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1 Books to read, F-G War, 1870, Col Braithwaite. 2 Outline of theatre of war, 1870, Col Braithwaite. 3 War Office scheme, for practice in minute writing etc. 4 syndicates, The Commandant. 4 2 railway maps of 1870, French and German, Col Perceval. 5 Strengths of British, French and German navies, Lt Col Harper. 6 Scheme 1, 1870. As CGS French army draw up memo and draft orders &c. 14 syndicates, Col Braithwaite. 7 Programme for visit to 1870 battlefields, Col Braithwaite. 8 Reconnaissance of defended port with view to attack on land side. 10 syndicates, Col Banon and Lt Col Harper. 9 Railways in South Africa, Col Perceval. 10 Memoir - how far are strategical and tactical lessons of 1815 etc confirmed or modified by war in Manchuria, The Commandant. 11 4 maps issued for lecture on "Cavalry", Lt Col Barrow. 12 Discuss suggestions in p.118, part 3, FOA 1870, re employment of French cavalry, Lt Col Barrow. 13 1st railway exercise. 6 syndicates, Col Perceval.

14 Discuss occupation of Weissemburg by Douay's division, Col Braithwaite. 15 2 [maps] of position at Woerth, Col Braithwaite. 16 Discuss action De Failly should have taken on 5.8.70. 4 syndicates, Col Braithwaite and Lt Col Ross. 17 As Gen. Staff Officer in Berlin state hostile acts to be committed before formal outbreak of war with England, Lt Col Harper. 18 Continuation of No 8 (Scheme 1). Attack of defended harbour, Col Banon and Lt Col Harper. 19 Spicheren, 2 plans and 1 plate of profiles, Lt Col Ross. 20 II railway exercise - 6 syndicates, Col Perceval. 21 Showing arrangements on beach for disembarkation. Issues for lecture by Capt. Gilpin-Brown RN, Col Banon. 22 Staff arrangements for overseas expeditions, Col Banon. 23 Colmbey, Lt Col Ross. 24 Scheme no 3. Discuss actions of v. Kameke, v. der Goltz, and v, Alvensleben re Spicheren, Colombey and Mars la Tour. 11 syndicates, Col Braithwaite. 25 Lecture - cavalry in battle, Lt Col Barrow. 26 Dimensions &c of British warships and destroyers, Col Banon (Comdr. Jeffreys). 27 Combined naval and military staff tour - papers 1-4 - first tour - general and special ideas. 10 parties, The Commandant. 28 Embarkation scheme. Ist part - prepare instns for movement to docks etc, 7 syndicates. IInd part. Command tables, maps, plans, instns etc necessary, Col Banon. 29 As C. of S. to Macmahon 22-8-70, draw up project for operations of "Army of Chalons". 14 synds, Lt Col Ross. 30 Cavalry scheme. Detaining hostile force, Lt Col Barrow. 31 2 maps - 1 position on morning of 18th Aug and II attack of IXth Corps Gravelotte, Lt Col Furse. 32 Stocks of raw material and foodstuffs, Lt Col Harper. 33 Re foreign officers travelling in Germany, and summary of laws dealing with espionage on Continent, Col Banon. 34 3 of 1870. I position of 10th armies 24-28th Aug. II B of Beaumont. III Sedan, Lt Col Rose. 35 Regns affecting requisitioning in France and Belgium, Col Banon. 36 Von Werder's campaign in the south-east of France 1870-71, The Commandant.

37 Part III. 1st three days work at College with naval officers, The Commandant. 38 SC officers on East Coast, The Commandant. 39 Part III. Re-embarkation, The Commandant. 40 Exercise in setting tactical scheme. Division divided half red, half blue (attack and defence), Col Perceval. 41 Comparison between Walley of R.Po and the Valley of the Severn, Col Perceval. 42 Appreciation; Scheme with opposing forces (Severn Valley); Blueland (Gloucester); Redland (Bath), The Commandant. 42A Operation orders, order of battle and red and blue forces, The Commandant. 43 Billeting in depth, requisitioning and living on the country, Cols Banon and Perceval. 44 Notes and points in connection with Severn Valley staff tour June 1st-4th, The Commandant. 45 2nd exercise in setting tactical schemes. "Advance and rear guard commands". Division divided into two parties. Individual work, Col Perceval. 46 Table of Indian pack transport, Lt Col Barrow.

