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Papers of Schwarzheide concentration camp, 1990s, comprise copies of documentation regarding its bombing, including various short articles on the subject; details of the units employed in the bombing raids; maps of the camp and environs and correspondence with archives regarding relevant holdings.

Printed topographical map made up of 7 separate sheets (one titled Mayence) glued together showing the border region of France and Germany with approximate centre on Homburg representing approximately 220 miles east-west and 250 miles north-south. The 1918 front line is hand drawn and coloured as are national borders. Enemy airfields housing bomber units are indicated by coloured markers. This map is complementary to JSCSC IF 2/2.

Papers of Major Arthur GREIG, 1910-1958, comprising:

Nine field maps of the Western Front, 1910-1918, relating to Captain Arthur Greig's military service in the London Scottish Regiment during the First World War (1914-1919); autobiographical notes by Greig probably made in 1958, covering his employment at the Society until the period until 1951.

1 Specimen of Fld Book Traverse to plot, Lt Col Gough. 2 Doing and finishing sketches, Lt Col Gough. 3 Discuss effect of modern firearms on Tactics in defensive and offensive, Lt Col Kiggell. 4 Discuss present conditions expected in service rifle for the 3 arms, Inf; Cav: Mtd Inf, Col Johnston. 5 Sketch of Kidney Hill, Lt Col Gough. 6 Tactics, defence of village, etc, Lt Col Kiggell. 7 Sketch of Diamond Hill, Lt Col Gough. 8 Specimens of correspondence précis work, Lt Col Gough. 9 Defence of village on flank of position, Col Johnston. 10 Reconnoitre position for best line of defence, Lt Col Kiggell. 11 Draw up Trees of organisation of W.O, Lt Col Gough. 12 Horseback sketch of position, Lt Col Gough. 13 Contn of No 10. Selection and occupation of outpost line, Lt Col Kiggell.

14 Precis Special Army Order of Jan '05, Lt Col Gough. 15 Establishing posts on road L of C, Col Johnston. 16 Cont of No 13. Make outpost arrangements and fix camping grounds for Divisions, Lt Col Kiggell. 17 Operations between opposing Western (Red) and Eastern (Blue) forces, Lt Col Kiggell. 18 2 maps showing position of armies 15th & 16th June 1815, Lt Col Kiggell. 19 Fortify village to cover Railway Station, and prepare bridge for demolition, Col Johnston. 20 Reconnaissance of position, Lt Col Gough. 21 Defence and attack of railway bridge and tunnel, Col Johnston. 22 Selection of positions of assembly before attack, 2 Divns on the march, Lt Col Kiggell. 23 Draw up Army organisation Tree for India, Lt Col Gough. 24 Horseback sketch and report, Lt Col Gough. 25 Selection of fortified defensive position, Lt Col Kiggell. 26 Contn of No 14. Demolition of tunnel, Col Johnston. 27 Illustrate principles of defensive action with ref. to Comb Training by V.Werder's Lizaine operations, Col Johnston.

28 Armament of Japanese & Russian, employment of Artillery in the field and Siege pieces, Col Johnston. 29 Memory sketch and report, Lt Col Gough. 30 Position of Wellington's forces 16, 17, 18 June 15, Lt Col Kiggell. 31 Instructions re attachment to other arms, the Commandant. 32 Trace course of Mobilisation of own Corps, giving daily detail until complete, Lt Col Stopford. 33 Selection of position for convoy when halted, Lt Col Stopford. 34 Selection of artillery defensive position with sketch, Lt Col Du Cane. 35 Protection of convoy halted at permanent post, Col Kiggell. 36 Scheme with opposing forces. 2 parties Red and Blue. 1st Ex. "Appreciation of situation", Col Kiggell. 37 Select and report on suitable camping grounds for Division, Lt Col Stopford. 38 Re visit to Woolwich and Erith, Lt Col Du Cane. 39 Ammunition supply for a Divn - estimate establishments, calculate road spaces, etc, Lt Col Du Cane. 40 Map of USA showing boundary in 1862, Col Kiggell. 41 Arty in the attack. 1 Draft orders for issue to Corps Arty. 2 Reconnoitre and report on position. 3 State artillery dispositions, Lt Col Du Cane. 42 Cont of No 36. Select bivouac and outpost positions, Col Kiggell.

43 Cont of No 36. Reconnaissance in accordance with wire from Chief of the General Staff of forces. Reports of movements and situation, Col Kiggell. 44 Skeleton map Virginia and Maryland for 1862, Col Kiggell. 45 Cont of No 36. Operation orders for both side, Col Kiggell. 46 Billeting force on march, Lt Col Stopford. 47 Preparation of position for offensive defensive action. Show detail of work, tools, etc Lt Col Du Cane.48 Billeting scheme, with sketch and report, Lt Col Stopford. 49 Road sketch, Lt Col Stopford. 50 Syllabus for exam in Artillery, Mil: Eng: etc, Lt Col Due Cane. 51 Work for 16th and 23rd June. 8 parties different localities, Col Kiggell. 52 Road sketch, Lt Col Stopford.

53 and a half inch map Reading to Alton for use with No 51, Col Kiggell. 54 Problem with Ammutn Supply (1/2 Divn), Lt Col Du Cane. 55 Arrangements for visit to Isle of Wight, Lt Col Du Cane. 56 Discuss courses open to Jackson on 17 April 62, Col Kiggell. 57 Give views of best method of composition and distribution of Art. If Divl Organsn is adopted, Lt Col Du Cane. 58 Arrangements for visit to Naval Establishmwent Portsmouth, Col Aston. 59 Programme of work. Panorama sketches of positions, Lt Col Gough. 60 Road sketch, Lt Col Stopford. 61 Reconnaissance of area of country with panoramas and report, Lt Col Stopford. 62 Arrange for defence of position and write necessary orders for carrying work out (Set by Examiner), Lt Col Du Cane. 63 Staff Tour 19th to 22nd Septr, Col Capper. 64 Staff Tour 19th to 22nd Septr, Col Kiggell. 65 Staff Tour 19th to 22nd Septr, Col Haking.

66 Staff Tour 19th to 22nd September, Lt Col Du Cane. 67 Staff Tour 19th to 22nd September, Lt Col Gough. 68 Syllabus of Military History and Geography. Strategy and Tactics Examn, Col Kiggell. 69 Three maps for us in studying '66 campaign, Col Kiggell. 70 Port of Dorking Defence Scheme. 4 parties, Lt Col Du Cane. 71 Syllabus of Examination in Military Engineering, Lt Col Du Cane. 72 Syllabus of Exam in Staff Duties, Lt Col Stopford. 73 Points for guidance in examn sketch, Lt Col Stopford. 74 Supply and march arrangements. 1st Scheme - Supply. 2nd - march orders, Col Kiggell and Lt Col Stopford. 75 Lecture on Fld Cos R.E by Major Powell, Lt Col Due Cane.

76 1. Discuss handling of command by P.Fred Charles 25/27 June '66. 2. What instructions should Benedek have issued 20th June '66, Col Kiggell. 77 Notes on Canadian Military Forces, Lt Col Stopford. 78 Position of both armies 2nd July 1866, Col Kiggell. 79 a. Defences of Port Arthur. B. Types of works &c, Lt Col Du Cane. 80 Austerlitz, Col Kiggell. 81 Salamanca, Col Kiggell. 82 How far are lessons (strategical and tactical) drawn from campaigns of 1815, '62, '66, and '70, confirmed or modified by recent Manchurian War? Col Kiggell. 83 Summary of lecture by Major Symons on provision of Annual Drafts to India, Lt Col Stopford. 84 Coast Defences of Port Arthur, Lt Col Du Cane.

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.

