Subject files, 1940-1944, on a range of topics including general organisation, "H" Company (County Hall), "P" Company (Parks Department), "E" Company (Chief Engineers' Department), "C" Company (Cooper's Hill), "F" Company (Fire Brigade Department), "S" Company (Supplies Department), Public Health Company and No.2 Battalion (later 48th County of London Battalion), Mental Hospitals Company, medical organisation and equipment, food rationing and mobile canteens, Battalion Funds, Courts-martial and courts of inquiry, explosions, accidents and injuries, loss of arms and ammunition, dress regulations, storage of ammunition, revolvers, appointment of officers, adjutants and quartermasters, Permanent Staff Instructors, new conditions of service for home guards, man-power figures, attachments and locations, Women Home Guard auxiliaries, compensation for loss of earnings, casualties, discipline, Home Guard duties and civil defence, personnel over 65 years of age, transport, armoured fighting vehicles, Winter and Summer training, assaults at arms, ranges, operations, exercises, security and intelligence, mine watching exercises, anniversary parades, standing-down of Home Guard and awards and commendations.

Also Army Council Instructions; regulations for the Home Guard; Home Guard Information Circulars; Home Guard Instructions; London District Home Guard Orders; London County Council Group Orders; 47th Battalion Orders; 48th Battalion Orders; Guard report books; papers relevant to the history of the London County Council battalions, including copies of the printed histories of "3" and "C" Companies by Majors Brand and Belsham; papers relating to the formation of Old Comrades Association and Home Guard Training Manual (third edition).

The papers cover the period, 1879-1916, and include papers on Howell's service as a correspondent for The Times in the Balkans, including photographs and newspaper cuttings, 1903; papers on Howell's training at Staff College, Quetta, India, and Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, including notes on Cavalry organization and tactics and on the establishment of FrontierIntelligence organization in India, 1904-1914; papers on service as Officer Commanding 4 Hussars, including Operational orders, accounts of Allied operations on Western Front, personal diaries and manuscript maps of Western Front trenches, 1914-1915; Operational orders from service as Brig Gen, General Staff Cavalry Corps, Western Front, 1915; official and semi-official correspondencefrom service as Chief of Staff, Salonika, including personal diaries, correspondence relating to attempts to secure Bulgarian entry in World War One on the Allied side, and correspondence relating to allegations of Howell leaking memoranda to a Suffragete newspaper called Britannia, 1915-1916. The collection also includes Howell family correspondence, 1879-1889, mostly between Howell's father and grandfather, and from 1909-16 between Howell and his wife Mrs Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell [nee Buxton]. The papers of Howell's wife, Mrs Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell [nee Buxton], 1910-1966, include an account of Howell's life entitled, Philip Howell. A Memoir By His Wife(1942, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd) and letters from Capt (Edward) Hugh Buxton and Maj (Abbot) Redmond Buxton [Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell's brothers], concerning Allied withdrawal from Anzac Cove and Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915-1916.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1917-1963, principally comprising official correspondence with Lt Gen M Brocas Burrows, British Military Mission, Moscow, 1944-1945, Gen Mark Wayne Clark, US Army, 1943-1944, 1951-1952, Maj Gen Richard Henry Dewing, UK Army and RAF Liaison Staff, Australia, 1943-1944, Maj Gen Gordon Edward Grimsdale, Military Attaché andhead of Military Mission to Chungking, China, 1942-1943, AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt, Director of Combined Operations, War Office, 1940-1942, Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall, South East Asia Command HQ, 1944-1945, Lt Gen Sir Harold Redman, British Joint Staff Mission, Washington DC, 1943-1944, AF Sir James Somerville, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet, 1943-1947, and Maj Gen Sir Edward Spears, Minister to the Lebanon, 1940-1944, and Lt Gen Albert C Wedemeyer, US Army, Deputy Chief of Staff; South East Asia Command, 1944; personal correspondence with and about FM Lord Alanbrooke, 1946-1947, 1957-1963, FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 1941-1961, and FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, 1943-1946; official andpersonal correspondence with Dwight David Eisenhower, 1942-1965, and AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1943-1954, 1960-1964; correspondence with publishers and colleagues, including Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor; papers relating to India, 1947-1951, including his correspondence as Chief of Staff to Mountbatten, 1947, notes on interviews with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahomed Ali Jinnah, 1947, letters describing the political situation in India, 1947-1948, and correspondence concerning compensation for Indian Government servants, 1948-1951; correspondence concerning the proposed defence reorganisation, 1955-1963; papers relating to his service as Secretary General, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 1952-1957, including his official progress reports, 1952-1956; newspaper cuttings, statements to the press and texts of speeches and broadcasts, 1952-1957; papers relating to his memoirs, [1940-1960] including correspondence with publishers, 1960-1961, and colleagues, 1957-1960, notebooks, 1940-1960, and drafts and proofs, [1960]. newspaper cuttings, 1943, 1948, 1951-1952, 1957; texts of speeches, 1943-1958; correspondence relating to operations in Somaliland, 1917-1920; notes and papers relating to his studies at Staff College, Quetta and RAF Staff College, 1922-1924. Papers relating to Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 1940-1965, including personal correspondence with Churchill, 1940, 1943-1945, 1947-1964; correspondence relating to Churchill's memoir The Second World War (Cassell, London, 1948-1954), 1946-1956, including correspondence relating to Dieppe Raid, Aug 1942, dated 1950, and galley proofs, [1948-1954]. Printed material, 1941-1945, 1947, 1951, notably including copies of telegrams sent by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, 1941-1942; minutes of Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943-1944; minutes of Combined Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943, 1945.

My long journey: a true story of World War II as seen through the eyes of a former commando soldier, typescript memoir by Colour Sergeant George The Joker' Jowett, including descriptions of training with King's Own Royal Border Regiment in Armagh, Northern Ireland and Liverpool, England; selection for Special Service as a Commando; training at the Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry, 1942; D-Day preparations with 6 Commando, May 1944; D-Day landings and subsequent action, Normandy, June 1944; evacuation after being wounded and recovery in Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Gloret Auxiliary hospital, June-July 1944; return to service in Ostend, Jan 1945; serious injury while on patrol, Feb 14 1945; treatment and physical therapy in Lille, France; posting in Veroa, Greece, Famagusta, Cyprus and Tobruk with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment after the disbanding of the Commandos, 1946-1947; demobilisation, 1947. Also typescript memoirD Day: before and after', account of the Normandy landings June 1944 excerpted from `My Long Journey'.

Papers relating to Kennedy's service as Capt of the battlecruiser HMS INDOMITABLE during World War One, including brief diary of the war training of the British Mediterranean Fleet, 1913-1914; narratives describing the shadowing, chase and escape of the German battlecruiser GOEBEN and its companion ship BRESLAU from the British Mediterranean Fleet, Aug 1914; apersonal description of the first bombardment of the Dardanelles, Nov 1914; intelligence reports of the positions of the warships of various nations, 1915; summary of information received from survivors of the German battlecruiser BLUCHER sunk during the Battle of Dogger Bank, Jan 1915; a brief personal memoir of the Battle of Jutland, May 1916.

Papers relating to his service in 4/5 East Lancashire Regt, dated 1931, principally comprising battalion orders and instructions for training exercises.

Research notes and papers of John Michael Lee on Africa, 1956-1967: subjects include statistics on African Officer Cadets training in Britain, 1953-1967; rates of pay for army and police in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Nigeria, 1960-1968; notes on the Nigerian officer cadre, 1960-1966; papers on the introduction of the Ministerial system in Uganda, 1955-1962; papers on Colonial Social Science Research Council Working Party on Colonial Elections, 1956; copies of official correspondence on Banyaruanda refugees, 1961-1962; copies of official correspondence on strike of students at the Nakawa Engineering School, Uganda, 1957-1958; documents on scheme for 300 scholarships, offered by the Government of Uganda, 1961-1962 and documents on the integration of the Department and Ministry of Education, Uganda, c1957-1962.

