public and Political: General: Correspondence and papers relating to WSC resigning from the Government and going to Western Front [given to Martin Gilbert by CSC], 20 Nov-1 Dec 1915 and c.1962-c.1977
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/5
Scope and Contents
The letters were in an envelope (present) with a typed and handwritten list on the front of "Letters given to Martin Gilbert by Lady Spencer-Churchill". Four letters are listed, but only the letters listed in type (two) are present. [The letters must have been given to Martin Gilbert sometime between 1962 and 1977].
Dates:
20 Nov-1 Dec 1915 and c.1962-c.1977
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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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, McCarthy - Maze., Apr 1955 - Apr 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/528
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: "B" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Max Aitken]; J McDavid (or ?I McDavid) on his memories as adjutant to WSC in 1916 and of WSC as Commander of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers (7); Major Reginald Macdonald-Buchanan; Dr Robert MacKenna on gifts from WSC (3); Sir Fitzroy Maclean (4); Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on subjects including his admiration for WSC (6); [Nicholas] Robert Udal (6), Antony Acland, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, and...
Dates:
Apr 1955 - Apr 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Ti - Tu., 11 Sep 1948 - 14 Mar 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/201
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Viorel Tilea on subjects including a neutral belt in Central Europe (5); John Tilney; Wolfgang von Tirpitz on his article on WSC, and German prisoners of war at Spandau [Germany] (3); Nawab Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana (2); Kenneth Jamieson, Foreign Office, on the use of a Churchill trademark; Anthony Moir [Churchill's solicitor] on the trademark (10); Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on the trademark (5); Frederick Leishman...
Dates:
11 Sep 1948 - 14 Mar 1960
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1914-02 - 1914-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/7
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: debates in Parliament on 'the Ulster Pogrom' [moving ships to the coast of Ireland in case it became necessary to move troops to Northern Ireland]; the grief of John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone] [following the death of his wife]; a suggestion of a vacancy [? at the India Office]; Churchill's concerns about their finances; the reception of the Budget; Clementine's anxiety about Churchill's flying and the death of the pilot Gustav Hamel; the health of Jack [John S...
Dates:
1914-02 - 1914-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1915-05 - 1915-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/8
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill’s departure for Paris to take part in negotiations on Italy’s part in the war, May 1915; the Dardanelles campaign; a successful engagement by the Royal Naval Division, May 1915; Churchill’s instructions to Clementine regarding his finances and papers in the case of his death; being offered command of a brigade by Field Marshal Sir John French [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France, later 1st Lord Ypres], November 1915; the prospects of going...
Dates:
1915-05 - 1915-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1916-01 - 1916-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/9
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill’s frustration with the direction of the war; the importance of Clementine keeping up relations with David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions]; Churchill’s new battalion, the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, with ‘Archie’ [Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] as his second in command; Churchill’s disillusionment with Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; slow progress on ‘the caterpillars’ [tanks] recommended by Churchill in his...
Dates:
1916-01 - 1916-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1917-05-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/10
Scope and Contents
Letter written from Paris during Churchill's visit to the front, on subjects including: meetings with General [Marie] Emile Fayolle, Commander of the 6th Army and Philippe Pétain, General-in-Chief; the need to replace Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; the inescapable thoughts of carnage and ruin caused by the war, despite the pleasantness of Churchill's trip.
Dates:
1917-05-29
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1918-02 - 1918-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/11
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's wish to send Clementine and the children out of London, because of the risk of Zeppelin raids; visit to France for talks on munitions supplies, February 1918; returning to see his old military position at 'Plugstreet' [Ploegsteert, Belgium], the Ypres salient, Glencorse Wood and Polygon Wood; the success of Jack [John S Churchill]; a meeting with Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston; visit to headquarters in France, March 1918 [during the German Spring...
Dates:
1918-02 - 1918-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"The artillery at Passchendaele: (From Artillery Accounts)", [1926]
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/190/2
Scope and Contents
Transcript account of conditions at the [3rd Battle of Ypres, Flanders, Belgium] and the effect of wet weather and terrible mud causing great difficulties moving artillery and supplies of ammunition and locating guns; the use of tin baths to keep men dry while asleep; attacks by enemy guns on British gunners by day and by night on roads and tracks. Concludes "It was put tersely by one artillery general that if the battle was continued there would be 'no artillery for the spring offensive'"....
Dates:
[1926]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Two letters from Violet Asquith [later Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, Lady Violet Bonham Carter and Lady Violet Asquith of Yarnbury] (10 Downing Street, Whitehall, [London]) to WSC, 13-16 Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/2/2-4
Scope and Contents
Subjects are WSC leaving the Government and going to France [with the Army], congratulating him on a speech ["Resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty" in the House of Commons, 15 Nov 1915], and asking if he needs any supplies for the "front".
Dates:
13-16 Nov 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), 24 Sep 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/154-155
Scope and Contents
Minute from Major-General Sir George Aston, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, reporting on the activities of the Naval Division in Belgium and France. [Carbon].
Dates:
24 Sep 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 28 Sep 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/159-162
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Ollivant (Dunkirk [France]) to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, reporting on the activities of the Royal Naval Division in France and Belgium. [Carbon].
Dates:
28 Sep 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 10 Oct 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/166-169
Scope and Contents
Admiralty statement on the work of the Royal Naval Division in the defence of Antwerp [Belgium]. [Carbon].
Dates:
10 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/34/2
Scope and Contents
Map of the Western Front, with forts and defences marked: scale 1:70,000.
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/34/3
Scope and Contents
Map of the area surrounding Antwerp [Belgium], showing Allied defences, scale 1:40,000.
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 20 Sep 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/36/4
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Admiralty to Major-General Sir George Aston, [Royal Naval Division] (Dunkirk [France]), reporting large enemy cavalry forces within 60 miles, and urging caution in using British Yeomanry cavalry as they were deficient in equipment. [Carbon].
Dates:
20 Sep 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open