1 Battle of Sha Ho (Shi-li-ho), Lt Col Du Cane. 2 Discuss arguments on which summary to general considerations of Attack & Defence is based, Lt Col Braithwaite. 3 Rear guard defensive position, Lt Col Du Cane. 4 Paardeburg 18.2.1900, Lt Col Du Cane. 5 Driefontein 10.3.1900, Lt Col Du Cane. 6 Precise, in narrative form, certain correspondence, Lt Col Banon. 7 Tactical employment for artillery in attack & points in disposition for defence, Lt Col Du Cane. 8 Trace necessity of combination of 3 arms to carry out principles of attack & defence (C.T Sects 110-137), Lt Col Braithwaite. 9 Attack on Platrand S.A Jan: 1900, Lt Col Du Cane. 10 Waterloo campaign. Theatre of war, Lt Col Braithwaite. 11 Two maps of Spion Kop operations Jan 1900, Lt Col Du Cane. 12 Discuss probable effects had French Emperor made main advance by Mons in 1815, Lt Col Braithwaite. 13 Enlarge specimen map, Lt Col Banon. 14 Positions of armies 16th June 1815, Lt Col Braithwaite. 15 Vaalkrantz & Pieters Hill S.A Feb 1900, Lt Col Du Cane. 16 Memo on organisation &c of auxiliary forces, Lt Col Banon. 17 Ligny - order of battle, Lt Col Braithwaite. 18 Preparation of position for Batty of 18pr Q.F guns with map of position & plan of work, Lt Col Du Cane. 19 As SO to Wellington write appreciation of situation on morning of 17th June 1815, Lt Col Braithwaite. 20 Quatre Bras 16th June 1815, Lt Col Braithwaite. 21 March orders of force from Bagshot Heath to Cricket Hill, Lt Col Braithwaite. 22 Attack on IInd Japanese Army at Tai-shi-kiao, Lt Col Du Cane. 23 Attack on entrenched position. Draft operations orders for action of artillery, &c, Lt Col Du Cane. 24 Central Africa showing protectorates, Lt Col Banon. 25 2 maps of Nansham. 1. Defences. 2. Position of Japanese artillery, Lt Col Du Cane. 26 Show on map distribution of land forces of British Colonies & Protectorates, Lt Col Banon. 27 Cont. of no 23. As CGS of 3rd divn draft orders in accordance with para 3 Sp. Idea, also show positions of 2nd divn night of 7th March, Lt Col Braithwaite. 28 Road sketch, Lt Col Banon. 29 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Banon. 30 As Napoleon's C of S write appreciation of situation d/- Ligny 5am, 17.6.15, Lt Col Braithwaite. 31 State views of changes brought about in tactical employment or Arty in the field by smokeless powder, &c, Lt Col Du Cane. 32 Positions of Wellington & Napoleon 13.6.15, Lt Col Braithwaite. 33 Instns in writing report on unit to which attached during training with other arms, The Commandant. 34 Horseback sketch. Road sketch in case of withdrawal of force from position, Lt Col Banon. 35 Positions of Wellington's army 16, 17, 18-6-15, Lt Col Braithwaite. 36 Shu-shan-po position, Lt Col Du Cane. 37 State views of lessons of S.A & Manchurian wars as regards entrenching in the field, Lt Col Du Cane. 38 Memo on system of providing drafts for army abroad, Lt Col Banon. 39 Plane-table sketch, Lt Col Banon. 40 Compare Wellington's conduct of defence at Waterloo with principles in C.T.Secs 123-124, Lt Col Braithwaite. 41 Two maps for study of Valley campaign 1862, Lt Col Braithwaite. 42 Paper on incidents between outbreak of war and commencement of Valley campaign 1862, Lt Col Braithwaite. 43 i. sketch of camping area. ii. River reconnaissance, Lt Col Banon. 44 Horseback reconnaissance, Lt Col Banon. 45 Defence science. Dorking war anchorage, Lt Col Du Cane. 46 Selection of camping grounds, Lt Col Banon. 47 Outpost orders, &c, with sketch showing dispositions, Lt Col Braithwaite. 48 Instructions re visit to I of Wight, Lt Col Du Cane. 49 Syllabus of instruction in subject (D), Lt Col Du Cane. 50 Programme of visit to I of Wight, Lt Col Du Cane. 51 Seaward defences of Port Arthur, Lt Col Du Cane. 52 Quote paras of CT principles of which are illustrated by events of battle of Bull Run, Lt Col Braithwaite. 53 Billeting portion of Inf Divn on march, Lt Col Banon. 54 Selection of defensive position, with sketch and disposition of forces, Lt Col Braithwaite. 55 Panoramic sketch of enemy's position, Lt Col Banon. 56 Instructions for finishing sketches, Lt Col Banon. 57 Reconnaissance of position. Force orders for occupation, direction for counterstroke with artillery support, Lt Col Braithwaite. 58 Cont of No 43. Sketch showing billeting areas, Lt Col Banon. 59 Visit of divn to Woolwich Arsenal 2&3 July, Lt Col Du Cane. 60 Specimens of drawings of trees &c, Lt Col Banon, Lt Col Banon. 61 As SO to Genl Banks, appreciate situation on March 1st 1862, Lt Col Braithwaite. 62 Escorting convoy through enemy's country, write orders, sketch distribution &c, Lt Col Braithwaite. 63 Allotment of officers for tour, 25-26th July, The Commandant. 64 Describe system of army administration in India before Ld Kitchener's arrival & since, Lt Col Banon. 65 Rear guard action. Sketch of position, Lt Col Banon. 66 Discuss strategical lessons of campaign in Virginia between 24th March & 17th May 1862, Lt Col Braithwaite. 67 Tactical idea for work of 18th Bde FA for 13th July to be witnessed by divn, Lt Col Du Cane. 68 General & special ideas for No III party, Col Gough. 69 Outline sketch of enemy's position, Lt Col Banon. 70 Instructions re exams on 17, 23 & 24th July, Lt Col Du Cane. 71 Reconnaissance of area of country, Lt Col Banon. 72 General & special ideas & instns for No II Pty, Lt Col Du Cane. 73 General & special ideas & instns for No
VI Pty, Lt Col Banon. 74 General & special ideas & instns for No I Pty, Col Aston. 75 General & special ideas & instns for No IV Pty, Lt Col Stopford. 76 General & special ideas & instns for No V Pty, Lt Col Braithwaite. 77 Instns re visit to Okehampton in August, Lt Col Du Cane. 78 Syllabus of exams: topography, Lt Col Banon. 79 Syllabus of exams: Mil history, strategy, tactics, Lt Col Braithwaite. 80 Sketch of area of country, to show defensive position, disposition of the troops &c, Lt Col Banon. 81 6 questions on setting of maps, &c, Lt Col Banon. 82 1866 campaign. General & Germanic confederation, Lt Col Braithwaite. 83 Syllabus of instruction of Mil. Engineering, Lt Col Du Cane. 84 Report of facilities for forming supply depot for Army Corps subsisting on country, Lt Col Banon. 85 Discuss steps each side might have taken 15-20 June '63 to "mystify & mislead" adversary, Lt Col Braithwaite. 86 Report on formation &c if K of C of force adv. Depot, requestn of supplies, with garrisons, Lt Col Du Cane & Lt Col Banon. 87 NE frontier of Belgium-France-Germany, Lt Col Du Cane. 88 i. Operations on the Iser. ii. Operations up to 3rd July 1866, Lt Col Braithwaite. 89 Railway map Turkey in Asia, Lt Col Du Cane. 90 Summary of Moltke's projects for '66 campaign, Lt Col Braithwaite. 91 4 forms for use in obtaining supplies, Lt Col Banon. 92 Plan of Chitral Fort, Lt Col Du Cane. 93 Criticise generalship of P. Fred. Charles from advance of 1st & Elbe armies to 29th June, Lt Col Braithwaite. 94 Design works for section of entrenched camp. Lt Col Du Cane. 95 Give views as to how Arty & Engr units of siege trains shd be organised. RA & RA Offrs, Lt Col Du Cane. 96 Syllabus of instruction in Staff Duties, Lt Col Banon. 97 Duties of C's C, T of C station & adv. Depot, Lt Col Banon. 98 As Benedek's C of S appreciate situation at 7pm, 26th June 1866, Lt Col Braithwaite. 99 Russia defences Port Arthur (Erh Lung Shan &c), Lt Col Du Cane. 100 Write memo on supply & transport lessons of SA and Russo-Japanese wars, Lt Col Banon. 101 N Keikwansan Fort. Port Arthur, Lt Col Du Cane. 102 Amended syllabus - Military engineering, Lt Col Du Cane. 103 Attack on the entrenched camp, cont of No 94, Lt Col Du Cane. 104 Appreciate the situation from Austrian point of view d/- 10 pm, 27-6-66 (syndicates), Lt Col Braithwaite. 105 Map of organisation 12-6-1815, give proposals for organisation of field intelligence &c, Lt Col Banon. 106 Position of both armies evening 2 July 1866, Lt Col Braithwaite. 107 Encipher a message of not less than 25 words, Lt Col Banon. 108 Battle of Austerlitz. Translation from V Horsetzky, with map, Lt Col Braithwaite. 109 Definition & principles of martial law, Lt Col Banon. 110 Present war office system in India, Lt Col Banon. 111 Battlefield of Austerlitz 2nd Decr 1805, Lt Col Braithwaite. 112 Two maps of Salamanca with return of strength of British and allies at the battle, Lt Col Braithwaite.

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 War office scheme - 6 syndicates, The Commandant. 2 Books to read on Franco-German war, Col Perceval. 3 Skeleton general map, 1870, Col Perceval. 4 Railways in war, 1st lecture and tables showing military control of railways in European states, Lt Col Whigham. 5 Distribution and strength of fleets, Lt Col Harper. 6 Describe 1870 theatre of operations on E of Mocelle. Individual work, Col Perceval. 7 As officer of French GS, decide positions of German forces at start of 1870 war and proposed course of action for 2nd August. 10 syndicates, Lt Col Ross. 8 1st set of questions and answers for combination schemes. Directing staff and 10 syndicates, The Commandant. 9 Railways in 1870 campaign, with maps of railways used by French and Germans, Lt Col Whigham. 10 Reconnaissance of defended harbour with view to attack from land side.

