Scope and Contents File includes: Correspondence and papers on WSC's activities as Hon. Air Commodore, 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron, RAAF, 1952-53, including correspondence with Squadron Leader F B Sowrey (8) on his command of the squadron, 1952-53, on award of the Cooper Trophy for the most efficient Auxiliary Squadron at Armament Practice Camp, 1952, correspondence and papers on joint inspection of 600 and 615 Squadrons by the Honorary Air Commodores, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and WSC, 1952,...

Scope and Contents File includes correspondence with The Municipal Council of Thebes, Greece, on election an Honorary Citizen, and the naming of the central square "Winston Churchill Square", 1945; Lord Pembroke and Montgomery on election as Honorary Member of the Travellers' Club, Paris, 1947; The Tuna Club, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, United States, on election as Honorary Member, 1941, with Year Book, and photograph of WSC with Marlin Swordfish, Catalina Island, 1929; Sir Ronald Graham on...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on the establishment of Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, Mount Carmel, Haifa, including:.Correspondence with Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, 1958 (2); correspondence, papers and press cuttings on opening of the Winston Churchill Auditorium at Technion, by Sarah Churchill, (later Lady Audley) May 1958; correspondence with Joseph Cohen, Executive Director, (2) and Sir Loius Sterling, Life President, (2) British Technion Committee on Annual...

Scope and Contents File includes correspondence with: Cambridge Union Society offering Honorary Membership, 1955 (declined); Geoffrey Stevens MP (2), Sir Richard Glyn, (3) and Philip Ingress Bell MP (5) on the United and Cecil Club, 1953-60; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, (2) on the United Europe Movement, 1953; Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens on the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement, 1958; The United Nations Association of Great Britain, on re-election as Honorary President, 1954; Harold Macmillan...

Scope and Contents File includes correspondence with: The Union Belgo-Britannique, (Lord Selborne), on monument to commemorate the first crossing of the Belgian frontier by the British Army in WWII, 1949; The United Club, particularly Eric Errington, (2) and Geoffrey Stevens MP, Chairman, on merger with the Cecil Club, with covering note by Patrick Buchan Hepburn, (later Lord Hailes) Conservative Chief Whip, 1949-51; The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, particularly Charles...

Scope and Contents File includes correspondence with: The British Legion, Westerham Branch, on activities as President, 1952-60; Westerham Cricket Club on re-election as Vice-President; Westerham Gala Day, on support, 1954-61; Westerham Market Fat Stock Show Society, on election as President, 1954-57; Westerham Miniature Rifle Club, on election as Honorary Vice-President, 1957-60; The Rotary Club of Westerham, on election as an Honorary Member, 1961; The Western Morning News, on message for Centenary, 1960,...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various individuals on a memorial to WSC's speech "The Sinews of Peace". The memorial consisted of the church of St Mary Aldermanbury, City of London, which was rebuilt at Westminster College. Correspondents include: Christopher Everett and Robert Ford of the Foreign Office; representatives of Westminster College including Robert Davidson, President (19) and Joseph Staples, Administrative Assistant (3); Joyce Hall of Hallmark cards (5); Patrick Horsbrugh (7);...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on presentation of the Williamsburg Award to WSC by the Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg.File includes album of presscuttings on announcement of award, Oct 1955; notes John Colville for WSC's speech at award ceremony, 7 Dec 1955; biographical notes on the Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg, Horace Albright, Armistead Boothe, Harvie Branscomb, Kenneth Chorley, Hector Escobosa, Wallace Harrison, Lewis Powell, Webster Rhoads, Winthrop Rockefeller, Henry Stryker and...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Monsieur Campinchi, French Minister of Marine; [1st] Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] of the Daily Telegraph sending on a United States article published in the Telegraph; Robert Cary; [1st] Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] (?2) including (1) on the League [of Nations]; Lord Hugh Cecil [later 1st Lord Quickswood]; Neville Chamberlain (5) on subjects including his health, government policy, and his resignation; Sir Evan...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War] (5) including (2) on his role in the government; Maxine Elliott on her health (2); Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on honouring [Walter Richard] Sickert; Daisy Fellowes [earlier Daisy, Princesse de Broglie] (2); Sir Warren Fisher [Regional Commander for Civil Defence, North-West Region] criticising the conduct of the war; [Edward] FitzClarence [later 6th Lord Munster] on Randolph Churchill's time in the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Prime Minister's salary (2); Nigel Davies on WSC's support for his candidacy at Epping [Essex]; Kenneth de Courcy; Rupert de la Bere on ex-service civil servants; Lord Pakenham [later 7th Lord Longford] (2); representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Mark Chapman-Walker and Sir Robert Cary (7); Irving Dix (United States Representative) on US political and economic affairs; James Stuart [Chief...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Shenton Thomas on Malaya's [later Malaysia] war effort; Edward Mallalieu; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (7); 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley [earlier William Sidney, later 1st Lord De L'Isle] on a fund for the defence of Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein; Prime Minister Clement Attlee on currency for Princess Margaret's trip to Italy; Douglas Marshall (4); Moss Turner-Samuels; John Langford-Holt; Lieutenant-General Sir...