47 Scheme for staff tour in Wales. I exercise. From all officers - minute from GOC epdn. To C-in-C India, The Commandant. 47A Part II. Ex II. Composition of columns. Standing orders for forces. Staff and 3 parties. 47B Notes for directing staff and train arrangements. 47CNarrative and table of road spaces. 48 Mountain warfare, Lt Col Stewart. 49 Advantages and disadvantages of billeting and bivouacking for cavalry, Lt Col Barrow. 50 Communication scheme, Lt Col Harper. 51 Communication scheme of 23rd June, Lt Col Harper. 52 General idea and special ideas Northland and Westland. Appreciations 1st exercise - opposing forces, The Commandant. 53 Report on training with other arms, The Commandant. 54 Arrangements for tactical fitness examination. 12 parties. Selected schemes worked out on ground, Cols Banon and Perceval. 55 Ordnance depot. General Hospl and supply depot, Col Banon. 56 Combined scheme. Part I. General and special ideas. Reconnaissance of area of concentration, Cols Banon and Perceval.

57 Schemes selected from work sent in, in connection with No 54. Tactical fitness examination, Officers of Division. 58 Notes on, and solution of certain points raised during staff tour in North Wales, Lt Col Stewart. 59 Tables and distributions of Divinl. Signal Co, Lt Col Harper. 60 Combined scheme. Part II. Staff duties. Connected with disembarkation of large force, Col Banon. 61 Combined scheme Part III Staff duties. Connected with advanced base and billeting and bivouac arrangements, Col Banon. 62 Second exercise for "tactical fitness examn." Separate scheme issues to officers on Junr Divn staff tour, Cols Banon and Perceval. 63 Exercise [blank space] writing orders for change of direction of large force. Issues in place of part IV, combined scheme, Cols Banon & Perceval. 64 Points brought out in connection with wildland staff tour 12th-16th July, The Commandant. 65 Staff duties. Arrangements for carrying out a review, 4 syndicates, Col Banon.

66 General idea with special ideas for opposing forces. Preliminary work - appreciations and orders for movements, The Commandant. 67 tactical scheme, night operations. Two sides. Red 7 parties, Blue 1, Col Perceval. 68 Staff duties. Army manoeuvres. 3 syndicates, Col Banon. 69 Trees of Japanese army staff system, Lt Col Barrow. 70 Trees of Russian army staff system, Lt Col Barrow. 71 Points raised in connection with Insp. Staff tour, with 2 appendices, (A) on fortresses by the CGS and (B) on railways by Lt Col Whigham. 72 Syllabus of lecture "Cavalry in co-operation with the other arms", recapitulation of ways in which cavalry can co-operative, and three maps, Lt Col Barrow. 73 Order of battle Japanese forces etc, Col Perceval. 74 Japanese mobilization and syllabus of lecture, Lt Col Whigham. 75 Administration of a training grant. 3 parties, Cols Banon and Perceval. 76 Distribution of troops in Manchuria '04 and syllabus of lecture "Russian mobilization", Lt Col Whigham. 77 Rations carries with field troops in Russian army, Col Banon. 78 Belgian scheme, Part I. 7 syndicates, The Commandant.