10 syndicates, Col Perceval. 11 2nd combined scheme, with cipher message and specimen operation orders, The Commandant. 12 1st railway scheme, diagram, etc reqd, Lt Col Whigham. 13 Railway working for military traffic, Lt Col Whigham. 14 Battlefield tour April-May, Col Perceval. 15 Cavalry in co-operation with the other arms, and maps of Vauchamps and Ligny, Lt Col Barrow. 16 Cavalry lecture - German cavalry at commencement of Franco-German war, Lt Col Barrow. 17 Cavalry scheme No 1, Lt Col Barrow. 18 3rd combined scheme. (Specimen operation order attached), Col Gough. 19 Memoir for 1910, The Commandant. 20 Combined railway and embarkation scheme. General idea and 1st exercise, railway reconnaissance, Col Gough & Lt Col Whigham. 21 Franco-German war, scheme no 2. Discuss action de Failly should have taken, etc. 10 syndicates, Lt Col Ross. 22 Diagram of chain of command for disembarkation on an open beach, Col Gough. 23 Allez! Allez! No 4, Lt Col Harper. 24 Positions at Woerth, Col Perceval. 25 Railway scheme no 5. Continuation of no 20. Exercise 2, Lt Col Whigham. 26 Allez! Allez! No 5, Lt Col Furse. 27 Set an Allez! Allez! Scheme by syndicates, The Commandant. 28 Arrangements for disembarkation on an open beach, Captn Baird, RN. 29 Disembarkation scheme, part II. Continuation of no 10. Transport data and sketch map attached. 6 syndicates, Col Gough & Lt Col Harper. 30 Set of 3 [maps] to illustrate battle of Spicheren, Lt Col Ross. 31 Allez! Allez! No 6, Lt Col Ross.

32 Positions of forces night of 13.8.1870, Lt Col Ross. 33 Scheme No 3, 1870. Situation as on August 5th. Orders, etc, MacMahon should issue. Individual work, Col Perceval. 34 German cavalry in 1870, Lt Col Barrow. 35 Stocks of raw material and foodstuffs held, Lt Col Harper. 36 Combined railway and embarkation scheme, exercises 2 and 3. 8 syndicates, Col Gough and Lt Col Whigham. 37 Allez! Allez! No 7, Lt Col Barrow. 38 Combined naval and military staff tour, 4th-6th April. General idea; programme of work; and copy of reconnaissance of 1907. 4 parties and staffs, The Commandant. 39 Re foreign officers travelling in Germany, and laws dealing with espionage, Col Perceval. 40 Allez! Allez! No 8, Lt Col Hon G Morris. 41 Franco-German war, scheme No 4. 10 synds, Lt Col Ross. 42 Two [maps] to illustrate Battle of Gravelotte, Lt Col Furse.

43 Three [maps] for lectures "From Gravelotte to Sedan". Positions 24/28 Aug. Beaumont. Sedan, Lt Col Ross. 44 Allez! Allez! No 9, Lt Col Stewart. 45 German cavalry in 1870; syllabus of lecture and 3 sketches of cavalry movements, Lt Col Barrow. 46 Continuation of no 38; re-embarkation, (military), Col Gough. 47 Allez! Allez! No 10, Lt Col Hull. 48 Allez! Allez! No 11, Lt Col Whigham. 49 General and special ideas and instructions for 2nd combined naval and military staff tour. 10 parties, The Commandant. 50 Officers to draw up schemes for junior division staff tour. 8 parties under A; 8 parties under B, The Commandant. 51 Exercise in setting a tactical scheme, Col Perceval. 52 Tactical Allez! Allez! Scheme No 1, Col Perceval. 53 Intelligence lecture and tables for intelligence force, etc, Col Gough.

54 General and special ideas, staff tour, May 31-June 3. 4 parties. Part I, appreciations etc, The Commandant. 55 Specimen forms in connection with lecture on administrative reconnaissance, Col Foster. 56 Reconnaissance and administrative scheme for 6th. 6 parties, Col Foster. 57 Cavalry Allez! Allez! No 2. 5 parties, Lt Col Barrow. 58 Students to prepare Allez! Allez! Scheme. Half division, 8 parties. Conference full division on 22nd, The Commandant. 59 Allez! Allez! Scheme No 3, 5 parties, Lt Col Ross. 60 Part I (individual work); minute describing suggested operations; Part II 'Order of Battle' etc; Part III special idea or actual exercise, with rough sketch map, The Commandant & Lt Col Stewart. 61 Lecture - protective cavalry, Lt Col Barrow. 61a Cavalry scheme, No 2, Lt Col Barrow. 62 The NW frontier of India, with sketch map, Lt Col Stewart. 63 Mountain warfare, Lt Col Stewart. 64 Communication scheme, with wireless telegraph co: 4 parties, AH.Qrs and 3 divisions, Lt Col Harper. 65 Train arrangements for Welsh staff tour, Col Foster.

66 Tables, order of battle, establishments etc for Welsh staff tour, Lt Col Stewart. 67 Tactical Allez! Allez! No 4. 12 parties, Lt Col Furse. 68 General and special ideas for staff tour, 13-15th July. 1st ex: appreciations, The Commandant. 69 Allez! Allez! No 5. 7 parties, Lt Col Ross. 70 Cavalry scheme; individual work, Lt Col Greenly. 71 Allez! Allez! Scheme no 6, 5 parties, Lt Col Furse. 72 Supply and medical arrangements, part I, 5 syndicates, Col Foster. 73 Tactical reconnaissance, 3 syndicates, The Commandant. 74 Re report while attached to other arms, The Commandant. 75 Analysis of peace establishments, squadron of Br: cavalry, Lt Col Whigham. 76 General and special ideas for inspection staff tour of 10/12th October. Appreciations as commander of Brown or White army. 1st exercise, The Commandant. 77 Ceremonial scheme; 6 syndicates, Lt Col Whigham.

78 Ammunition and supply vehicles in the field. Move table, supply units: daily ration table (specimens), Col Foster. 79 Tactical exercise - 6 syndicates, Col Perceval. 80 Manchurian campaign. Scheme A. Discuss Japanese plan of campaign, Col Perceval. 81 Set of 5 schemes for 5 syndicates: 1, to show French officers comm.. services. 2, inspection of brigade. 3, examination in tactical fitness. 4, cavalry brigade operations. 5, public schools training corps field day, The Commandant. 82 Manchurian campaign, scheme B: as General Mischenko, appreciate situation 3.5.'04, Lt Col Furse. 83 Japanese mobilization R-J War, Lt Col Hull. 84 Russian mobilization R-J War, Lt Col Hull. 85 Russian and Japanese staff systems, Lt Col Whigham. 86 Battle of the Yalu, Lt Col Furse. 87 Manchurian campaign, scheme C. Explain causes which led to failure of General Kuropatkin's plan before Liao Yang. 12 syndicates, Lt Col Ross. 88 Railways in the Russo-Japanese war, Lt Col Bols. 89 Cavalry scheme - attack, Lt Col Barrow. 90 Approximate situation in Manchuria, 8.6.'04, Lt Col Furse. 91 Battle of Talissu, Lt Col Furse. 92 [Maps] to illustrate advance to, and Battle of Liao-Yang, Lt Col Ross. 93 Lecture, cavalry in Manchuria, Lt Col Barrow. 94 Lecture, naval operations Manchurian campaign, Captn Drury-Lowe, RN. 95 Allez! Allez! Cavalry division covering march of an army northwards, Lt Col Whigham. 96 Belgian railways, Lt Col Bols. 97 Belgian scheme, Pt I. Appreciations etc, The Commandant. 98 Jubaland scheme, Pt I. Suggested scheme of operations, Col Gough.

99 Distribution of Belgian army, Lt Col Hoskins. 100 draft circular letter re "reserves", The Commandant. 101 English and German cavalry formations, Lt Col Greenly. 102 Lists of parties for war game, Col Perceval. 103 Cavalry scheme. As C-in-C of blue mobilized forces say what is required of cavalry division and mounted troops, Lt Col Greenly. 104 Home defence Pt I. Memo for CID of adequacy of home defence arrangements, Lt Col Harper. 105 [Tables] to explain wall diagrams: march and supply of proportion of A. Tps and 3 divisions, Col Foster. 106 Home defence, Pt II. 6 syndicates, Lt Col Harper. 107 Distribution of naval forces, Captn Drury-Lowe, RN. 108 Some cavalry maxims, Lt Col Barrow. 109 India, Lt Col Stewart.

110 Afghanistan, Lt Col Stewart. 111 Persia, Lt Col Stewart. 112 Discuss principles governing employment of machine guns in war, Lt Col Hoskins. 113 Russia in Asia, Lt Col Stewart. 114 Lake's marches in pursuit of Holkar, Lt Col Barrow. 115 Scheme for writing orders for night operations. 10 syndicates, Col Perceval. 116 Jubaland scheme Pt II. 8 syndicates, Lt Col Gough. 117 [Maps] to illustrate lecture on Cromwell's cavalry, Lt Col Greenly. 118 Tactical exercise in night operations. 6 syndicates, Lt Col Hon G Morris. 119 Establishment, work etc of Record Office, Lt Col Hull. 120 Establishments and Wajheir flying column, Col Gough.

