GB 0099 KCLMA Allenby - ALLENBY, FM Edmund (Henry Hynman), 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861-1936)

14 boxes or 0.14 metres cubed

GB 0099 KCLMA Allenby Created 1881-1950, 1955 Collection (fonds) 14 boxes or 0.14 metres cubed Allenby , Edmund (Henry Hynman) , 1861-1936 , 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo , Field Marshal

Born in 1861; educated at Haileybury College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into 6 Inniskilling Dragoons, 1882; served in Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-1885, and in Zululand, 1888; Adjutant, Inniskilling Dragoons, 1889-1893; served in UK, 1890-1896; Staff College, Camberley, 1896-1897; Maj, 1897; Bde Maj, 3 Cavalry Bde, Ireland, 1898; served in South Africa, 1899-1902; commanded 5 Royal Irish Lancers, 1902-1905, and 4 Cavalry Brigade, Eastern Command, 1905-1910; Inspector of Cavalry, 1910-1914; served on Western Front, 1914-1917; Commander, Cavalry Div (later Cavalry Corps), BEF, 1914; Commander, 5 Army Corps, 1915; Commander, 3 Army, 1915-1917; Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Palestine and Egypt, 1917-1919; FM, 1919; High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1919-1925; died in 1936. Placed

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1976.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1881-1936, including letters to his family, 1890-1922, notably covering his service in UK, 1890-1896, and South Africa, 1899-1902, including operations around Colesberg, Dec 1899-Jan 1900, relief of Kimberley, Feb 1900, Battle of Diamond Hill, Jun 1900, and operations in Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1900-1902, on Western Front, 1914-1917, including the first battle of Ypres, Oct-Nov 1914, Battle of Arras, Apr 1917, and in Palestine and Egypt, 1917-1922, including third Battle of Gaza, Oct-Nov 1917, capture of Jerusalem, Dec 1917, Battle of Megiddo, Sep 1918, and fall of Damascus, Oct 1918; correspondence relating to Allenby's role as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1919-1925, including telegrams exchanged by Allenby and the Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, over Nevile Meyrick Henderson's appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary and Allenby's resignation as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1924-1925; manuscript, typescript and printed texts of speeches, lectures and articles, [1929-1936]; newspaper cuttings, 1899-1936, including obituaries of Allenby, 1936; photographs, 1881-1936. Papers collected by Gen Archibald Percival Wavell during the writing of Allenby: a study in greatness (Harrap and Co, London, 1940) and Allenby in Egypt (Harrap and Co, London, 1943) principally comprising correspondence and notes written by Allenby's army colleagues, 1936-1943; notes and letters from Gerald Delany concerning Allenby in Egypt, [1940-1943]; letter from Gen Sir Henry George Chauvel to Director of Australian War Memorial concerning Seven pillars of wisdom by Thomas Edward Lawrence (also known as Thomas Edward Shaw) (Jonathan Cape, London, 1935), 1936, and printed appreciation of Lawrence by Allenby, 1935.

Arranged in the following sections: personal papers and correspondence; Palestine and Egypt; speeches, lectures and articles; newspaper cuttings; photographs and photograph albums; correspondence received by Wavell during writing of Allenby; material collected by Wavell for Allenby in Egypt, including papers relating to Lawrence.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
mainly English, some Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian and French.

Detailed catalogue available on-line at http:www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Middle East Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford holds copies of papers relating to Allenby's service in the Middle East.

Papers of FM Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Bt,include official and personal correspondence with Allenby concerning operations in Egypt, 1917-1918 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Robertson 1/14, 1/21, 1/32). Papers of Gen Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea include letters from Allenby concerning operations in Palestine, 1917-1918 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Shea 4/2).

Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford holds additional correspondence relating to Allenby and his service in the Middle East in the papers of Sir Milne Cheetham, Col C F Ryder, Gerald Delany, Sir William Goodenough Hayter, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel and Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Bt. The Imperial War Museum holds correspondence with Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1918-1921 (Ref: HHW), six letters from Allenby to George Yardley, 1917-1922, and one to E S Jackson, 1934. The papers of Lt Gen Sir Herbert (Scott Gould) Miles at Christ Church, Oxford, also include correspondence with Allenby, 1923-1924. The papers of Philip Kerr at the National Archives of Scotland include correspondence, 1917-1920. The Department of Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library holds letters from R Wingate, 1917-1919 (Ref: Hardinge). The papers of Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, at the House of Lords Records Office include correspondence, 1918-1921.

The papers have been used by (Robert) Brian Gardner for his biography, 'Allenby' (Cassell, London, 1965), and by Thomas Pakenham for 'The Boer War' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979).

