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Found in 512 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/24
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Typescript testimonial by WSC for Major Maurice Ashley marked "confidential" [carbon].

Dates: Jun 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office Correspondence, A - BA.
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(Untitled), Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195A/25
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Typescript testimonial by WSC for Major Maurice Ashley marked "confidential" [carbon].

Dates: Jun 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office Correspondence, A - BA.
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(Untitled), 20 Jan 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/81-82
Scope and Contents Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Wise [Conservative MP for Smethwick, Staffordshire] (75 Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells [Kent]) to WSC referring to their conversation in the lobby [of the House of Commons] the previous day and expressing his desire "to get back to an active part in the battle before the war is finished". He comments on his experience, his previous commanders, and the capacity in which he might serve. [Typescript copy] With letter "B" appended at top of first page, and...
Dates: 20 Jan 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence T - Y.
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/96-97
Scope and Contents Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Wise [Conservative MP for Smethwick, Staffordshire] to WSC explaining that after his previous correspondence with WSC he had been selected for the post of GSO, Direction and Plans PW at SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force], that initially he had been told that he was waiting for his predecessor to be released, but that yesterday he had telephoned again and been told that the release of his predecessor had been turned down about a week...
Dates: 23 Mar 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence T - Y.
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/98-99
Scope and Contents Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Wise [Conservative MP for Smethwick, Staffordshire] to WSC explaining that after his previous correspondence with WSC he had been selected for the post of GSO, Direction and Plans PW at SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force], that initially he had been told that he was waiting for his predecessor to be released, but that yesterday he had telephoned again and been told that the release of his predecessor had been turned down about a week...
Dates: 23 Mar 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence T - Y.
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/100
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Copy of minute from WSC to General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]: "This matter is to be put through as I myself directed and as you told me was arranged. Please report at once. I will not be treated with this discourtesy". With a note that a copy of the letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Wise [Conservative MP for Smethwick, Staffordshire] has been sent with WSC's original minute.

Dates: 26 Mar 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence T - Y.
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/101-103
Scope and Contents Letter from General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] to WSC marked "confidential" commenting on the "misunderstanding" with reference to WSC's note on the latest letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Wise [Conservative MP for Smethwick, Staffordshire]. He states that WSC's original directions gave no indication that he wished Wise to be given an appointment in the field at all costs, and denies that he told WSC "all was arranged". He refers to previous...
Dates: 27 Mar 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence T - Y.
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(Untitled), 29 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/104-105
Scope and Contents Minute from WSC to General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] stating that he does not think Ismay's file of correspondence about Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Wise [Conservative MP for Smethwick, Staffordshire] is complete as Ismay had informed WSC and Wise of an appointment he was to have in connection with German prisoners. He refers to the delays and eventual cancellation and states, "I do not like being put in the position with Members of Parliament that I tell...
Dates: 29 Mar 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence T - Y.
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(Untitled), 24 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/226
Scope and Contents Letter from Lord Robert Innes-Ker (Croft Hall Hotel, Croft Hall, Torquay [Devon]) to WSC enclosing a letter he has received from the Foreign Office [see CHAR 20/197B/225] and asking WSC to help him further his claim to a Consulship or Vice-Consulship in the south of France or North Africa. He comments on his official duties during the war, and expresses preference for Cannes [France], Nice [France], Monte Carlo or Mentone [France] as "after many years in charge of the Social Bureaux of The...
Dates: 24 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence D - K.
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(Untitled), 24 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/227
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of letter from Lord Robert Innes-Ker (Croft Hall Hotel, Croft Hall, Torquay [Devon]) to WSC enclosing a letter he has received from the Foreign Office [see CHAR 20/197B/225] and asking WSC to help him further his claim to a Consulship or Vice-Consulship in the south of France or North Africa. He comments on his official duties during the war, and expresses preference for Cannes [France], Nice [France], Monte Carlo or Mentone [France] as "after many years in charge of the...
Dates: 24 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence D - K.
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(Untitled), 28 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/228
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Typescript note by John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to CSC asking if he can have a word with her about the attached letter from Lord Robert Innes-Ker [see CHAR 20/197B/226], whom he had seen the other day and understands to be a cousin of WSC.