Letter from Richard Cobden of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, London [from embossed stamp on paper] to M Jules le Chevalier St Andre, 29 May 1860. Headed: 'Private'. Referring to an article by M Mornand, drawn to his attention by Le Chevalier St Andre: 'The word "impuissance" is very insulting and very dangerous when applied to my country'. He warns France against 'the idea of England being less powerful in compassion with France than in former time,' and continues: 'New and henceforth supremacy at sea must depend entirely on steam power. " Our tonnage in sailing vessels as compared with France is at least 5 to 1 But the horse power of our steam mercantile marine as compared with yours is about 30 to 1.' He concludes: 'You know how I hate this topic. But depend on it England was never so much to be dreaded in a maritime war as at present.'

Autograph, with signature. The letter paper is inverted.

With the original envelope, on which the following later note has been added: 'Mille compliments à Monsieur E. Dentu. Ceci est l'autograph de Mr Cobden que je lui ai promise mais comme elle traite d'un sujet politique du moment, je désire qu'elle reste sous ce pli et ne soit communiquée à personne du vivant de Mr. Cobden.' On the dorse, above the broken seal: 'Décacheté: - le dimanche 30 avril 1869. E.D.'

Photocopy of account of activities of No 1 Company Indian and Malay Corps (No 101 South African Reserve Motor Transport Company), Aug 1940- July 1941; including training in Kenya, Sep-Dec 1940, return to South Africa, Dec 1940, following decision to make the Company 100% Indian, active service in Somaliland Campaign Feb-Aug 1941.

Papers of Sir James Paterson Ross, mid 20th century, comprising a St Barthlomew's Hospital notebook [?], containg addresses; information relating to the rebuilding of the Royal College of Surgeons of England after World War Two bomb damage; a card allowing Ross to remove packages without inspection, 1941; a letter thanking Ross for his lectures on the Nervous System, 15 Jul 1942; printed notes on 'Enemy Gas Attacks'; and a reprint of The Physician's Testimony for Christ by Andrew Clark, an address originally delivered in 1890.

Notebooks and papers of Benjamin Robins, consisting of a miscellaneous notebook primarily on gunnery and fortification (MS 39), a commonplace book (MS 46), a box of miscellaneous papers (MS 130) and a letter to Martin Folkes enclosing a written message from the Chevalier Ossorio, Envoy from the King of Sardinia, on the proper charge of cannon (MS 139).

Papers, 1940-1942 and undated, of Margaret Temple relating to the Ethiopian royal family, comprising three signed typescript letters to her, 1940-1942, from Fairfield, Bath, and from the Imperial Palace, Addis Ababa, including one from Haile Selassie, the subjects including care of the children, the situation in Italy, and air raids on Bath; four undated photographs of the royal family and an undated photograph of a building, possibly Fairfield.

Hymn sheet in German, used in a memorial service in March 1939 at Potters Bar Cemetery.

Notebooks comprising lists of air-raid warnings in London, giving details of times, dates and areas affected, with related newspaper cuttings pasted in.

'Low level Beaufighters over Burma: a review of the low level attacks carried out during September by 27 and 177 Beaufighter Squadrons', an official report including photographs and map, written by Baldwin in 1943.

Papers relating to Beaufoy Brown's life and RN career, 1925-1979, including scrapbook with newspaper cuttings and fifty five photographs, Aug 1927-Jul 1929, including Atlantic Fleet exercises, 1927, the loss of HM Submarine H47, off St David's Head, Pembrokeshire, following collision with HM Submarine L12, 9 Jul 1929, and photographs of HMS REVENGE, HMS FORRES, HMS RODNEY, HMS HOOD, HMS NELSON and HMS ADVENTURE, 1927-1929. Two Midshipman's journals, 26 Aug 1927-12 Jul 1930, relating to service on HM Ships REVENGE, RODNEY and WALKER, including manuscript sketches and maps, two photographs of the main armament of HMS RODNEY, and photograph of HMS CENTURION, RN radio-controlled target ship, Portland, Dorset, Nov 1928, with twelve loose photographs, 1925-1929, including HMS RODNEY, HMS STURGEON and group of Cadets, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, 1925. Typescript report by Beaufoy Brown on the visit to Malta of the Yugoslav training ship JADRAN, 9-11 Jul 1934. Papers and photographs relating to the development and deployment of X craft midget submarines and Chariot manned torpedoes, 1943-[1950], including sixty seven photographs relating to the training of crews for X craft midget submarine operations, 1943-1945, notably six aerial photographs, taken by 544 Sqn, RAF, of Bergen harbour, Norway, before and after Operation GUIDANCE, the sinking by X Craft of German merchant ship BARENFELS, Apr 1944, and Operation HECKLE, the destruction of a floating dock, Laksvaag, Bergen, Norway, Sep 1944; edition of The Illustrated London News, 15 Dec 1945, with article on X Craft operation against Japanese cruiser TAKAO, Singapore, Jul 1945; edition of The Dittybox, the Navy's own magazine, containing article by G V Galwey entitled 'Life in a midget submarine', Feb 1948; typescript text of lecture by Beaufoy Brown on World War Two midget submarine operations [1950]. Photograph album containing 111 photographs relating to Beaufoy Brown's service as Executive Officer, HMS GAMBIA, Mediterranean and East Indies, 1951-1952, including peace keeping patrols, Port Said, Egypt, 1951, and inspection of ship by acting Adm Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Commnder-in-Chief Mediterranean, Malta, 1952. Typescript Curriculum Vitae for Beaufoy Brown [1965], and obituary, 1979.

Account of his work as Scientific Adviser, Combined Operations, in relation to D-Day, covering the period 5-8 June 1944, France.

Copies of papers relating to her work as an WRNS administrator at Bletchley Park Decoding Centre, notably two drafts of a text on WRNS at Bletchley Park, [1945], an account of the employment of WRNS at Bletchley Park and outstations, [1945]; copy photograph of Blagrove and her assistant Doreen Scott, [1944], and photocopies of photographs of buildings and WRNS personnel at Walton Hall, Wavenden, Gayhurst and Eastcote, 1944-1945; copies of papers relating to a reunion of ex-HMS PEMBROKE V WRNS personnel, 1978, notably a text of Blagrove's speech on HMS PEMBROKE V and an attendance list; copy of obituary from The Wren, Jun 1979.

Detailed memoir, 'I'd live it again', covering his life and military career, 1898-1945, notably his service in France, 1918, Egypt, 1919-1921 and 1939-1941 and East Africa, 1941-1942, written in 1947 and privately published in pamphlet form.

Copies of two reports on actions of 9 Armoured Bde Group during the second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt, Oct-Nov 1942.

Papers of Ivor Bowen, 1926-1973, relating to his career in aeronautics, comprising manuscript volume entitled 'Bomb and Bombsight figures'; photographs, some captioned, relating to a long haul flight to Singapore, 1946, including exterior and interior details of plane and an aerial view of Singapore; Air Ministry Laboratory report, 'Bomb ballistics experiments, Orfordness, 1926', written by L C Bygrave and Ivor Bowen, including aerial photographs, photographs of recording equipment, bomb at moment of release, cine film stills of explosion, detailed technical drawings of recording equipment and periscopic bomb sight, and graphs of time lags, trail angles and fall times of bombs; publications relating to aeronautics including Air Ministry manuals, chiefly on air navigation, 1926-1941; typescript draft handbook, 'Aircraft compass installations', by C S Hudson, for publication by HMSO, [1949]; patents issued to General Precision Laboratory, USA, 1956-1959; lecture text, 'The development of visual landing for flight simulators' by G M Hellings, Chief Scientist, General Precision Systems Ltd, Oct 1961; technical product descriptions including for Miniature Inertial Navigation System (MINS), produced by Kearfott Division, USA and Kearfott C702519001 floated rate-integrating gyro, Aug 1962; performance data for floated rate-integrating gyro King II, produced by Kearfott Division, USA, Dec 1962; offprint articles on aeronautics, 1962; memoranda and minutes of meetings of the Air League, 1963-1973; 'Unservile State Papers, no 15: A Defence for Britain' by Anthony Paice, Liberal Publication Dept, [1966]; letter from I J Bettison, General Equipments Ltd, Adelaide, Australia, 3 Jun 1963, on selling flight simulation training systems; and 'extracts from the technical supplement to the annual report of the Aeronautical Research Council', 1 Apr 1965.

Photocopy of a report on role of engineers of Far East Land Forces in Borneo, 1963, following the Brunei rebellion, 1962; and photocopy of a directive relating to recruitment and training within the Engineering Corps, 1968.

Photographs of landscape, towns and local Pathans, North West Frontier, India [1930-1936]; photographs of civilian engineering training, UK, 1934-1936; diary, 1939-1940, narrative of service as Engineer Staff Officer and Field Engineer, Rawalpindi and Staff Officer Royal Engineers 3, Delhi; diary, 1957-1959, narrative of service as Chief Engineer, Far East Land Forces. Photographs of official duties as Chief Engineer, Northern Army Group NATO and British Army of the Rhine, 1959-1962.

Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers vol 157, containing three articles on developments in internal combustion engines and gas turbines including 'The Development of Gas Turbine Power Plants for Traction Purposes in Germany' by Bright, 1947.

British Army publications, 1963-2004. Volumes of the Army Field Manual including: 'The Armoured Division in Battle' (1990); 'Infantry Operations' (1990); 'Combat Service Support' (1992); 'Background to the Soviet Army' (1986); 'A Treatise on Soviet Operational Art' (1991); 'Soviet Tactics' (1991); 'Generic Enemy (Basic Forces): Operational Art' (1995); 'Operations in Specific Environments: Urban Operations' (1999); 'Battlegroup Tactics' (1990); 'The Infantry Battalion in Battle' (1990); 'Operations within the UK: Military Home Defence' (1990); 'Fighting in Built-up Areas' (1983); 'Chemical Operations' (1990); 'Cold Climate Operations' (1992); 'All Arms Tactics in Special Environments: Desert' (1995); 'Operations Other than War: Counter Insurgency Operations' (1995), 'Peacekeeping Operations' (1988) and 'Wider Peacekeeping' (1994); 'Combined Arms Operations: Formation Tactics' (1995 and 2002 Dec editions), 'Battlegroup Tactics' (1998 and 2002 Feb editions), 'Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR)' (2002 Mar), 'Countersurveillance, Opsec [operations security] and Deception' (1999 Oct), 'Operations in Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Conditions' (2002 Oct), 'Training for Operations' (1997), 'Command and Staff Procedures' (1999 and 2002 editions) and 'Tactical Guidance for Operations Other than War' (2000).

Tactical and Doctrinal publications including: 'Keeping the Peace: Doctrine' (1963 Jan); 'Tactical Doctrine and Arms Directorate: The Army Tactical Doctrine Handbook' (1985) and 'Tactical Aide Memoire' (1988); 'Joint Warfare Publication: British Defence Doctrine' (1996); 'Design for Military Operations: the British Military Doctrine' (1996); 'Army Doctrine Handbook' (2000 Jul); 'Land Component Handbook: doctrinal notes' (2004 Nov); 'Army Doctrine Publications: Command' (1995 Apr), 'Logistics' (1996 Jun and 2000 Apr editions), 'Training' (1996 Dec), and 'Soldiering - the Military Covenant' (2000 Feb).

Land Operations manuals including: 'The Fundamentals Part 1: the application of force', 'Part 2: command and control', 'Part 3: the combat arms' and 'Part 4: fire support' (1968 -1977); 'Non Nuclear Operations Part 1: formation tactics', 'Part 2: battle group tactics', 'Part 3: combat team tactics in mechanised operations', 'Part 4: crossing and breaching obstacles' and 'Part 5: air defence of the field army' (1971-1977); 'Counter-Revolutionary Operations Part 1: general principles', 'Part 2: procedures and techniques', 'Part 2: internal security' (1969 version) and 'Part 3: counter insurgency' (1969-1977); 'Nuclear Operations Part 1: nuclear fire power' and 'Part 2: tactics' (1970-1971); 'Operational Techniques Under Special Conditions Part 1: mountainous country', 'Part 2: jungle', 'Part 3: desert', 'Part 4: cold climate' (1972-1979).

Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs) including: 'Army Formation Standing Operating Procedures (AFSOPs)' (1989); 'UK Land Forces: Formation Standing Operating Procedures' (1989 Jul); '1 British Corps: Standing Operating Procedures' (1991 Jan) and 'Land Component Handbook (Formation SOPs)' (2000 Sept).

Handbooks, guidebooks and manuals including: 'Administration in the Field' (MOD, 1975); 'Umpiring the Effects of Artillery Fire: A Guide for Umpires of All Arms' (1981); 'Administration in War', (MOD, 1984); 'Medical Interoperability Handbook' (German/English version) (1986 Feb); 'Data Protection Act 1984: A Guide to the Act' (MOD, 1987 Aug); 'Manual of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Training on Land' (1988); 'Staff Officers Handbook' (1988); 'Unit Guide to the Administration of Personnel in War' (1989); 'Instructions for the Handling of Prisoners of War' (MOD, 1990); 'The Manual of Joint Warfare Volume VIII (JSP 7): Military Psychological Operations' (1992); 'Unit Battlefield Countersurveillance' (1994 Jun); 'Generic Enemy (Genforce) Handbook: Rest of the World Enemy (ROWEN)' (1995); 'Military Aid to the Civil Community in the United Kingdom' (1997); 'Generic Enemy (Genforce) Handbook: Mobile Forces' (1997); 'Staff Officers' Handbook' (2000 Jul); 'ABCA: Coalition Logistics Handbook' (Quadripartite Advisory Publication, 2003 Jun).

Training guides including: 'Training for War: the Principles and Organisation of Training, Individual Training, Collective Training and Territorial Army' (1981).

Publications by other military forces including: 'On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom', by Col G Fontenot, LTC EJ Degen and LTC D Tohn (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004); Royal Netherlands Army Doctrine Publications: 'Military Doctrine' (1996), 'Combat Operations Against an Irregular Force' (2003), and 'Peace Operations' (1999).

Papers relating to early career, including material on early aviation, 1911-1913, and texts of lectures given at the RAF Staff College, Andover, 1922-1926. Material relating to post as Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq, 1928-1935, including correspondence, memoranda and telegrams relating to operations in Iraq and Kuwait, 1928-1930, and negotiations for the Anglo-Iraq Treaty, 1930; news cuttings and notes relating to political and military affairs in Iraq, and the situation of the Assyrians and Kurds, 1930-1935. Papers created as Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Air Defence of Great Britain, 1933-1935, mainly relating to a Royal Review of the RAF at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Papers relating to post as Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Middle East, notably memoranda, cypher signals, letters and notes, 1931-1936, relating to RAF operations, mainly planning and preparation for the possibility of war between the League of Nations and Italy following the Italian invasion and annexation of Abyssinia; correspondence with ACM Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, Chief of Air Staff, 1935-1936; memoranda, telegrams, correspondence and newscuttings on operational matters relating to the Arab Rebellion against the British Mandate in Palestine, 1936; material collated by Brooke-Popham for lectures on the Middle East, 1930, 1936; correspondence, memoranda and minutes relating to the formation and working of an Executive Committee on Assyrian Settlement, 1943-1947. Papers relating to the creation and implementation of the Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada and South Africa, 1939-1945, including personal correspondence with Arthur William Street, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Air, 1940. Papers relating to post as Commander in Chief, Far East, notably telegrams and memoranda relating to the requirements of the RAF and Army in the Far East, 1940-1949; personal correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Hastings Lionel Ismay, Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1940-1941; semi-official correspondence with Street, 1940-1941; material relating to the replacement of Brooke-Popham as Commander in Chief, Far East, Nov 1941; telegrams relating to reconnaissance sightings of Japanese convoys, the decision not to launch Operation MATADOR, the outbreak of war with Japan, and the sinking of RN battleships HMS PRINCE OF WALES and HMS REPULSE, Dec 1941; papers, correspondence and proofs relating to the publication of various despatches and reports concerning operations in Malaya, 1941-1947. Papers created whilst Inspector General of the Air Training Corps, 1942-1947, 1950-1952, mainly comprising inspection reports and material relating to the post-war organisation of the Air Training Corps. Booklets, memoranda, and reports collated by Brooke-Popham relating to RAF training, policy and operations, [1914]-1946. Material relating to research for and writing of articles, lectures and pamphlets, mainly relating to history, aviation or training, 1923-1952. Printed material, 1890-1953, mainly relating to aviation. Maps and photographs, 1917-[1945], including aerial photographs of the Western Front during World War One, 1917-1918.

Papers and photographs of Lt Christopher Michael Cadogan from his service on the 'Hopkinson Mission', May-Jun 1940, principally comprising an album of photographs taken by John Gabriel of the Hopkinson Mission in Belgium and the Dunkirk evacuation, featuring photos from the Hopkinson Mission of refugees, military personnel and events taken at Valenciennes, Warve, Aalst, St Trond, Neelanden, Waterloo, near Terneuzen, Gennape, Enghien, Beuvry, Douai, near Orchies, Armentieres, Dunkirk, Ypres, Ostend and photographs from the Dunkirk evacuation including of SS AKUBIR and SS MARQUIS; Cadogan's typescript "War Diary" 10-29 May 1940 as composed Oct 1940 covering the period of the Hopkinson Mission's operations until evacuation from Ostend, with handwritten comments and annotations by 'JPG' [probably John Gabriel]; typescript edition of Cadogan's pre-war letters and his war diary of 1940, edited by his widow, Stella Zilliacus.