Papers chiefly related to Lethbridge's service in the Second World War, 1943-1948 and the Control Commission, 1945-1948. Typescript report, photographs, glass photographic slides and correspondence relating to 220 Lethbridge Mission, to the USA, India, South West Pacific and Australia to study tactics and equipment required to defeat Japan in the Far East, 1943-1944. Photographs, including album of Australian troops in action with Japanese, Papua New Guinea, 1943, with related publications, notably War in New Guinea (Department of Information, Australia, 1943) and The Australasians [27 Nov 1943], with profile of Lethbridge. Papers relating to Lethbridge's service as Chief of Staff, 14 Army, Burma, 1944-1945, including printed chart of the planned phases of the Burma campaign, 1944; letters home, Aug 1944-Jun 1945; personal letter from Gen Sir William Joseph Slim, Commander in Chief, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, to Lethbridge, 26 Sep 1945; typescript operational and administrative notes on the Burma campaign, 1945; portrait photographs, including Gen Slim [1945]; typescript administrative memoranda, 1945; edition of Campaign in Burma (Central Office of Information, London, 1946). Papers relating to Control Commission for Germany, 1945-1948, including photocopies of Hitler's last will and testament, with copies of translations, 1945; Lethbridge's notes on evidence for Hitler's death, 1945; Hitler's signed Christmas card [1944]; press cuttings relating to defeat of plot by former SS officers, 1947; two UK Government papers relating to Germany (HMSO, London, 1939); photograph album of pre-war Berlin, with notes on post war condition [1946]. Photographs and press cuttings relating to the opening of the Civil Defence College, Sunningdale, Berkshire, 1950; photographs relating to Civil Defence exercise, Bristol, 1956. Obituary for Lethbridge, reprinted from The Royal Engineers Journal [1961].

Royal Naval Air Service/RAF pilot's flying log book, 1918-1924; three RAF pilot's flying log books, 1924-1926, 1934-1936 and 1937-1946. Four photograph albums, with many captioned photographs of Lynch's service in Turkey and southern Russia, 1919, and Iraq, 1931-1934, also 51 photographic negatives, mostly of southern Russia, 1919. Personal papers and photographs,1917-1946, including printed RAF certificate for the completion of a course in 'Aerial gunnery and bombing, Eastchurch, Kent, 1924, congratulatory letter to Lynch, concerning a successful air display, from AVM Cyril Louis Norton Newall, Air Officer Commanding Wessex Bombing Area, 1931, and printed service history, compiled by Lynch's son, 1994.

Papers relating to Marnham's life and career, 1916-1954, including twelve printed maps of Kashmir and Jammu, India, dated 1916-1933, with printed booklet entitled Notes for visitors to Kashmir (Pratap Government Press, India, 1933); printed programme for film Mons, 1924; twenty two captioned photographs relating to service in Peshawar and Nowshera, India, 1928-1935;typescript 'Report on operations in Greece', 4 Infantry Bde, 3 Mar-28 Apr 1941, with two printed maps of Greece [1941]; typescript official report 'The operations of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division in the Sicilian campaign, July and August 1943', with photograph of the memorial to 1 Durham Infantry Bde, Ponte Primosole, Sicily, 1943; typescript training notes by Maj Gen Charles Falkland Loewen,General Officer Commanding 1 Infantry Div, Mar 1945; printed booklet entitled Notes on the blockade of Berlin 1948. From a British viewpoint in Berlin (Headquarters, British Troops, Berlin, Germany, 1948); group photograph of the Warrant Officers and Sergeants, 62 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Sep 1951; printed booklet containing list of members of 50 (Northumbrian) Div Officers Dining Club, Aug 1954.

Papers of Gen Sir Richard McCreery, 1928-1960; including notes relating to Staff College, 1928-1929; edition of The Cologne Post and Wiesbaden Times, 3 Nov 1929, relating to the final evacuation of British Forces from the Rhine; map of Aisne battlefield, 1914; notes relating to 12 Royal Lancers training exercises, chiefly on Salisbury Plain, 1937-1938; detailed narrative of 2 Armoured Brigade operations, France, May-Jun 1940, with brief diary of events, and official photograph with original caption, 'A conference at HQ during operations on the Somme Front'; map for 5 Corps training exercise, Salisbury Plain, Dec 1940; official correspondence as Commander, 8 Armoured Div, Home Forces, Dec 1940-Oct 1941, discussing topics including unit inspections, accommodation, recruitment and appointments; report on 'The supply of mobile forces by air', c 1942, regarding supply in the Western Desert; letter from Maj Gen Gerald Templer, Cdr 56 Div, Italy, 18 Mar 1944, commenting on recent operations; messages to all ranks as Commander, 8 Army, Italy, 12 October 1944-26 April 1945; pamphlet, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, 1945, relating to the development of the Corps, 1940-1945; notes on the Tunisian campaign and notebook containing brief notes on operations in Italy and Austria, 1944-1946, possibly compiled retrospectively as lecture notes; detailed itinerary for British Troops in Austria battlefield tour of Italy, 5-11 May 1946; letter from V Adm Louis Mountbatten, South East Asia Command HQ, 8 Aug 1946, asking for any available polo ponies to be sold to the Malta Polo Club; booklet sent as Christmas card, 1946, with illustrations of Russian Army personnel; publications British Army of the Rhine battlefield tour: first day. 8 Corps operations east of Caen, 18-21 July 1944 (Operation GOODWOOD) (BAOR, Jun 1947) and British Army of the Rhine battlefield tour: fourth day. 43 (W) Division assault crossing of the River Seine, 25-28 August 1944 (BAOR, Jun 1947); brief notes relating to British Army of the Rhine organisation and administration, [1947]; letter from Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 16 Dec 1947, relating a recent conversation with Emmanuel Shinwell, Minister of Defence, concerning the role of Christian teaching in Army education, particularly with regard to National Servicemen in Germany; routine official correspondence as Colonel Commandant, Royal Armoured Corps, 1947-1957; memorandum from FM Sir Bernard Law Montgomery as Chief of Imperial General Staff, 29 May 1948, relating to deployment of tanks by Royal Armoured Corps; notes on 'The Reserve Army, 1946-1949', by Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, 1949; letter from Lynch Maydon, the Conservative MP for Wells, 7 Nov 1956, responding to the latter's criticism of the invasion of the Suez Canal Zone; correspondence, May-June 1957, relating to proposed mergers of army regiments; papers, chiefly training notes, relating to the Royal Armoured Corps, 1960.

Papers of Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, 1946-1996, including papers from McGeoch's naval career including his time as commander of Royal Navy Base Portsmouth, 1955; as Naval Liaison Officer, RAF Coastal Command, 1955-1956 and as Flag Officer, Submarines and Northern Ireland and Scotland, 1965-1970.

Research notes, essays and transcripts of talks by McGeoch on naval topics including research notes for The Princely Sailor: Mountbatten of Burma; editorials and articles by McGeoch for Naval Forces; correspondence including with Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly, 1993-1994; Sir John Hackett and Michael Howard, 1971; papers relating to the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies including correspondence regarding submissions and talks by McGeoch, newsletters, annual reports, articles by McGeoch, council minutes, charter, bye-laws and standing orders, 1950-1991 and printed books and journals on military history.

Papers and correspondence on topics including party politics in McGeoch's local area, particularly the Conservative Party, 1971-1974; the British Atlantic Council, 1974-1994; national security, disarmament and arms control, 1974-1986; the security of North Sea oil rigs, 1975-1981; fisheries and pollution in the North Sea, 1976; the Baltic and Mediterranean protection of the marine environment; UK defence policy, 1981; the British Atlantic Committee, 1983-1984; the Atlantic Treaty Association Assembly, Toronto, 8-13 Oct 1984; House of Commons Defence Committee, 1986-1988; the future of the Royal Navy Engineering College, Manadon, and McGeoch's campaign to keep it open, 1993; McGeoch's letter to The Times and on whether Polaris submarines should have a Christian launching service and the education of Royal Navy officers, 1993-1994.

