Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the Japanese threat to the Falkland Islands; discussion of operation "Ironclad" [code name for British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; the British naval...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence].Subjects covered by the minutes include: aircraft production; bombing policy; operation "Ironclad" in Madagascar; the availability of ammunition for the Home Guard; naval operations in the Indian Ocean;...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, June 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the minutes include: discussion of proposed operations against Germany in northern Norway ("Jupiter"), Spitsbergen ("Jackpot") and France...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel John Bevan [Head of the London Controlling Section]; Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Moore [Vice Chief of the Naval Staff]; Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris [Commander in Chief Bomber...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Director of Movements [War Office, General Noel Holmes]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...

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Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin, to WSC on modifications to the Empire Air Training Scheme; asks about strength of force in South Western Pacific.

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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including a tank encounter to the south of Agedabia [Ajdabiyah, Libya], the accuracy of RAF bombing and the movement of enemy ships from Ras el Aali.

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Telegrams from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including: activity in Agedabia [Ajdabiyah, Libya]; RAF bombing of Ras Aali; prisoner-of-war figures; fighter planes over Agedabia; news from Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie [Commander of 8th Army] on the Allied capture of Bardia, and release of British prisoners-of-war.

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Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], reporting a concentration of heavy German ships in the Weser and the Elbe, and a dispersal of their submarines to hunt in the Shetlands and the English Channel. The Admiralty suggests that the time was right for an aerial attack on the Zeppelin sheds at Cuxhaven [Germany]. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on plans for the seaplane attack on German Zeppelin sheds. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to 'Commodore T' [Reginald Tyrwhitt, Commander of Destroyer Flotillas, First Fleet], on providing support for a seaplane attack on German Zeppelin sheds. [Carbon].

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Letter from Commander Charles Samson (Royal Navy Flying School, Eastchurch [Kent]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the possibility of aircraft being sent to France to co-operate with the army, asking to be given the chance to go in command.

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Letter from William Cowan to the Director of the Air Department, Admiralty, [Captain Murray Sueter], on arranging an inspection of the Scott aero engine works. Includes note from Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] on arranging the inspection.

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Minute by R M Groves, Air Division, Admiralty, on the Scott aero engine, stating that the engine needed a great deal of development work, and there was no reason for the Admiralty to support it.

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Letter from William Cowan to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the Scott aero engine, stating that the engine was ready for inspection by an officer of the Admiralty Air Division.

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Telegram from Vice-Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles, to Admiralty, reporting unsuccessful German air attack on HMS "Ark Royal" [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Vice-Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, report of work of the Naval Air Service, praising the work of Commander Charles Samson, and requesting that more aircraft be sent out [typescript copy].

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Letter, annotated, from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] on the removal from office of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command]. [Carbon].

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Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] on an investigation into the production of stabilized bombsights. [Carbon].

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Letter, annotated, from WSC to 1st Lord Simon [Lord Chancellor] asking to borrow Sir John Singleton [Lord Justice Singleton] for an inquiry into the production of stabilized bombsights.

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Letter from WSC to Lieutenant-Colonel John Moore-Brabazon [later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara] regretting that he did not wish to be considered for the position of civil head of the Fleet Air Arm which WSC was proposing to introduce. [carbon].

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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain suggesting [1st] Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran] for the post of Additional Civil Lord overseeing the Fleet Air Arm and [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] to take over Lloyd's position as Chairman of the British Council. [carbon].

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Letter from [Vice-]Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay to WSC refusing a verbal offer of an appointment and commenting on the Fleet Air Arm.