Papers and photographs relating to Caunter's career, 1908-[1960], including one photograph album, containing 90 photographs, newspaper cuttings and invitations, 1908-1933, notably photographs of Crefeld POW camp, Germany, 1916, Caunter's return to UK following his escape from Schwarmstedt POW camp, Germany, 1917, group photographs of officers, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1922-1923 and Senior Officers Course, Hythe, Kent, 1927, with thirty five loose photographs, 1909-1941, including Salonika, 1918, Iraq, 1920-1921, Egypt, 1936, and Western Desert, Libya, 1941. Papers relating to the First Libyan Campaign, Western Desert, 1940-1941, and Caunter's command of 4 Armoured Bde in the capture of Fort Capuzzo, Battle of Beda Fomm, Libya, Feb 1941, including typescript memorandum by Caunter entitled 'Notes on the disposal of prisoners captured by AFV (Armoured Fighting Vehicle) units', 1 Oct 1940; two typescript 7 Armoured Div intelligence summaries, Dec 1940; typescript memorandum by Caunter entitled 'Some lessons from the campaign', [1941]; typescript account entitled 'The story of the 4th Armoured Brigade in the First Libyan campaign', Western Desert, 1940-1941; two letters from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, dated Jan 1947 and Dec 1951, relating to Caunter's deployment of armoured forces in the Battle of Beda Fomm, Western Desert, Feb 1941. Memoranda and reports relating to Caunter's service as Brig General Staff and Deputy Director of Staff Duties, Armoured Troops, General Headquarters, India, 1941-1943, including typescript memorandum by Caunter, 'Defence of the North West Frontier of India and appreciation' [1942]; typescript report by Lt Col Rothwell H Brown, US Army, 'Report of conditions noted in armoured units and ordnance establishments by the US Army Tank Training Detachment', 10 Nov 1942; edition of Tanks and tank folk by Eric Kennington (Country Life, London, 1943).

Papers of Sir Geoffrey Chandler: reports, correspondence and publications relating to Greece 1944-1949, including reports by field personnel, Maj Ronald R Prentice and Maj T C Johnson, on the situation in the Macedonia and Pajko areas, Greece, 1945; reports to Force 133 Headquarters Greece and press reviews from AIS (later Anglo Greek Information Service), Salonika for the Macedonia region, 19 Nov 1944-28 Dec 1945; reports from Anglo Greek Information Service (AGIS), Corinth, Jan-Mar 1945; reports from AGIS, Florina, Apr-Nov 1945; 1944-1945; reports and press reviews from the Information Department, Salonika, Aug 1946-1947 Aug; Geoffrey Chandler's correspondence as press officer, British Embassy, Salonika, Aug-Nov 1946; typescript report on Greece, Oct-Nov 1949, by Chandler; Ministry of Information publications and pamphlets on Greece (Greek, English and French), 1938-1952, notably relating to the political situation in Greece and charitable appeals for relief of Greek people and map of Macedonia and surrounding area 'Grece du Nord: zones des groupes d'observation', scale 1:1,000,000, United Nations map number 134 (F), Aug 1948.

Papers relating to Darlow's service with the Royal Army Service Corps and in Staff appointments, 1942-1966, including correspondence and memoranda relating to Darlow's training, appointments and promotions, 1942-1964; typescript memoranda entitled 'The art of lecturing', from the Middle East Royal Army Service Corps Training School, Dec 1943; copy of War Diary for No 1 Line of Communication Transport Column, Royal Army Service Corps, Italy, 1 Jan-31 Dec 1944, with copies of No 1 Lines of Communication Transport Column instructions, battle orders and memoranda, 31 May-16 Dec 1944; 'Staff Officer's notebook' containing typescript notes on motor transport, supply, personnel, Staff and Regimental duties, aircraft loading procedures and Army organisation, 1944, and Dec 1955; typescript article by Darlow on inter-service co-operation, written for The Waggoner magazine, 1957; typescript lecture by Darlow on recruitment, delivered at the Royal Army Service Corps School, 24 Jan 1963. Three editions of The Crusader, Eighth Army Weekly, 9 Nov 1942, 25 Jan 1943 and 8 Mar 1943; photocopied extracts from Engineers in the Italian campaign 1943-1945 by Lt Col D C Bailey (Printing and Stationery Services, Central Mediterranean Forces, Rome, Italy, 1945); copy of article by Lt Col Patrick Mawbey Edgell, Royal Army Service Corps, entitled 'Aid to Russia convoys on the Persian L of C (Line of Communication)', from The Royal Army Service Corps Review, 1950; article entitled 'The new Inspector RCT (Royal Corps of Transport) and Deputy Transport Officer in Chief (Army), Brigadier E W T Darlow, OBE, MA', published in The Waggoner, 1966. Correspondence, chiefly with the Public Record Office, London, and the Royal Engineers Library, Chatham, Kent, 1991-1993, relating to Darlow's research on the Royal Army Service Corps in Italy, 1944-1945, with brief notes on his command of No 1 Lines of Communication Transport Column, 1944, copies of published maps on the Italian campaign, and an edition of War Office restricted publication 'RASC training memorandum No 3', written in part by Darlow; Dec 1946.

Papers relating to 8 Army operations in Western Desert and Battle of El Alamein, 1941-1942, in particular Operations LIGHTFOOT, SUPERCHARGE and GRAPESHOT, including maps, memoranda and plans; 21 Army Group, Operation OVERLORD, 1944 including notes of operations, Jun 1944-May 1945; report on Operation BLACKCOCK, attack by 12 Corps at Roermond, Jan 1945; surrender by German forces, May 1945 including plans for administration of enemy territory and troops. Excerpts from German wireless messages, 1941-1943. Printed material, including messages from Montgomery, General Officer Commanding 8 Army, Nov 1942-Jan 1944 and as Commander-in- Chief, 21 Army Group, Jun 1944-Aug 1945; personal messages from Supreme Commander, SHAEF, 1944; handbooks and pamphlets, Dec 1942-Dec 1944; limited circulation newspapers, 1943 and 1945, including 'Eighth Army News'; operational reports, 1945, including 79 Armoured Division, 21 Army Group and Allied Expeditionary Force.

The collection consists primarily of master copies and research papers for Dean's book on the RAF, The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979). The research papers contain Dean's correspondence on aspects of RAF history with leading RAF personnel of the period before and during World War Two, in particular with ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris with comments by him on the text of Dean's book, particularly on sections relating to Bomber Command. There is also a correspondence between Harris and MRAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal over the issue of bombing targets. Also included are extensive research notes from Public Record Office files and from secondary sources. The collection includes a paper written by Dean on dynamics and optics, 1928; papers relating to the development of airships and the crash of the R101 airship dating from Dean's initial period at the Air Ministry, 1929-1943; texts of lectures and seminars relating to the Civil Service given by Dean at the University of Strathclyde and other colleges and entries and related papers compiled by Dean for the Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford).

Manuscript narrative diary relating to Dewing's service as Director of Military Operations, War Office, and as Chief of Staff to ACM Sir (Henry) Robert (Moore) Brooke-Popham, Commander-in-Chief Far East, 1939-1941; two typescript narrative diaries relating to Dewing's service as Head of Army and Air Liaison Staff, Australia, 1943-1944, and as Head of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) Mission to Denmark, 1944-1945, with typescript 'Notes on my relations with Swedish Services and Government' [1945]; typescript biographical account of Dewing's career by his son, William Dewing [1979].

The papers cover the period 1914-1965 and include papers relating to service in England, France and with British Army of the Rhine, 1914-1919 in particular 35 Division Artillery Signals; Iraq, including diary, 1920-1921; Nigeria, including field message book, 1924; Quetta, India, including earthquake diary, 1935; newspapers covering death of King George V, 1936; command of Northern Rhodesia Regt, Lusaka, 1937-1940, including scrap albums; command of 26 (East African) Infantry Brigade, East Africa and Abyssinia, 1940- 1941, including operation reports; command of 22 (East African) Infantry Brigade, Madagascar, 1942, including operation reports; command of 28 (East African) Infantry Brigade and 11 (East African) division, Burma and India, 1944-1946 including accounts of operations; General Officer Commanding East Africa, 1946- 1948, including official circulars, speeches and addresses; General Officer Commanding Aldershot Command, 1948-1951, including speeches and lectures; Representative on Military Staff Committtee, United Nations, 1951-1953, including diary; Col Commandant of Northern Rhodesia Regiment, King's African Rifles and Kenya Regiment, including correspondence, 1952-1964, committee papers and publications; papers relating to Army Cadet Force Association including minutes of meetings, 1956-1959; Inter-Parliamentary Union, including account of journey to Warsaw, Poland, 1959; maps, 1914-1943, including Western Front, Iraq and India, Nigeria and Madagascar.

Papers of Sir Derek Dodson, 1935-1986, relating to his service in Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Greece and Italy, comprising papers including message books, notes, reports and correspondence related to service in the Allied Military Mission to Greece, Sep 1943-Mar 1945; messages, notes, and diary relating to service with partisans in Italy, Apr-May 1945; photographs of Dodson; maps of Greece, Italy and France; report by the Salonika Bureau, 'The Macedonian Autonomy Movement in North West Greece: its setting and recent histor', Oct 1945.