Papers relating to McNeill's career, 1942-1946, notably on Army-Air collaboration, 1942-1945, including typescript 'Eighth Army training memorandum No 1' by Lt Gen Bernard Law Montgomery, General Officer Commanding 8 Army, Middle East Forces [1942]; typescript memorandum by McNeill 'Recommendations for reorganisation of AASC (Army-Air Support Control)',1942; printed 'Middle East training pamphlet No 3B (Army and RAF). Direct air support', issued by General Headquarters, Middle East Forces and Headquarters, RAF, Middle East, 1943; typescript war diary of Detachment A, Air Support Control, 5 Corps, Italy, Mar-Jun 1944; typescript report produced by Headquarters 21 Army Group, British Liberation Army, North West Europe, entitled 'Notes on airsupport, June-October 1944', Nov 1944; typescript notes by McNeill entitled 'Offensive air support in the Burma campaign, 1944-1945'; two typescript draft chapters for a projected book entitled 'Air support in North Africa, Pantellaria, and Sicily, 1942-1943' and 'Air support in the Italian campaign, 1943-1945' [1946]; typescript account by Roy Smith entitled 'Air support in the desert: an account of the use of air forces in support of the Army from the Gazala battles in 1942 to the end in Tunisia', 1988.

Papers relating to his service in World War Two, dated 1941-1946, 1941-1946, 1951, principally comprising semi-official and personal correspondence, 1941-1946, including letter to his wife describing events leading up to his dismissal from command of 7 Armoured Div, 1942; pamphlet on the Battle of Keren, Mar 1941, produced by Maj Gen Sir Nigel Trapp, HQEritrea District, for visit of Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces, to Keren battlefield, Eritrea, Mar 1947; Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, 1943-1945 by AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (London, HMSO, 1951); operational notes and training instructions for 7 and 9 Indian Divs during the Burma campaign, 1943-1945; 'Warfare in undeveloped countries. Part 1: desert warfare', War Office publication written by [Messervy] in 1954; printed histories by Messervy and others describing operations in Burma by 12 Army, 14 Army, 4 Corps, 15 Indian Corps, 23 Indian Corps, and 25 Indian Div; Ministry of Information publications, dated [1945], concerning campaigns in the Middle East and Far East, 1941-1945, the Merchant Navy, 1939-1944, Combined Operations, 1940-1942, Britain's anti-aircraft defences, 1939-1942, and civil defence in the UK, 1940-1941, and the war effort on the Home Front, 1942-1944; Government of India publications,dated [1944-1946], describing the service of various divisions of the Indian Army during World War Two.

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.

Microfilm copies of official US government reports and US military, scientific, academic and policy journals relating to nuclear weapons, arms control, weapons technology, deterrence, nuclear strategy, and US foreign policy, 1919-1995. The reports have been arranged chronologically and include material relating to non-proliferation treaty safeguards; civil defence in the United States; deterrence theory; analyses of the Soviet Military Industrial Complex; interview transcripts of US government officials associated with weapons systems development and deployment; qualitative and quantitative analyses of the US-Soviet arms race; analyses of the theory of flexible response; nuclear capabilities of the People's Republic of China; North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) missile warning systems, 1968-1981; the Joint Cruise Missiles Project, 1982; the Tonopah Test Range technical manual, 1982; the planning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) nuclear deterrent for the 1980s and 1990s; French and British nuclear forces in the 1980s and 1990s; the evolution of US and NATO tactical nuclear doctrine and limited nuclear war options, the Strategic Defense Initiative Program (SDI); trends in anti-nuclear protests in the US; US National Security Policy, 1980s; the threat of nuclear terrorism; the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty; anti-satellite weaponry; the threat of biological and chemical weapons. Official US government reports include report to the US Congress relating to stockpile reliability, weapons re-manufacture, and the role of nuclear testing, 1987; report to the US Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative, 1989; Nevada Test Site Annual Site Environmental Report, 1989; report on the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), including the text of the treaty and a number of related documents and protocols, 1991; the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, 1993; the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency report to the US Congress, 1994; US Department of Energy reports relating to the disposal and storage of fissile materials, 1995.

US Military Intelligence Reports: Japan, 1918-1941 is a themed microfilm collection relating to US Military Intelligence Division (MID) in Japan, 1918- 1941. Included in the collection are microfilmed copies of US MID reports from the military attaché and his staff, and correspondence and telegrams between the military attaché, his staff, US Army Headquarters and the Japanese Imperial Army Headquarters, and US and foreign diplomats throughout the Far East. These documents have been arranged into eight sections: general conditions, political conditions, economic conditions, general conditions in Korea, army, field artillery, navy, and aviation. These sections are not mutually exclusive and all include a range of routine and special reports. Reports on domestic policy cover the rise of right wing, socialist, and communist organisations in Japan; the effects of the 1923 earthquake; Japanese industrial expansion, notably the securing of raw materials from neighbouring countries; the South Manchurian Railway Company; oil prospecting; and the iron and steel industries. Military and foreign policy reports concern the occupation of Korea, Siberia, Manchuria (Manchukuo), and the 1919 independence demonstrations in Korea. Specific military reports cover Japanese military tactics; military regulations; combat principles; training; organisation, the social attitude of officers; civil-military relations; aviation technology and statistics; the annual budgets of the Japanese War Ministry; naval building programmes; the scrapping of warships in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922; naval operations in World War One; the use of air power against China; and the construction of offensive airfields in Indo-China.

Photographs of the Middlesex Civil Defence Corps including exercises, competitions and social events.

A collection of twentieth century maps formerly held by the Map Library of King,s College London. A large number of maps in the collection relate to World War One. These were either produced for military use, as in the case of the British maps published by the Geographical Section, General Staff (GSGS), 1909-1918, or were produced subsequently to illustrate World War One battles and campaigns, such as the set of tracings of the strategic development of the battle of Jutland, 1916, the War Office Historical Section (Military Branch) maps of the campaign in Palestine, 1917-1918, published 1927-1929 and the French and German maps. There are several later Geographical Section, General Staff (GSGS), maps produced 1935-1953, including maps published during World War Two and a map of the area of Cassino, Italy, compiled and reproduced by 12 Polish Field Survey Company, Dec 1945. The final section consists of a number of maps and diagrams produced for use in Staff College entrance and staff/promotion examinations, 1955-1962

Committee on Military Education, Report of the Committee appointed to consider the Education and Training of Officers of the Army (HMSO, London, 1902), including the official report and recommendations of the Committee on Military Education; Committee on Military Education, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee appointed to consider the Education and Training of Officers of the Army (HMSO, London, 1902), including interview statements from officers in the Army, most notably FM Rt Hon Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford; and Maj Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton.

Photocopies of typescripts and manuscripts relating to the conversion of the Essex Yeomanry, Territorial Army, to Armoured Car Companies, 1920-1921, including copy of typescript memorandum from the Maj Gen Sir Charles Harington Harington, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, to Lt Col Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore, Military Member, Territorial Army Association, relating to the conversion of all Yeomanry regiments to armoured car companies and the training of personnel in the Territorial Army, 4 Feb 1920

German phrase book issued by the US War Department, 1943, for US military personnel lost or taken prisoner behind the front lines during World War Two

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)

Fifty editions of Tee Emm, the Department of the Air Member for Training, Air Ministry, training memoranda monthly magazine, Apr 1941-Mar 1946. In addition to containing RAF training procedures and memoranda relating to RAF administration, navigation techniques, airmanship, crew co-operation requirements, gunnery, and aerial intelligence matters, the magazines included leisure articles and cartoons; fictional accounts of air operations; RAF honours lists; and updates on technological developments in the RAF