79 Syllabus of lecture on & paper of names and lengths of Trans-Siberian railway, Lt Col Whigham. 80 [Map] to illustrate advance of 1st Japanese army through Korea, Col Banon. 81 [Map] to illustrate Battle of the Yalu, Lt Col Furse. 82 Belgian scheme, Part II, same syndicates as for Part I, The Commandant. 83 3 maps illustrating landing of 2nd Japanese army and battle of Nanshan, Lt Col Ross. 84 [Map] showing situation in Manchuria 8th June '04, Lt Col Furse. 85 [Map] illustrating battle of Te-li-ssu, Lt Col Furse. 86 Yeomanry schemes. Ought they to have a separate training manual? 11 syndicates in 2 groups, The Commandant. 87 Cavalry scheme, Lt Col Barrow. 88 Situation in Manchuria, 22.8.04, Lt Col Ross. 89 Home Defence Scheme, Part I, The Commandant. 90 Reinforcements to expeditionary force and base record office (all officers), Lt Col Whigham. 91 Set ofthree [maps] to illustrate battle of Laio Yang, Lt Col Ross. 92 Home defence scheme Part II. 7 syndicates, The Commandant. 93 Instructions for utilization of local resources scheme. 12 syndicates in 3 groups, The Commandant. 94 The defence of India (lecture), Lt Col Stewart. 95 The defence of India. 7 syndicates, The Commandant. 96 Education scheme. 8 syndicates in 3 groups, The Commandant. 97 Illustrating Mischenko's raid, Lt Col Barrow. 98 Subjects treated in Part I of memoirs, The Commandant. 99 On fighting in enclosed country, The Commandant.

1 Fortification of harbour against attack by land and sea, Lt Col Aston. 2 Employment of population of United Kingdom, Lt Col Aston. 3 Organisation and defence of a Line of Communication in war - 1st day, general reconnaissance of country, Lt Col Haking. 4 Railway Exercise. Detraining Inf Divn, Col Capper. 5 Cost of sea transport in war, Lt Col Aston. 6 Railway Exercise. Entraining Army Corps, Lt Col Capper. 7 Naval events of Russo-Japanese from Feb '04, Lt Col Aston. 8 Land operations of Russo-Japanese war from Feb '04, Lt Col Kiggell. 9 Show advantages and disadvantages of invasion of France in '70 by Upper Rhine instead of Palatinate, Lt Col Haking. 10 As S.O. to Napoleon, draw up plan of operations d/- 9 a.m. 29th July 1870.

11 Contn of No. 3. Report on best method of working line with damaged bridge for traffic, Col Capper. 12 Naval events Russo-Japanese war June '04 to Feb '05, Lt Col Aston. 13 Contn. of No 3. March of division westwards through woods, Lt Col Haking. 14 Difficulties and cost of sea transport during war, Lt Col Aston. 15 Tables of British and Foreign merchantile marine, Lt Col Aston. 16 Advance of German Army (III) on 4th Aug 1870, Lt Col Haking. 17 Contn of No 1. Slect positions for batteries, Lt Col Aston. 18 Action at Weissembourg, Lt Col Haking. 19 Battle of Weissembourg, Lt Col Haking. 20 Positions of French and German armies 31.7.70, Lt Col Haking. 21 1st part of disembarkation scheme, Lt Col Aston. 22 2nd part of disembarkation scheme with sketch map of coast and plan of Southampton docks, Col Capper and Lt Col Aston. 23 Disembarkation Staff Ride with Naval officers 28th to 31st March, Col Capper and Lt Col Aston. 24 2 sketches, movements of tropps at Spicheren, Lt Col Haking. 25 Principles of Imperial Strategy, Lt Col Aston. 26 Distribution of 1st Class battleships, Lt Col Aston. 27 Orders & Arrangements prior to despatch of an expedition (part of disembarkation Staff Ride), Col Capper. 28 Memoir; discuss, from modern view, most instructive lessons from battlefield visit, Lt Col Haking. 29 Paper on proposed jetty, issued in connection with Disembarkation Staff Ride, Col Capper. 30 Comparison of Naval and Military strategy (D), Lt Col Aston. 31 Permanent General Idea for work during May and June, Commandant. 32 March orders for Blue force from Croydon to Hindhead. Contn of No 31, Col Capper. 33 Show distribution of French army, Blue local forces in peninsula and table of armed forces in British Colonies. Contn of No 32, Col Capper.