Copies of papers relating to his life and career, 1921-1986, dated 1940, [1944], [1960-1970], 1986, notably including notes taken on a mountain warfare course, Abbottabad, India, Apr 1940; his Royal Ulster Rifles Historical Record, giving personal details and a career summary, 1921-1959, dated [1960-1970]; copy photographs of Donlea, 1935, and 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles with Gen Sir Law Bernard Montgomery, [1944].

Papers and photographs relating to Ebbutt's career, 1944-1946, including Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer's notebook containing manuscript accounts and technical notes on shore bombardment and targets engaged by ships lying off southernFrance, 1944-1945; Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer's diary, 1944-1945; notebook with manuscript notes by British Naval LiaisonOfficer [1944], with three photographs of a RN destroyer (Pennant number, G86). Printed booklet in French entitled 'La Première DivisionFrançaise Libre' [1945]. Citation of the award of the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star to Ebbutt, and related papers, 1945. Photograph of Ebbutt receiving the US Legion of Merit from US Col Claude M Thiele, Commanding Officer, US Army London Area Office, 1946, with related papers 1945. Copy of published booklet Soldier, sailor, compiled by Geoffrey Sanders (The Bombardment Units Association, Gloucester, 1946).

Papers created or collected by Edmonds during the course of his life and career, dated 1827-1838, 1852, 1879-1881, 1890-1957, principally comprising typescript memoirs covering his life and career, 1861-1951, and notably concerning his work at the Royal Military Academy, 1890-1896, and in the Intelligence Division of the War Office, 1899-1901, 1904-1908, his service in South Africa, 1901-1902, and in World War One, 1914-1918, at the Geneva Conference, 1906, as General Staff Officer, 4 Div, 1911-1914, and in the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1919-1949, written in [1951]; correspondence with Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 1922-1954, relating to Churchill's book The World Crisis, 1911-1918 (Thornton Butterworth, London,1923-1929, abridged and revised, 1931); letters from FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig and his wife, 1903-1939, mainly relating to Edmonds' work on the official history of World War One; correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Ernest (Dunlop) Swinton, 1919-1950; texts of lectures,[1908-1947], notably relating to the American Civil War, 1861-1865, laws of war and the organisation of intelligence and information in warfare; typescript and printed articles, 1893-1957, mainly relating to World War One; official army handbooks and reports by Edmonds and others, 1899-1918, 1945; papers related to World War One collected by Edmonds, dated 1900, 1907, 1914-[1945]; presscuttings, [1906-1943], mainly concerning political and military developments and international relations; photographs, 1895-1918, mainly of Edmonds with Army colleagues.

Papers relating to his military career, dated 1946-[1984], notably including typescript account of service of No 1 Independent Infantry Company, Malaya, 1941-1942, dated [1946-1984]; typescript account of experiences of 5 Bn, 14 Punjab Regt in Japanese POW camps, 1942-1945, including details of their work on the Burma Railway, written in [1946-1984]; typescript memoir of Fearon's military career, 1929-1947, written by his wife Diana Fearon in [1984].

Bound typescript histories of Tank Corps battalions, brigades and groups during World War One, 1914-1918, written by Tank Corps personnel in [1918-1919]. Bound volumes of official correspondence, reports, memoranda, notes, maps, photographs, operation orders, summaries of information and other papers concerning tank strategy and tactics, 1916-1918, the Battle ofCambrai, 1917, and Tanks Corps operations, 1914-1918, dated 1917-1919. Correspondence between Fuller, M Mitzakis and various military personnel relating to the use of Canal Defence Light (CDL) tanks during World War Two, 1939-1945, dated 1946. Other papers relating to his life and military career, [1889]-1965, including letters to his parents, 1897-1921, notably covering his service in SouthAfrica, 1899-1902, and in World War One, 1914-1918; narrative diaries covering his service in South Africa, 1901-1902, and World War One, 1914-1915; book agreements, 1919, 1956-1965; correspondence with publishers, 1956, 1961-1965; newspaper cuttings, 1945, 1952, 1965-1966, including obituaries of Fuller, 1966; papers relating to the occult, notably including letters from Aleister Crowley, 1905-[1924], and manuscript and typescript texts by Fuller and others, 1910, 1926, [1930] and 1966. Bound typescript text on Gen (William) Edmund Ironside, mainly consisting of extracts from Ironside's letters to Col Roderick MacLeod, 1927-1958, compiled by MacLeod in [1959], and 'A secret service agent in South-West Africa', a bound typescript text on Ironside's service as a British agent among the Boers in German South West Africa, 1902-1904, written by MacLeod in [1965] using Ironside's notes.

Papers, 1940-1983, of Lt Col Kenneth Garside, comprising papers relating to his work in Intelligence in Germany at the end of World War Two, comprising German papers taken by Intelligence, including maps and descriptions of parts of England prepared by the Germans for invasion and xeroxes of carbon copies of Adolf Hitler's will and other papers; British Intelligence papers on Germany, including a gazetteer; file, 29 Mar 1945-24 Jul 1947, relating to Garside's work from Nov 1945 to May 1946 at Herford Library, Germany, the Intelligence Library of the Control Commission for Germany, including a draft article on the library; papers relating to EPCOM (Enemy Publications (Requirements) Committee, established in 1945 to ensure that German learned publications of the war years could be made available to British university and other research libraries), 1945-1948; a personal file containing a curriculum vitae drawn up by his widow, Dec 1983, and administrative papers, 14 May 1940-20 Apr 1964, relating to his service in, and retirement from, the Army.

US Military Uses of Space, 1946-1991 is a themed microfilm collection which presents an integrated record of US military space organisations, operations, and policy from 1945 to 1991. Included are memoranda, messages, presidential decision documents, program management directives, histories, organisational manuals, reports, and studies. Documents concern four basic areas of US space military activity: military support systems (communications, meteorology, reconnaissance and other satellites), space weaponry (anti-satellite weapons and the Strategic Defense Initiative), policy, and organisation. Material concerning military support systems includes papers relating to the establishment of a US photographic reconnaissance satellite program, 1956; US Air Force contracts to Lockheed Missile Systems Division to develop the WS-117L air reconnaissance satellite, 1956-57; the development of the US Air Force reconnaissance satellite, codenamed SENTRY and then SAMOS, 1958; the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) research and development of an imaging satellite, codenamed CORONA, 1958; launching of CORONA satellite, 18 Aug 1960; the development and launch of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites designed to provide nuclear explosion detection data relevant to military intelligence collection, treaty verification (Limited Test Ban Treaty, Threshold Ban Treaty, Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Outer Space Treaty), and damage assessment, 1963-1970; development and launch of signals intelligence (SIGINT) satellites, including the RHYOLITE communications satellite, 1970; the launch of the KH-11 electro-optical 'pixel' imaging satellite, Dec 1976; development and launch of ocean surveillance PARCAE satellites, 1976-1989; communications intelligence (COMINT) satellite including the VORTEX and MAGNUM satellites, 1978-1985; the launch of synthetic aperture radar system LACROSSE satellites, 1988-1991; the development and launch of early warning satellites including the Missile Defense Alarm System (MIDAS) to monitor the missile launches from the Eurasian land mass and Submarine- Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs); papers relating to launch systems, including expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), such as modified Martin SM-68 Titan Inter- Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). Material concerning space weaponry includes Massachusetts Institute of Technology report to US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, introducing theoretical and scientific concepts for a laser weapons missile defence program, 1984; reports from the US Department of Defense, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, to the US Congress relating to the costs of a laser and kinetic energy anti-ballistic missile program and its proposed compliance with the 26 May 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 1984-1990; report from the US Department of Defense, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, to the US Congress outlining the goals, objectives, and costs of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1985; reports from the US General Accounting Office relating to the SDI concept change from laser and kinetic energy weapons to 'Brilliant Pebbles' weaponry, in which several thousand satellite interceptors would orbit the earth having the capability to destroy missile targets, 1990-1991. Documents relating to US military space policy include reports from the US National Security Council outlining the significance of space with respect to US national security, 1958-1985; memoranda from the US Department of Defense urging military priorities for space research, 1959-1977. Material relating to the organisational command of the military space program includes function manuals and inter-agency memoranda detailing the structure and role of specific organisations such as US Aerospace Command, the US Department of Defense, US Air Force Space Command, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, the US Army Space Agency, and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The collection presents an integrated record of US decision making during the 1958-1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the situation of Berlin specifically, and Germany generally. The collection includes primarily records of Eisenhower's telephone conversations with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Under Secretary of State Christian Archibald Herter and minutes of Eisenhower's discussions with Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to the President and, for the Kennedy administration, records mainly prepared by McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Laurence J Legere, Assistant to the Military Representative of the President, 1961-1962 and Senior National Security Council Staff Member, 1962-1963. The collection also includes records of East-West negotiations over Berlin and Germany, including US-Soviet 'exploratory discussions', 1958-1962; material relating to Allied efforts to develop a co-ordinated negotiating position during the first months of 1959 and the subsequent protracted talks in Geneva, Switzerland, May-Aug 1959; material relating to LIVE OAK, the tripartite American-British-French Berlin military contingency planning group under the direction of Gen Lauris Norstad, Commander- in-Chief US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Apr 1959; papers relating to US and Soviet nuclear capabilities, 1959-1962; Berlin checkpoint crises, 1959-1961; a complete record of the summit meeting in Sep 1959 between Eisenhower and Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at Camp David, Maryland, USA; papers relating to Western preparations for discussions on Berlin at the aborted summit of May 1960; papers relating to the 'Wall Crisis', including material relating to the refugee problem in the German Democratic Republic and US and Allied reactions to the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; US and Soviet confrontations at US zone checkpoint, 'Checkpoint Charlie', Oct 1961; minutes of conversations between Soviet and US policy makers during the Kennedy administration, including a compete record of the talks between (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, and Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, Gromyko and Llewellyn E Thompson, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Rusk and Anatoly Federovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the US, 1962. It should be noted that papers of major Kennedy administration officials remain closed due to security processing delays at the John F Kennedy Library. Thus, files after Sep 1961 in the National Security Files remain largely sealed. Moreover, documents from files that have been reviewed continue to be withheld or heavily excised. Also, many of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Department of Defense files from 1961-1962 continue to be withheld or heavily excised.