Pamphlets, handouts and notes, 1974-1985, issued to Sergeant C T Holt while on Territorial Army training courses, including: 'Soviet Weapons Whiz Wheel', a guide to the identification of various weapons, Sep 1975; nuclear, biological and chemical defence training pamphlets, produced by the Ministry of Defence, comprising: 'Pamphlet 2: The Effects of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Attack', Aug 1974, 'Pamphlet 3: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Equipment', Oct 1978, 'Pamphlet 4: Radiac Instruments', Oct 1977, 'Pamphlet 5: Personal Protection and Decontamination', May 1975, 'Pamphlet 6: NBC Defence of Airfields and Landing Sites', Jan 1975 and 'Pamphlet 7: The Organisation of Unit Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence', 1974; notes and handouts from a Combat Signals Course, Royal School of Military Engineering, including pamphlet 'Royal Engineer Communications: Signal Procedure & Radio Notes', 1981; notes and handouts from a course on nuclear, biological and chemical warfare for non-commissioned officers, 1982; 'Survive to Fight', Army Training drill sheets describing procedures in case of nuclear, biological or chemical attack, Jun 1983; notes and handouts relating to exercises, including nuclear, biological and chemical warfare tactics, 1983; 'Warning and Reporting Aide Memoire', issued by Defence Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Centre (Defence NBC Centre), Winterbourne Gunner, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Jul 1984; Training Information Folder Edition No 5', issued by 'Training Wing, Defence Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Centre (Defence NBC Centre), Winterbourne Gunner, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1985.

Handout from a Brigade and Regimental Intelligence Course (BRIC); handouts introducing the Geneva Convention, prisoner handling and tactical questioning, analysis of methods of interrogation and indoctrination, and Communist methods of interrogation and indoctrination; handouts from a course on field defences; handouts relating to the Soviet Army issued by the Soviet Training Branch, Defence Intelligence and Security School; notes and handouts relating to training on MAPCO, a method of encoding map references.

Also a sealed Decontamination Kit labelled 'personal No 1, Mk 1'.

Edition of The British Way and Purpose, 3: The Growth of Empire, the Dominions, India, the Colonial Empire (The Director of Army Education, London, 1943); photocopy of manuscript note from Rt Hon William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, relating to aircraft production and storage, [1943].

Published booklets from the General Staff, War Office, including two booklets entitled The German Army in Pictures and More Pictures of the German Army, detailing German Army weaponry, uniforms, and insignia, 1941; five guides to the Germany Army detailing the tactics and organisation of armoured divisions, infantry divisions, airborne troops, engineers, and reconnaissance units, 1941; A Guide to the Identification of German Units, detailing badges of rank and service German officers for the purpose of interrogation, 1942; five pamphlets relating to German infantry weapons, Italian infantry weapons, German light anti- aircraft and anti-tank guns, German infantry, heavy anti-aircraft, and divisional artillery; German infantry engineer and airborne weapons, 1941-1943; Periodical Notes on the German Army relating to tactics of the German tank regiment and tank battalion, German Army tactics in Libya, 1941, operations of German 11 Air Corps during the attack on Crete, May 1941, German artillery operations in armoured divisions, and the tactical handling of German armoured divisions, lorried infantry and motorcycle units, 1942; New Notes on the German Army, relating to the evolution of German armoured and motorised divisions, and German supply and administrative services, 1942-1943; two pamphlets relating to the German Army order of battle, 1942-1943; booklet designed to aid British personnel in the recognition of British and Allied Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs), 1942; booklet of vocabulary of German military terms, 1943.

Home Guard training notes, booklets and maps, 1916-1943; comprising 2 folders of Home Guard papers consisting of typescript and manuscript exercise orders, training camp instructions, night training guidance, guidance notes on the use of weapons and training proficiency badge examination mark sheets, all relating to 61 Surrey (Norwood) Bn, 1941-1943; printed War Office Home Guard regulations, training and information booklets with a guide to German infantry, 1941-1943; maps of the Western Front, Belgium and France, 1916-1918, British and German, some showing trenches, focussing on the Hazebrouck and Senlis regions, and of the Western Front and of Europe in general published by the Daily Telegraph, Ordnance Survey and others; photographic panorama showing a stretch of front with identifying background features such as roads, settlements and woodland in the Neuve Chapelle area, [1916].

Group photograph of Taiping Signals Troop, [Singapore], 1957; thirteen photographs of 22 Signals Regt, Royal Corps of Signals, winter warfare training exercise WHITETHRUST, Norway, 1966, with edition of The wire, the Royal Corps of Signals magazine, with article on the exercise by Morrison, Apr-May 1966; edition of The wire, with obituary for Morrison, Oct-Nov 1972.Sixteen photographs relating to the military career of Lt Frank Morrison, Intelligence Corps (father of Lt Col Stanley Paton Morrison), including thirteen photographs of bomb damage in Kiel, Germany, including scuttled German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL HIPPER, and damage to armoured cruiser ('pocket battleship') ADMIRAL SCHEER, Apr 1945. Papers and photographs relating to Lt Robert Harley Nowland, Morrison's brother in law, who served with Gull Force, Australian Imperial Forces, 1941-1942, and was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Ambon, Dutch East Indies, Feb 1942, including copy of letter home by Nowland from HMAS LATROBE, and relating to hisrelease from Amboina prison camp, Ambon, Dutch East Indies, and to his health, Sep 1945; printed article by Nowland, from unknown publication, entitled 'Return to Ambon', relating to the formation of Gull Force, the capture of Ambon by Japanese forces, his time as a POW, and his return to Ambon for an Anzac Day memorial service [1980]; newspaper cuttings from the Brisbane Telegraph relating toreports of Japanese atrocities in POW camps, Sep 1945, and the Anzac Day parade, Brisbane, Australia, Apr 1949; six photographs including artillery exercise and group of Australian officers [1915]; 27 Australian Infantry Bde on parade, Bathurst, Australia, May 1941; Anzac Day parades, Brisbane, Australia, 1936 and 1949.

Copies of detailed narrative diaries and transcripts of Naval signal messages on RN operations, 1939-1945, including service at RN Gunnery School, Chatham, Kent, 1939, on HMS JERVIS in the North Sea, 1940, with the Mediterranean Fleet, 1940-1941, with Combined Operations Command, Dieppe and Normandy, 1942-1944, and the British Pacific Fleet, 1945-1946. Also, typescript copies of operational orders for Operation NEPTUNE, Normandy, 1944.

Papers of Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) Newman, 1916-1994, including call up and telegram, Aug 1939; letters home, [1940-1945]; two portrait photographs, [1940] and [1944]; photograph album, 1941-1942; letter to Newman, Mar 1948, from three former Luxembourg cadets, requesting confirmation of their Officer Cadet Training Unit training under Newman, 1945-1946; White Paper, 'Re-organisation of the army reserves' (HMSO, Dec 1965), and related press statement, Dec 1965, by the Council of Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Associations; correspondence, Mar 1993 - Mar 1994, relating to the future of the Territorial Army; photograph album of Newman's father, Capt Thomas Pacey Newman, 1916-[1924], and photocopy letter from Mrs Newman (wife of Thomas, mother of Stuart), to her son Roland, 9 Jun 1944, with eye witness description of planes and gliders leaving for France, evening of 6 Jun, with transcript.

Papers of Maj Gen Charles Wake Norman, notably on armoured warfare, 1938-1965, including copy of war diary, May 1940, France and Belgium; report of the Massy Committee on the military education of the army officer, 1938, and first progress reports; papers on armour, including discussion on armoured tactics, 1941, notes on the early history of 9 Armoured Div, order of battle, Jul 1942 for 1 Armoured Div; instructions; extract of letter from Maj John Scott, 12 May 1943; copies of correspondence with Correlli Barnett for on his book Desert Generals, 1961-1965, including copies of contemporary documents and typescript extract of war diary of James Taylor-Whitehead in France, 1914.