Decorations: GCB, GCMG, GCVO
Jan 1997 Allenby , Edmund Henry Hynman , 1861-1936 , 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe , Field Marshal x Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe , 1st Viscount Armed forces Arras Belgium British Army Chamberlain , Sir , Joseph Austen , 1863-1937 , Knight , politician Chauvel , Sir , Henry George , 1865-1945 , Knight , Australian General Colesberg Damascus Delany , Gerald , fl 1940-1943 Diamond Hill East Africa Egypt Europe France Gaza Gaza Strip Henderson , Sir , Neville Meyrick , d 1942 , Knight , diplomat International conflicts International relations Israel Jerusalem Kimberley Megiddo Middle East Military organizations North Africa Orange Free State Organizations Palestine Pas de Calais Photographs Province of the Northern Cape Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Shaw , Thomas Edward , 1888-1935 , Aircraftman , Lieutenant Colonel x Lawrence of Arabia x Lawrence , Thomas Edward South Africa Southern Africa State security Sudan Syrian AR Transvaal UK Visual materials War Wavell , Archibald Percival , 1883-1950 , 1st Earl Wavell , Field Marshal x Wavell , 1st Earl Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Ypres Wars (events) London England

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1976.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1881-1936, including letters to his family, 1890-1922, notably covering his service in UK, 1890-1896, and South Africa, 1899-1902, including operations around Colesberg, Dec 1899-Jan 1900, relief of Kimberley, Feb 1900, Battle of Diamond Hill, Jun 1900, and operations in Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1900-1902, on Western Front, 1914-1917, including the first battle of Ypres, Oct-Nov 1914, Battle of Arras, Apr 1917, and in Palestine and Egypt, 1917-1922, including third Battle of Gaza, Oct-Nov 1917, capture of Jerusalem, Dec 1917, Battle of Megiddo, Sep 1918, and fall of Damascus, Oct 1918; correspondence relating to Allenby's role as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1919-1925, including telegrams exchanged by Allenby and the Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, over Nevile Meyrick Henderson's appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary and Allenby's resignation as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1924-1925; manuscript, typescript and printed texts of speeches, lectures and articles, [1929-1936]; newspaper cuttings, 1899-1936, including obituaries of Allenby, 1936; photographs, 1881-1936. Papers collected by Gen Archibald Percival Wavell during the writing of Allenby: a study in greatness (Harrap and Co, London, 1940) and Allenby in Egypt (Harrap and Co, London, 1943) principally comprising correspondence and notes written by Allenby's army colleagues, 1936-1943; notes and letters from Gerald Delany concerning Allenby in Egypt, [1940-1943]; letter from Gen Sir Henry George Chauvel to Director of Australian War Memorial concerning Seven pillars of wisdom by Thomas Edward Lawrence (also known as Thomas Edward Shaw) (Jonathan Cape, London, 1935), 1936, and printed appreciation of Lawrence by Allenby, 1935.

Arranged in the following sections: personal papers and correspondence; Palestine and Egypt; speeches, lectures and articles; newspaper cuttings; photographs and photograph albums; correspondence received by Wavell during writing of Allenby; material collected by Wavell for Allenby in Egypt, including papers relating to Lawrence.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

• Engels

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mainly English, some Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian and French.

Papers of FM Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Bt,include official and personal correspondence with Allenby concerning operations in Egypt, 1917-1918 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Robertson 1/14, 1/21, 1/32). Papers of Gen Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea include letters from Allenby concerning operations in Palestine, 1917-1918 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Shea 4/2).

Detailed catalogue available on-line at http:www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Middle East Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford holds copies of papers relating to Allenby's service in the Middle East.

Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford holds additional correspondence relating to Allenby and his service in the Middle East in the papers of Sir Milne Cheetham, Col C F Ryder, Gerald Delany, Sir William Goodenough Hayter, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel and Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Bt. The Imperial War Museum holds correspondence with Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1918-1921 (Ref: HHW), six letters from Allenby to George Yardley, 1917-1922, and one to E S Jackson, 1934. The papers of Lt Gen Sir Herbert (Scott Gould) Miles at Christ Church, Oxford, also include correspondence with Allenby, 1923-1924. The papers of Philip Kerr at the National Archives of Scotland include correspondence, 1917-1920. The Department of Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library holds letters from R Wingate, 1917-1919 (Ref: Hardinge). The papers of Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, at the House of Lords Records Office include correspondence, 1918-1921.

Decorations: GCB, GCMG, GCVO

Decorations: GCB, GCMG, GCVO

• Engels