34 Staff Tour 22nd to 25th May, Col Capper and Lt Col Aston. 35 Offensive action by the British Army in War, Lt Col Aston.36 Employment of raiding and expeditionary forces in war, Lt Col Aston. 37 Draw up memo of physical features of Blue Peninsula likely to affect strategy of campaign, Lt Col Haking. 38 Organisation of base near Staines harbour, Col Capper. 39 As S.O. to G.O.C. frame operations to repel possible invasion of peninsula, Lt Col Haking. 40 Reconnoitre tactical features of area of country with view to best lines of advance, Lt Col Haking. 41 Select bivouacs and write halt orders for force advancing through uncivilized enemy's country, Lt Col Capper.

42 Notes on telegraph cables, Lt Col Aston. 43 As S.O. to Red Comdr draw up plan of operations and draft operation orders, Lt Col Gough. 44 Cavalry dispositions and reconnaissance, Lt Col Gough. 45 Laying out Divl camp and writing halt orders, Col Capper. 46 Amplify and criticise paper (M) No 35, Lt Col Aston. 47 Skeleton 1" map of country between Reading, Staines and Aldershot, contn of No 40, Lt Col Haking. 48 General scheme contd, orders and dispositions of cavalry divisions, Lt Col Gough. 49 General scheme &notes, with map, for Tour in Wales 1st to 5th July, Exercise No 1, Col Capper. 50 Plan of operations. List of parties. Ex No 2, Col Capper. 51 Notes for Superintending Officers, Col Capper. 52 Instns to officers, trains, hotels, &c, Col Capper. 53 1. As C-in-C Red Army write orders &c; 2. Select and sketch positions of outposts and show strengths for 1st and 2nd A.Corps, Lt Col Haking. 54 1. Cav; Div: orders required by para 8 scheme 1 of No 53. 2. Outpost positions and sketch for Cav. 55 Halt and quartering orders for Red Force, Col Capper. 56 Reconnaissance for attack by Red on 19th. Contn of No 53 et seq, Col Haking. 57 Orders for attack on Blue position on 20th, Col Haking. 58 Notes for directing staff for work of 20 and 21st, Commandant.

59 Report whilst attached to other arms, Commandant. 60 Staff Tour 24th to 27th July, opposing forces, Commandant. 61 Visit of officers to Channel Fleet, Col Aston. 62 Furnish report on effect of redistribution of fleet on employment of military forces, Col Aston. 63 Reconnaissance. Appreciation of situation, advance orders, &c, Commandant. 64 Statement of warships of foreign powers, Col Aston. 65 Ascertain to what extent alliances would affect our maintaining a field army on foreign territory in case of war with European Powers, Col Aston. 66 Inspection Staff Tour. OCtr 2nd to 6th. Appreciations and plans from General Idea for framing Special Ideas for Red and Green, Commandant. 67 Operations of 5th German Cav Divn 11th t0 14th August 1870, Lt Col Gough. 68 What events would most likely lead to Gt Britain intervening in violation of neutrality of Belgium, Col Haking. 69 Contn of No 66. Special Idea Green. Appreciate aituation 5.pm 1st Octr, Col Capper. 70 Contn of No 66. Special Red Idea. Appreciate situation 5 p.m., 1st Octr, Col Haking. 71 Write a strategical study of Belgian thatre of war as S.O. to British C-in-C in command of allied foce, Col Haking. 72 Discuss how German Cav should have covered I and II Armies during last weeks of July 1870, Lt Col Gough. 73 Study of possible campaign in Basutoland, Col Haking. 74 Draw up a scheme for proposed manoeuvres on large scale in U.Kingdom, Col Capper. 75 Contn of No 72. Discuss how German Cav should have been employed to meet situation of evening of 9th August, Lt Col Gough. 76 Salamanca June and July 1812, Col Haking. 77 Movements of opposing armies at Salamanca 26th June to 21st July 1812, Col Haking. 78 Austerlitz No II. Napoleon's advance to Vienna, Col Haking. 79 Defence of North West Frontier India. Offrs work in pairs, Col Haking. Austerlitz No III. Events from 9th Novr to battle, Col Haking. 81 Artillery in Attack ad Defence, Lt Col du Cane. 82 Short précis of course in Imperial Strategy, Lt Col Gough. 83 Sketch of cavalry action in plateau near ville-sur-Yron, Lt Col Gough. 84 Precis of solutions of Imperial Strategy No VIII.