Papers relating to Gallipoli (Faber and Faber, London, 1936), 1927-1967, principally comprising original typescript, [1936]; correspondence, 1927-1967, notably with Brig Gen Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander, 1933-1939, Gen Sir Ian (Standish Monteith) Hamilton, 1934-1941, Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 1936-1937, AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt, 1934-1939, and Maj Gen Arthur Cecil Temperley, 1935-1939; newspaper cuttings, [1915]-1966, including reviews of Gallipoli, 1936-1937, and cuttings relating to the Gallipoli campaign, [1915]-1966; 'Gallipoli', [script of radio programme] by Val Henry Gielgud, 1936; photographs of Gallipoli taken by North, [1936]. Papers relating to North West Europe (HMSO, London, 1953), 1943-1961, including original typescript, [1953]; correspondence, 1944-1957, notably with Liddell Hart, 1953-1954, and FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1954-1955; press cuttings, 1943-1961, comprising reviews of North West Europe, 1944-1945, dated 1953-1954, and cuttings relating to World War Two, dated 1943-1961; official US Government and HMSO publications relating to World War Two, 1945-1946. Papers relating to The Alexander memoirs (Cassell, London, 1962), dated 1941, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1959-1964, including draft copy, [1962], and published copy, 1962; correspondence, 1961-1964, notably with FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, 1961-1963, Liddell Hart, 1961-1962, and Montgomery, 1962; newspaper cuttings, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959-1963; photographs taken by North and Alexander on a visit to the Middle East and Italy, 1960. Other papers, [1931-1968], including articles by North, [1939-1966], notably concerning training, tactics and weaponry; correspondence, [1933-1960]; maps of UK and North West Europe, 1931-1944; press cuttings, 1939-1966, including reviews of Men Fighting (Faber and Faber, London, 1958), 1958-1959; 'Diary of the Belgian Campaign, May 1940', typescript text by AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, dated [1940].

Papers of Archibald Cochrane consisting of two midshipman's logs, 1890 to 1894.

Papers of Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen. They consist of an account, drawn up in 1825, of the mutiny at Spithead in 1797 and of documents and narrative towards a history of the Walcheren expedition of 1809. There is also a letter of Privy Seal appointing Owen Clerk of the Ordnance, 1834.

Papers of William Fitzwilliam Owen. They include a narrative of Owen's naval service, an account of the proceedings in the Cornelia and papers relating to the Africa survey and his work at Fernando Po. There are also papers concerning the settlement founded by Commander Owen, Admiral Owen's father, in Nova Scotia.

Typescript unpublished memoir of Squadron Leader Harry 'Wacker' Pain, 1937-1978, including descriptions of: training as an Aircraft Apprentice, RAF Halton, 1937; wireless operator training in Wallace and Wapiti biplanes; airborne wireless operator training, RAF Driffield, 1939; working for Special Duties Flight, Coastal Command, as a gunner in long range Sunderland flying boats, 1939-1942, including survivor searches after submarine attacks, escorting convoys, account of destruction of flying boats Cabot and Caribou, Bodo, Norway, Apr 1940, training messenger pigeons, serious injury in crash and subsequent reposting as Signals Instructor, 1942, and retraining as an Air Traffic Control Officer, 1943. Also anecdotes from various postings including Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, 1944-1946; opening a new Area Control Centre in Gibraltar, 1946; RAF Mingaladon, Burma, 1947, and RAF Negombo, Ceylon, 1948; Area Control Centre, RAF Watnall, UK, 1949; RAF Gutersloh, Germany, 1954-1957; Air Traffic Controller at RAF Coningsby, 1957-1959; assisting with the introduction of radar guided systems and the formation of Border Radar in RAF Bishops Court, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1959-1962 and RAF Boulmer, Alnwick, 1962-1964; RAF Paya Lebar, Singapore, 1964-1967; as controller, Northern Radar, RAF Lindholme, 1967-1970; RAF Patrington, Withernsea, 1970-1971; Senior Operations Officer, Border Radar, RAF Boulmer, 1971-1973.

Papers relating to Riley's service in World War Two, 1939-1945, with a recent biography, 1989, mostly concerning the training of Commando forces, 1940-1943, including letter from acting Col Colin McVean Gubbins, War Office, dated 8 Jul 1940, thanking Riley for his work in Norway, 1940; correspondence, memoranda, directives and reports relating to the training of Independent Companies in seamanship for raiding purposes, UK, Aug-Oct 1940; correspondence, 1940-1945, including letter, dated Feb 1941, from Capt Kermit Roosevelt, son of former US President Theodore Roosevelt, serving with The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regt), relating to his service in the Western Desert, 1940. Papers relating to the Winter Warfare School, Iceland, 1941-1942, including typescript training notes and exercise memoranda, 1941-1942; typescript text of lecture by Riley entitled 'Arctic warfare', given at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, 13 Oct 1942. Papers relating to Commando training and Combined Operations Command, 1942-1943, including typescript memorandum entitled 'Outline of rations and equipment required for GUNHOUSE' (Operation GUNHOUSE, a small scale Commando raid on Banak airfield, northern Norway, Feb 1943); typescript 'Administrative instructions for special ration trials', relating to the testing of Arctic warfare ration packs, May 1943; typescript memorandum entitled 'The possibilities of wireless communication in small scale raiding' [1943]. Papers relating to 30 RN Commando and 30 Assault Unit, 1943-1945, including typescript memorandum by Riley entitled '30 Assault Unit. Visit to forward areas, Intelligence organisations and GHQ (General Headquarters)', Assam, India, 29 Aug 1944; typescript memorandum entitled 'History of 30 A U (Assault Unit)' [1945]; letter to Riley from Len Whittaker asking for information on 30 RN Commando and 30 Assault Unit for a proposed book on British Special Forces of World War Two, Jul 1973. Edition of The bulldozer. The magazine of Combined Operations, Oct 1942; printed pamphlet by Public Relations Section, International Military Tribunal, entitled 'International Military Tribunal, Nurnberg, Germany, 1945-1946', with brief biographies of defendants and offences committed [1946]. J P Riley: From Pole to Pole: the life of Quintin Riley, 1905-1980 (Anthony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, 1989, 2nd edition 1998), typescript of book, photographs and sketch maps used as illustrations in book, and obituaries of individuals mentioned in the volume.

Records of the Royal Air Force Training Corps, Squadron No 1282 (City of London). The records comprise: Civilian Committee minute book, 1941-7 (Ms 14387); attendance book, 1941-7 (Ms 14388); welfare papers, 1941-55 (Ms 14389); and scrapbook, 1941-6 (Ms 14390). They were catalogued by Guildhall Library staff in 1972.

Papers relating to his life and career, [1931-1936], 1940, 1942-1943, principally comprising 'The army instructor or the instructor and the soldier' and 'The art of lecturing', typescript texts by [Rusbridge], [1931-1936]; detailed lecture notes, [1931-1936], notably on teaching methods and psychology, [1931-1936]; typescript summaries of lectures on psychology by Capt Frederick Wren, delivered at the Army School of Education, Shorncliffe, [1931-1936]; 'Education in the war-time army', printed leaflet issued by the War Office, 1940; bound volume of Current Affairs, journal issued by Army Bureau of Current Affairs, vol 2 nos 27-52, Sep 26 1942-Sep 25 1943. 'Reproductions of water colour drawings of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst', privately printed pamphlet, ND.

Papers of John Patrick Ryland, comprising papers relating to the Home Guard, 1940-1944 and collected material relating to World War One, 1916-1918, Home Guard papers, 1940-1944, comprise published material including Home Guard instructions on training 1940-1944; regulations, 1942, and training manuals, 1940-1944 and unpublished material including instructions for training exercises; notes from training courses and Home Guard examination papers; map of 'Hazebrouck 5a, Belgium', edition 2, scale 1:100,000, Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 2364, published by Ordnance Survey ,1916; map of the Somme, France entitled 'Special Sheet, edition 2 A' showing British and enemy trenches corrected from information received up to 24 Jun 1918, scale 1:20,000, published by the Field Survey Co. No. 3790; German map of France, Belgium and the Netherlands entitled 'Spezialkarte der Nördlichen Westfront' Flemmingskriegskarte No 23, scale 1:320,000, 1916 and 120 degree panoramic photograph Number 304 of the Somme from North North West to East created for the Fourth Army, 16 Nov 1916 and Daily Telegraph War Map of Europe, World War Two, specially prepared for The Daily Telegraph by the London Geographical Institute, displaying neutral and belligerent countries, scale 50 miles = 1 inch.