Scope and Contents Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, with some notes and replies by Private Office Staff including Miss E M Watson, John Peck, George Harvie Wattand John Colville.Correspondents include Sir Eugene Ramsden on visit to Yorkshire during election campaign; Thomas Levy on election defeat; Lord Ashfield, London Passenger Transport Board, sending poster for display at stations quoting from speech by WSC; Prof A M Low, enclosing...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Major-General N Moore of the 4th Battalion the Essex Regiment (3); Brigadier Charles Paton, Colonel of the Essex Regiment (3); Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Denning, Colonel of the 3rd East Anglian regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel D Garrard (3) and Lieutenant-Colonel R Randall (3) of the Essex Regiment; Colonel Sir Thomas Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards; various members of the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Royal Berkshire Yeomanry and the...

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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Naval Secretary, Admiralty [Rear-Admiral Dudley de Chair], asking for list of 7 or 8 officers to receive the Civil CB [Commander of the Order of the Bath], including Rear- Admiral Frederic Brock, and Commander Frederic Dreyer. [Carbon].

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Minute by WSC, on decision to submit the name of Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore for a KCB [Knight Commander of the Bath], stating that it was important that awards for peace-time service should be cleared off first, and not intermingled with those for war service. [Carbon] [Admiral Moore was awarded the KCB in 1914].

Scope and Contents Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], recommending the appointment of Rear-Admiral John de Robeck for a regular command afloat, suggesting his appointment as 2nd in Command of a Battle Squadron. WSC states that de Robeck was better suited for the regular duties of a sea officer than for the special work of Admiral of Patrols, in which "considerable tactical ability ... and a marked appreciation of...

Scope and Contents Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the Admiralty Honours List, asking for CB's [Commanderships of the Order of the Bath] for James Masterton Smith [Private Secretary to WSC] and Reginald Acland, the Judge-Advocate of the Fleet. WSC states that if a Civil CB was impossible for Acland, he should be considered for a simple knighthood; WSC also comments on the claims of Anthony Lyster, President of the...

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Submission from [? James Masterton Smith, Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, recommending Lieutenant-Commander Robinson for promotion to Commander. Includes note of WSC's reply, agreeing and making other recommendations for promotions or decorations.

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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later Lord Milford Haven] stating that he could not pass over Rear-Admiral Alexander Duff in favour of Rear-Admiral Horace Hood for the post of Rear Admiral, 4th Battle Squadron, as Duff was senior, and had been promised the post once mobilisation was complete. WSC recommends Hood for the Dover Patrol. [Hand-written copy, unsigned].

Scope and Contents Letter from Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC, reporting a meeting with 1st Lord Stamfordham [Private Secretary to King George V] on the Birthday Honours List, stating that the King was anxious to announce the two naval KCBs [Knight Commander of the Bath], and was "distressed" at the idea of a blank sheet for the Royal Navy. Asquith comments that he had made clear WSC's invidious position with 40 CBs [Commander of the Order of the Bath] at his...

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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to King George V, on naval honours, complaining that it was unfair that 21 army officers were decorated with or advanced in the Order of the Bath, but that only one naval officer was so rewarded. [Manuscript copy, signed by WSC].

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Letter from King George V, (Windsor Castle [Berkshire]), to WSC, sympathising with WSC regarding the "unfairness of existing arrangements for the bestowal of honours on Officers of the Navy", and stating that he was prepared to agree to the appointment of a Committee to consider the institution of a special decoration for the Royal Navy. He also asks for WSC's assurance that there was a demand for the decoration among naval officers.

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Note from WSC (Admiralty), to Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], asking him to read a draft letter to King George V on naval honours, with Asquith's reply, suggesting that he accept the suggestion of a committee to consider the question. [Hand-written, initialled by Churchill and Asquith].

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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].