The US Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968 microfilm collection presents an integrated record of US decision making relating to the development, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons, 1955-1968. Documents are generated from a number of sources including the US Department of State, US Department of Defense, US Air Force, US Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Strategic Air Command, the Executive Office of the President, US National Security Council, and Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Material relating to early US policy planning and decisions on thermonuclear weapons includes relevance studies by the RAND Corporation, a US non-partisan government policy guidance institution, 1952; memoranda from the Office of the White House relating to nuclear weapons stockpiles and projections, 1959; and, memoranda from the US Department of State and the Atomic Energy Commission relating to underground and atmospheric nuclear testing, 1959-62. Papers relating to nuclear weapons development, acquisition and testing include memoranda from Gen Curtis E LeMay, Commander-in-Chief, US Strategic Air Command, relating to increased budgetary needs for the proposed nuclear build-up, Jan 1956; memorandum from Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to the President, relating to the concept of 'massive retaliation' in the event of a Soviet first-strike, May 1956; memorandum from the US Joint Chiefs of Staff relating to emergency war plans, nuclear strategy, and preventive war, Sep 1956; memorandum from the Gen Lyman L Lemnitzer, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, relating to US doctrine on thermonuclear attack, Apr 1961; memorandum from the US Department of Defense to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy relating to scenarios for US and Soviet first-strikes, Oct 1961; memorandum from Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara to the Office of the Secretary, US Army, relating to nuclear damage limitation and 'assured destruction'. Papers relating to nuclear strategy and planning include memoranda concerning the applicability of Soviet cities as targets of US nuclear attack; the US Strategic Air Command Basic War Plan, [Feb 1960]; papers relating to target co-ordination and planning for a functional Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), 1960-1961; papers on 'war-gaming', net evaluation exercises of US capabilites in the event of a general nuclear war with the Soviet Union, including memoranda from Robert R Bowie, Director of US State Department Policy Planning Staff, concerning Soviet capabilities to inflict direct damage on the US, 1953-1967. Material relating to air, land and sea nuclear delivery systems, missile deployments, alert programs, and defence appropriations include memoranda from Goodpaster concerning Eisenhower's endorsement plans for missile program acceleration and for upgrading US Strategic Air Command capabilities, 1957; memoranda from the President's Science Advisory Committee relating to the construction of civil defence structures and missile deployments, 1958; report from the US Department of Defense, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, reviewing US weapons systems and directly-related functions which constitute the strategic offensive posture of the US 1964-1967; press statements and memoranda from US Secretary of Defence McNamara relating to the doctine of 'assured destruction', defence appropriations, and weapons development, 1961-66; US National Security Briefings on strategic intelligence, Soviet capabilities for strategic attack, anti-missile and air defence, and economic trends, 1963. Papers relating to nuclear strategy, planning, weapons and delivery systems in the European theatre include reports regarding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's strategy for nuclear war, 1954-1969; the deployment of Chrysler 'Jupiter' PGM-19 IRBMs in Western Europe; the establishment of the Douglas 'Thor' PGM-17 IRBM program in Great Britain, 1956-1963; the escalation of US-Soviet hostilies in Berlin, 1961; reports concerning British co-operation with with US Strategic Air Command; speech by US Secretary of State McNamara, in Athens, Greece, relating to US assurances to its European allies in the event of a general war, 1962. Papers relating to nuclear warning and defence include reports from the US Department of State concerning the immediate construction of a Distant Early Warning (DEW) system in Canada and Alaska, 1952-1953; reports from the President's Science Advisory Committee, including studies of civil defence measures in the event of a nuclear attack, 1957-1958; reports from the US Department of State regarding the construction of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) in the United Kingdom, 1958; memoranda from the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD), relating to nuclear pre- emption and tactical warnings, 1958-1959; reports from the President's Science Advisory Committee's Anti-Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Panel, 1958-1959; papers from the President's Science Advisory Committee and the US Department of Defense relating to the construction and deployment of Bell Laboratory Nike-Zeus and Nike X Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABMs) in the US, Canada, and Western Europe, 1959-1968.

Armed Forces Oral Histories: US Army Senior Officer Oral Histories is a themed microfiche collection of 96 interviews of senior US Army personnel, 1971-1986. The interviews cover the entire career of the interviewee. As biographical interviews, they emphasise the significant events in which the subject took part and the personalities with whom the subject came into contact. Many of the interviewees had long careers that spanned World War Two, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. However, many of the interviews relate to non-combat roles, including the formulation of major doctrinal and policy programmes for the US Army. Included in the collection are interviews with Gen Mark Wayne Clark, relating to his service as Commander, US 2 Corps, and liaison duties with French forces in North Africa, 1942, his position as High Commissioner of Austria, 1945-1947, and his services as Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command in Korea, 1952-1953; Gen Lucius DuBignon Clay, relating to his service as Deputy Military Governor of Germany, Commander-in-Chief, US Military Forces Europe, and Military Governor of US Zone in Germany, 1947-1949; Gen William E Dupuy, relating to the establishment of US Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) following the Vietnam War; Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, relating to his staff positions with Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), his services with US Special Forces in Vietnam and Laos, and his role as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR); Gen Lewis B Hershey, relating to the US selective service system operation during World War Two and the American debate over the draft; Gen Lyman L(ouis) Lemnitzer, relating to his position on the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1945-1947, his services as Commander-in-Chief, Far East, 1955-1957, and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1960-1962; Gen Matthew Bunker Ridgway, relating to his command of US 82 Airborne Div in Sicily, Italy, and Normandy, France, 1942-1944, his position as US Commander, Mediterranean Theater and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean, 1945-1946, Commanding General US 8 Army, Korea, 1950-1951, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), 1952-1953; Gen Maxwell Davenport Taylor, relating to his service as US Military Representative to the President, 1961-1962, his views on counterinsurgency activities during the Vietnam War, US bombing tactics in North Vietnam, his role as US Ambassador to South Vietnam, and his views on Gen William Childs Westmoreland, Commander, US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 1964-1965.

Various texts including printed report of a Royal United Services Institute seminar on defence and the mass media given by AVM Stewart William Blacker Menaul, 13 Oct 1970; official Egyptian publication, 6 October: An Arab War of Liberation (Al Muttahida Arab Co, Cairo, 1973), relating to the Arab-Israeli War, 6 Oct-22 Oct 1973; Nuclear Vulnerability Handbook by Ian Bellany (University of Lancaster, Centre for the Study of Arms Control and International Security, 1981)

Collection includes five postcards, four of which are of British troops from 1 Airborne Div at Hotel De Tafelberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands, during Operation MARKET GARDEN, the Allied attempt to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine river at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944, and one of the Airborne Monument at Oosterbeek, built by J Maris, 1946; and a personal account by Henk B van der Horst entitled, Paratroopers Jump, Fury over Arnhem (Boekhandel Romijn, Oosterbeek, 1946), relating to the Allied airborne offensive at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944.

Publications relating to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and western European defensive strategy, procurement, and technology, 1948-1988, most notably editions of NATO's Fifteen Nations, a journal devoted to NATO alliance politics, force structure, integration, combined training, and procurement, May 1958-Jun 1988; an edition of Laboratory of the Air (HMSO, Ministry of Supply, 1948), detailing the history and function of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire; seven aerial photographs of the Royal Aircraft Establishment; an edition of Facts about NATO (NATO Information Service, Paris, 1959), detailing NATO history, organisation, and force structure; edition of NATO: Facts about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Bosh: Utrecht, 1962)

Eleven volumes of The Sunday Times Diary of the War (Withy Grove Press, London and Manchester, [1939-1945]), each volume includes six months of newspaper extracts from Sunday Times, 1939-1945, relating to political, diplomatic, and operational events during World War Two