Command study of the Battle of Gazala, 26 May-21 Jun 1942, produced by the Education Branch, HQ Malta and Libya, 1967.

Copies of papers, 1953-1981, including typescript article by Scotter entitled 'Streamlining the Infantry Division', 1953; three typescript articles by Scotter, 'Streamlining the Infantry Division' [1954], 'Tactics in nuclear war' 1955, and 'Unification-Management and Command' 1970; typescript notes for Joint Services Staff College Exercise GAZETTE, 1959; typescript essay by Scotter on future options for global deployment of British forces, Staff College Camberley Bertrand Stewart essay competition, 1961; correspondence with Maj Gen Terence Douglas Herbert McMeekin, General Officer Commanding 3 Div, on Army relations with civilians, 1968; correspondence with Gen Sir John Mogg, General Officer Commanding in Chief Army Strategic Command, on future planning for Army administration, 1969; typescript memorandum entitled 'Needs for Canadian forces', 1970; correspondence with Maj I E Kerr, Royal Corps of Signals, 1976, on Scotter's command of 19 Infantry Bde (1967-1969); typescript texts of speeches, 1977-1981, including address as Vice Chief of the General Staff to the Director of Infantry's Conference, 1977, and speech made at Headquarters 1 (British) Corps Study Period, Bielefeld, West Germany, 1980; lecture text by Scotter on command and motivation, 1981, prepared as a Kermit Roosevelt lecture to be delivered shortly after his new appointment as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (DSACEUR), though Scotter died before taking office.

Copies of papers coverning the career of Shea in South Africa, France, Palestine and India, general correspondence and lectures, 1897-1966; notably including letters and despatches from the Boer War, 1901-1902, compiled by Shea as an officer in De Lisle's Australian brigade with an account of a march to sieze the drift over the Vet Reiver, accounts and commendations; diaries describing his service in France, 1914-1915; papers on service in Palestine, including correspondence, congratulatory telegrams from Gen Edmund (Henry Hynman) Allenby, Gen Sir Edward Stanislaus Bulfin and Maj Gen Philip Walhouse Chetwode on operations in Palestine, notes on fighting issued to 60 Div, Orders of Battle and composition of British and Turkish forces at Beersheba, Gaza and Jerusalem, other tactical notes, photographs of Jerusalem, encampments, troops crossing the Jordan river, Shea and other officers, and correspondence on the subsequent Official History of Palestine, 1917-1955; material on Shea's India service, principally guidance notes on relations with civilian Indians, notes by Shea on the Duzdap railway line, India-Persia, report entitled 'A review of the Waziristan situation with suggestions regarding the future', correspondence on Shea's address to the 1900 Club and the House of Commons and India Committee on conditions in India, maps of Eastern Command, North West Frontier Province and India in its entirety (3 items), 1921-1933; Camberley Staff College assignment reports on the defence of the land frontier of India and Belgium, and other essays on Basutoland and the balance of power in Europe, 1905-1906; general correspondence with Shea describing retirement, decorations, cavalry in the Russian Civil War (1919-1920), and on cavalry actions in the 20th Century, 1919-1955; notes on Aldershot Interdivisional Army Manoeuvres, 1912; typescript lectures and addresses by Shea on the Palestine campaign under Allenby, and on India, 1918-[1942]; maps and aerial photographs of Flanders, with trench positions, Le Touquet and Macquart, 1915-1916, photographs of Sadowa and surrounding countryside, Czechoslovakia (18 items), pencil sketch map of Swat Valley, India, 1897; obituaries of Shea, 1966.

Papers relating to the life and military career of Maj David Stuart Gilbert Smith, 1950-2003, including: detailed letters home from Korea, 1952-1953; account, 'The third Battle of "The Hook', by Maj Rudolf Edmund Austin, c 1953; details of wanted members of Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA), Cyprus, 1956; instructions on personal security for members of 22 Bn Special Air Service (SAS), [1968]. Album of photographs and press cuttings, 1950-1957, relating mainly to Gilbert-Smith's rugby union career, but also including snapshots of Gilbert-Smith in Korea, 1952, press cuttings relating to his MC following the Battle of 'The Hook', Korea, May 1953, and press cuttings relating to his service with 1 Bn, Duke of Wellington's Regt, Cyprus, 1956; photograph album relating to Gilbert-Smith's command of 22 Bn Special Air Service Mountain Training Centre, Bavaria, Germany, 1965. Winning hearts and minds (Pen Press Publishers Ltd, London, 2003), Gilbert-Smith's theories of leadership, drawing on his military experience.

Records of the South West Essex Technical College and School of Art, later Waltham Forest Technical College and School of Art, 1938-1977, comprising:

Minutes and reports of boards and committees (very incomplete), 1938-1970; Annual Reports, 1939-1965; Constitution of the new Waltham Forest Technical College and School of Art, 1965; Constitution of the Students' Union, 1954; Armorial bearings of the South West Essex Technical College and School of Art; [1959]; Programmes and invitations for ceremonies and events, 1939-1963, notably the official opening ceremony of the College in 1939; Prospectuses and course handbooks (incomplete), 1938-1969; Publications, student magazines and staff articles, 1938-1977; Press cuttings, 1945-1977; Photographs of students, classrooms and the College building, [1950s]-1973; Prints, drawings and maps which were once framed and decorated the walls of the College, 1648-[1950s]; Staff and Student Theses, [1941]-1963.

Papers, mainly on World War One compiled by Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1851-[1974]; notably including official World War One correspondence and telegrams, to GHQ, 1 Army, Gen Douglas Haig, Lt Gen Sir Henry Wilson and other officers, on infantry composition, munitions and artillery, lists of officers, colonial troops, morale, observation and intelligence gathering, the lessons of specific campaigns, the employment of tanks, casualties, prisoners of war (POWs), training, public opinion, operational orders for the French 6 Army by Gen Emile Fayolle, and more generally relations between the French and British armies, meetings, views and opinions by and concerning French C-in-C Henri-Philippe Petain, French Northern Army Commander, Ferdinand Foch, and Robert Nivelle, French C-in-C, 1916-1917, an interview with Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister from Nov 1917, US, Japanese, Greek and other correspondence and communications over Siberia, Japan, Finland, Bulgaria, and demands for independence by Eastern European peoples, US participation in the War and opinions on President Woodrow Wilson, Italian military offensives, precis of interviews with corps and army commanders, manuscript diary (1915), on the Russian civil war, post-war commerce, correspondence with Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on post-war claims, the current political and military situation, especially in Russia, and Versailles peace conference papers, 1914-1920 (Spears Section 1); unpublished material collected by Spears for his publications on the War, including a report of events for 122 Bd, Royal Field Artillery (1916), detailed memoranda and correspondence concerning operations notably comprising copy letters between FM Sir Douglas Haig, Gen Nivelle, and others including to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and on reinforcements, the German postions, the Calais Agreement of February 1917, 1 and 3 Army operations, Franch Army mutinies in 1917, extracts from a diary covering the Battle of Arras, Apr 1917, the politics of liaison, interviews with French and British officers, including French C-in-C Henri-Philippe Petain and Lt Gen Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell reflecting on strategic and other concerns, 1916-1938 (Spears Section 2); printed material by other authors on World War One used by Spears in his published studies, [1917-1964] (Spears Section 3); draft notes and chapters for Spears' published works on World War One, [1919-1974] (Spears Section 4); original source material and notes by Spears on the 1870 Siege of Paris, mainly rough notes and draft chapters on the Siege, original and copy letters from participants describing events and an exercise book containing lecture notes redating the Franco-Prussian War, [1851-1974] (Spears Section 5); newspaper reviews of Spears' books and critics' letters, 1930-1969 (Spears Section 6); material relating to a war memorial at Mons, 1936-1968 (Spears Section 7); personal papers, mainly articles on the life of Spears [1918-1974] (Spears Section 8), maps, principally of Arras, Bullecourt and Mons, during 1917 [1917]-1959 (Spears Section 9); photographic material, post cards and watercolour sketches, including of trenches, damaged buildings, troops and officers, and a visit to the Balkans in 1920, 1914-[1920] (Spears Section 10); photocopies of some items of Second World War material transferred to Churchill College, Cambridge, mainly on the fall of France, General de Gaulle, and French resistance, [1940-1943].