Dates: 28 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence D - K.
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/229
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Letter from John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Roderick Barclay (Foreign Office) marked "private and personal" enclosing a copy of a letter that has been sent to Lord Robert Innes-Ker [see CHAR 20/197B/230], who had applied for a Vice-Consulate in the South of France, and stating that, "Lord Robert is 59 and has a 'past'. Nobody who knows him, would, for a moment, consider him suitable for any such employment". [carbon].

Dates: 03 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence D - K.
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/230
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Letter from Anthony Bevir [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Lord Robert Innes-Ker, acknowledging his letter to WSC of 24 May applying for a Vice-Consulate in the South of France, and explaining that this is not a matter in which WSC could intervene. [carbon].

Dates: 03 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence D - K.
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(Untitled), 30 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/4-5
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Confidential note from James Stuart [Chief Whip] to WSC giving a list of names of those involved in the Conservative Party for inclusion in WSC's honours list including: [1st] Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick Penny], Colonel Harold Mitchell and Sir Robert Topping. Signed typescript.

Dates: 30 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/6-8
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Note by Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to Prime Minister] to WSC about WSC's retirement honours list with a list of 'political' and 'non-political' honours and comments on the procedures to be followed. Signed typescript.

Dates: 08 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 10 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/9-10
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Confidential note from Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to Prime Minister] to WSC enclosing a list of WSC's resignation honours [see CHAR 20/208/11-15] in the form it is to be submitted to King George VI and informing him that the list has been approved by the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee. In a post script he notes "I have seen all the Private Office recipients personally and have never seen such delight in each and every case." Signed typescript.

Dates: 10 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), [10] [Aug] [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/11-15
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List of honours arising from WSC's resignation including details of the honour, medal or award to be conferred, the name of the recipient and the reasons for the honour. Typescript. Covering letter at CHAR 20/208/9-10.

Dates: [10] [Aug] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 10 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/16
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of the Woodford Conservative Association] marked "private" explaining that he has not been able to include Frank Foster's name in his resignation honours list but hopes that he may be recommended through the normal channels. Carbon typescript.

Dates: 10 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 09 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/17
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Note from Elizabeth Layton [Secretary to WSC] to WSC asking him whether he would like to inform Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of the Woodford Conservative Association] that [Frank] Foster's name has not been included in his resignation honours list. Typescript.

Dates: 09 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 01 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/18
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Letter from Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of the Woodford Conservative Association] (Kebles, Woodford Green, Essex) to WSC recommending that WSC should include [Frank] Foster's name in his resignation honours list for civil defence services. He encloses a copy of a supporting letter from Ernest Gowers [CHAR 20/208/19]. Signed typescript.

Dates: 01 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), [Jul] [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/22-26
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List of provisional suggestions for [WSC's resignation honours list] including Peers, Privy Councillors, Knights, and Baronets. Typescript with manuscript annotations. Some names have been crossed through.

Dates: [Jul] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 09 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/27
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Note from Elizabeth Layton [Secretary to WSC] recording WSC's wish that [John] Colville [Private Secretary to Prime Minister] and [Sheila] Minto [Secretary to WSC] should be included in the next list for awards. Typescript.

Dates: 09 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), [Aug] [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/28-30
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Copy of WSC's resignation honours list including the names of those submitted for honours. The list is arranged by those associated with defence, politics, music and WSC's Private Office. Carbon typescript.

Dates: [Aug] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), [Jul] [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/35-40
Scope and Contents List [of WSC's resignation honours] including details of the life and achievements of: [1st] Lord Teviot [earlier Charles Kerr] who has been recommended to be a Privy Councillor for his political services; George Seager [later 1st Lord Leighton] who has been recommended to be made a Baron for his public and political services; Captain Nevil Beechman and Thomas Magnay who have been recommended for Knighthoods; and Mrs Violet Butt and Mrs Dorothy Fisher-Brown who have been recommended for the...
Dates: [Jul] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.
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(Untitled), 12 Aug 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/208/44-45
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from [Leslie Rowan, Private Secretary to Prime Minister] to Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] marked "immediate and confidential" enclosing WSC's resignation honours list [see CHAR 20/208/46-52]. He explains that WSC has been allowed to send in the list as he was not able to do so before resigning as Prime Minister; discusses awards to the Chiefs of Staff and the defence medal; and expresses the hope that the list will be approved. Carbon...
Dates: 12 Aug 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: resignation honours.

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