1 Lecture in Combined Training, Lt Col Haking. 2 Changes in War Establishments, Lt Col Capper. 3 General Remarks on the Course, Lt Col May. 4 Contouring Skeleton Map, Lt Col Heard . 5 Criticise McClellan's scheme, after Bull Run, Lt Col May. 6 Hints on an Appreciation of a Situation, Lt Col May. 7 Apprectn by Napoleon, Example of No 6, Lt Col May. 8 Apprectn by Napoleon. Example of No 6, Lt Col May. 9 Letter by Wellington. Example of No 6, Lt Col May. 10 As S.O. to Jackson write Despatch, &c, Lt Col May. 11 Suggest Plan of Campaign in Shenandoah, Lt Col May. 12 Operation Orders for Battle of Adowa, Lt Col Capper. 13 Exercise on War Establishments, Lt Col Capper. 14 Horseback Sketch, Lt Col Heard. 15 Appreciate on 17th Apr as S.O. to Jackson, Lt Col May. 16 Plan of camp Malakand Field Force, Lt Col Capper. 17 Camp with Sketch Map, Lt Col Capper. 18 Post for protection of convoys, Lt Col Haking. Map. 19 Correction. General shape of ground, Lt Col Heard. 20 Make an Aide Memoir for camping, etc, Lt Col Capper.

21 Sketch (1/2 Normal Contours.), Lt Col Heard. 22 Example of Appreciation by Jackson, Lt Col May. 23 As Jackson 26th May 62 write a letter, Lt Col May. 24 Scheme - Billeting, Lt Col Capper. 25 Lecture in Combined Training with Examples, Lt Col Haking. 26 Lecture in Combined Training with Examples, Lt Col Haking. 27 Horseback Sketch, Lt Col Heard. 28 Billeting scheme for small force, Lt Col Capper. 29 Sketch, Lt Col Heard. 30 On ranging, Lt Col Johnston. 31 Detailed billeting scheme, Lt Col Capper. 32 Instns about training with other Arms, Commandant. 33 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Heard. March of a Divn. 34 Outpost scheme, Lt Col Haking. 35 Paper and map of theatre of war in Belgium 1815, Lt Col May. 36 Detailed camping scheme, Lt Col Capper. 37 Sketch, Pewley Hill, St Marthas, Lt Col Heard. 38 Reconnaissance for advance, Lt Col Capper. 39 Orders for No 34 scheme, Lt Col Haking. 40 Military situation in Belgium June 1815, Lt Col May. 41 Arrangements for visit to I. of Wight, Lt Col Johnston. 42 Summary of Artillery lectures and Syllabus, Lt Col Johnston. 43 Report and scheme based on visit to I. of Wight, Lt Col Johnston. 44 Influence of Rys & telegraphs on 1815 campaign, Lt Col May. 45 Syllabus of Field Fortification, Lt Col Johnston. 46 Horseback sketch. March of flank guard, Lt Col Heard.

47 Reasons for Blucher standing at Ligny, Lt Col May. 48 Horseback sketch. March of a Divn, Lt Col Heard. 49 Covering dispositions & demolitions, Lt Col Johnston. 50 Advanced guards, Lt Col Haking. 51 Recon: and orders for attack, Lt Col May. 52 Arrangements for visit to Chatham, Lt Col Johnston. 53 Memo on Chatham lecture about maps, Lt Col Heard. 54 Orders for A.G. operations, Lt Col Capper. 55 Apprectn by Napoleon's C.S.O. before Ligny, Lt Col May. 56 Lessons from campaigns studied at Staff College, Lt Col May. 57 Recon: and report from memory on area of country, Lt Col Heard. 58 Plane table sketch, 2" to 1 mile, Lt Col Heard. 59 Draw map of theatre of war in Roumania 1877, Lt Col May. 60 Advanced guards, changing situation, Lt Col Haking. 61 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Heard. 62 Memory sketch on horseback, Lt Col Heard. 63 Defence of River or Frontier, Lt Col May. 64 Plane table sketch, Lt Col Heard. 65 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Heard. 66 Criticise Thuillier's Land Defence with reference to Combined Training, Lt Col Johnston. 67 Re-write orders of No 63 scheme, Lt Col May. 68 Problem on Transport, Lt Col Capper. 69 Attack of Positions. No 1, Lt Col Haking. 70 Topography examination schemes. 71 As C.S.O. to Russian C-in-C 1877 write memo, Lt Col May. 72 Paper on Jackson's Valley Campaign 1862, Lt Col Haking. 73 Paper on 1877-8 Campaign, Lt Col May. 74 Instructions for laying out a road, Lt Col Heard. 75 Synopsis of course in Mil. History, Lt Col May. 76 Synopsis of course in Coast Defence, Lt Col Johnston. 77 Advanced force covering railway junction, Lt Col May. 78 Appreciation after crossing Danube in 1877, Lt Col May. 79 Syllabus of work done in Staff Duties, Lt Col Capper. 80 Syllabus of work for examination in Tactics, Lt Col Haking. 81 Summary of course in Permanent Land Fortn, Lt Col Johnston. 82 Example of appreciation. Solution of No 78, Lt Col May. 83 Write Orders for 12th July 1877. Advance from Tirnova, Lt Col May. 84 Summary of Lectures on Art. In Defence, Lt Col Johnston. 85 Extract from Skobeleff's Orders, Lt Col May. 86 Short account of battle of Lovtcha, Lt Col May. 87 Military Law, Lt Col Capper. 88 To illustrate lectures on Waterloo, Ligny. Quatre Bras, Maps, Lt Col Haking.

1 List of Reconnaissances Jan to April. 2 Defence of L. of C., Lt Col Haking. 3 Enumerate Strategic Points 1870 Theatre, Lt Col May. 4 Changes in War Establishments, Lt Col Capper. 5 Reconnaisance of Area of Country, Lt Cols May and Capper. 6 Examples of Attack Orders (V Div S.A.), Lt Col Capper. 7 Appreciation on German Mobilization etc, Lt Col May. 8 Railway Exercise No 1. (3 Parties), Lt Col Capper. 9 Notes and scheme on Railways in War, Lt Col Capper. 10 Continuation of No. 2. March and Orders, Lt Col Haking. Continuation of No 2. Raid on L of C (4 parties), Lt Col Johnston. 12 Scheme - March, Bivouac and Ouutpost, Lt Col Heard. 13 Bivouacs and Outposts, Lt Cols May & Capper. 14 'Was McMahon right to fight at Woerth?', Lt Col May. 15 Operations of Cav. 1870. 2 examples, Lt Col May.

16 Map, North France and Belgium, Lt Col May.17 Defence of post, with map, Lt Col Johnston. 18 Defence of post with map, Lt Col Haking. 19 Defence of position behind Loddon R., Lt Col Johnston. 20 Views as to punishment on Active Service, Commandant. 21 Comments on Spicheren and Woerth; and Scheme, Lt Col May. 22 Sketch map of Germany, Lt Col May. 23 List of lectures by Senior Division. 24 Continuation of No 13 Camping, Lt Col Capper. 25 Preliminary Coast Reconnaissance, Lt Col Capper. 26 Reconnaissance for Attack. Orders, Lt Col May.27 Freehand drawing. Practice plate, Lt Col Heard. 28 Disembarkations, Lt Col Capper. 29 'How would you have attacked Spicheren?', Lt Col Haking. 30 On Nautical Astronomy, Lt Col Heard. 31 Write orders as Bazaine on 15 Aug 1870, Lt Col May. 32 Staff Tour. Coast Reconnaissance, Lt Col Capper. 33 Battle of Lisaine; illustrating defence, Lt Col Johnston. 34 Reconnaissance for Defence of River, Commandant. 35 Major Simpson on Disembarkation. 36 Estimate of Time for Disembarkation, Lt Col Capper. 37 Staff Ride, Lt Col Haking. 38 Staff Ride, Lt Col Johnston. 39 Staff Ride, Lt Col Capper. 40 Staff Ride, Lt Col May. 41 On Nautical Astronomy, Lt Col Heard. 42 Recon: Orders for a Cavalry Screen, Lt Col May. 43 Intelligence on Current Military Topics, Lt Col Capper. 44 List of parties for the Battlefields. 45 On German experiences at Gravelotte, Lt Col May. 46 Survey by Astronomical Observation, Lt Col Heard.

47 Flank guard to army retreating, Lt Col May. 48 Freehand sketch of enemy's position, Lt Col Heard. 49 Advanced guard-Demolition-sketch, Lt Col Johnston. 50 General plan of country and camps, Commandant and Lt Col Capper. 51 Draw sketch map of Spain and Portugal, Lt Col May. 52 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Haking. 53 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Capper. 54 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col May. 55 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Heard. 56 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Johnston. 57 Draw up scheme for a Staff Ride, Lt Col Haking. 58 Continuation of 50. March Orders and Camps, Commandant and Lt Col May. 59 Convoy, Lt Col May. 60 King's Review and arrangements, Lt Col Capper. 61 Staff Ride Mountain Warfare, Lt Col Haking. 62 Staff Ride Mountain Warfare and Arrangements, Lt Col May. 63 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Johnston. 64 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Capper. 65 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Heard. 66 Notes on hill warfare, Lt Col May. 67 Set of forms for survey, Lt Col Heard. 68 Attack of a position, Lt Col Johnston. 69 Reconnaissance for attack. Continuation of 50, Commandant and Lt Col Haking.

70 Exercise in marking out a camp, Commandant and Lt Col Capper. 71 Memo on staff details of No 69, Commandant. 72 Defence of a position. Continuation of No 50, Commandant and Lt Col Haking. 73 Modifications in tactics caused by close country. 74 Form for rating watches, Lt Col Heard. 75 Rear guards, etc. Continuation of No 50, Commandant and Lt Col May. 76 Precis and maps of lectures given by S.C. Officers (bound at end of work). 77 Railaway scheme, entraining, feeding, detraining, Lt Col Capper. 78 Panorama sketch. Memory sketch, Lt Col Heard. 79 Forcing passage of a river, Commandant and Lt Col May. 80 On experiences while attached and during manoeuvres, Lt Col Johnston. 81 On ammunition and technical equipment, Lt Col May. 82 Attack of position, Lt Col May. 83 Adanced guards. 4 situations, Lt Col Haking. 84 Reconnaisance with freehand sketch, Lt Col Heard.85 Billeting scheme, Lt Col Capper. 86 Examination Staff Ride. 87 Paper on nature of ground in Staff Tour affecting 3 arms, Lt Col May. 88 Exercise in Imperial strategy. Abyssinia, Lt Col May. 89 Orders for retreat from Gravelotte, Lt Col Capper. 90 Write an account of Battle of Austerlitz. 91 Inroad of Invading Army, Depots etc, Lt Col May. 92 Investment of a fortess, Lt Col Johnston. 93 Continuation of schem 88 Imperial Strategy, Lt Col May. 94 Lecture on electricity given by Capt Seton. 95 Paper on best means of traction for Artillery, Lt Col May. 96 Contoured map of Austerlitz. Lt Col Haking. 97 Comparison of our organization with foreign organization, Lt Col Capper. 98 Write a study of Jena, Lt Col Haking. 99 Write a study of Salamanca, Lt Col Haking. 100 Continuation of Investment Schem, Lt Col Johnston. 101 Extract from Major Handley's lecture. 102 War Game, Lt Cols May & Johnston. 103 Exercise in Imperial Strategy, Lt Col May. 104 Continuation of Investment Schem, Lt Col Johnston. 105 Lectures arranged on Imperial Defence, etc. 106 Remarks on Investment Scheme, Lt Col Johnston. 107 War Game, Lt Cols Capper & Haking. 108 General plan of the boat advance. 109 Map to accompany Col Pratt's lecture.

1 Specimen of Fld Book Traverse to plot, Lt Col Heard. 2 Draw diagram of constn of W.O. Home & India, Lt Col Capper. 3 Contour skeleton map, Lt Col Gough. 4 Precis recommendations made by committee on W.O. organisation, Lt Col Capper. 5 Changes in tactics due to S.A. War, Lt Col Kiggell. 6 Sketch map showing positions of Allies & French in Spain & Portugal, Lt Col Haking. 7 Skeleton map of Virginia to fill in, Lt Col Haking. 8 Plane-table sketch, Lt Col Gough. 9 Sketch of Turf Hill & Saddleback, Lt Col Gough. 10 Series of short lectures based on "Combined training" to Regtl Officers, Lt Col Kiggell. 11 Rapid horseback sketch, Lt Col Gough. 12 Review situation prior to 11.7.61 as S.O. to McDowell, Lt Col Haking. 13 Correct Tables LVI, LVII. LIX & LXI W.E. in accordance with recent changes. 14 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Hough. 15 Tactics No 3. Prepare lecture on "Combined Training" pp. 37 - 68, Lt Col Kiggell. 16 Road sketch, Lt Col Gough. 17 Quote para in "Combined Training" which best illustrate battle of Bull Run, Lt Col Kiggell. 18 Road report, Lt Col Gough. 19 Road report - on bicycles, Lt Col Gough. 20 Precis of 2nd report of W.O. Committee, Lt Col Capper. 21 Write orders Kimball should have issued at Kernstown about 4.30 p.m., Lt Col Kiggell. 22 Fill in and complete map. Contn of No 19, Lt Col Gough. 23 Ride over area of country with view to making memory sketch later. 24 Compare French and our systems of ranging when using indirect fire, Col Johnston. 25 Make table of road spaces occupied by units in W.Est. when in normal order of march, Lt Col Capper. 26/27 Two specimens of freehand drawing, line work, Lt Col Gough. 28 March Orders of Infy Division, Lt Col Capper. 29 Orders, As C. of Staff write operation Orders as for battle of Adowa. 30 Selection of camping grounds, Lt Col Gough. 31 Discuss strategic lessons to be learnt from American Campaign between 24.3 and 17.5.62, Lt Col Haking. 32 Defence of river line, passages, etc., Col Johnston. 33 Panoramic sketches and report, Lt Col Gough. 34 Outposts, Lt Col Kiggell. 35 Details of report required while attached to other arms, Commandant. 36 "Road Spaces" of troops in march formation, Lt Col Capper. 37 River reconnaissance & report, Lt Col Gough. 38 Defence of advanced position with appreciation, Lt Col Kiggel. 39 Continuation of No. 32. Distribution of troops. Details of fortification &c., Lt Col Kiggell. 40 Summary of lectures in artillery 1904, Col Johnston. 41 Example for précis & indexing, Lt Col Gough. 42 Make tabular statement of forces in colonies, Lt Col Gough. 43 River reconnaissance. River Blackwater, Lt Col Gough. 44 Continuation of 38 & 39, Lt Col Kiggell. 45 Discuss probable effect of Napoleon's advancing by Mons in 1815, Lt Col Kiggell. 46 Programme of visit to Woolwich & Chatham, Col Johnston. 47 Continuation of No 44. Counterstroke by G. Reserve, Lt Col Kiggell. 48 Syllabus of Military Engineering, Col Johnston. 49 Theatre of War. Waterloo Campaign, Col Johnston. 50 Defence of Post. Estimate of Time. Tools. &c, Col Johnston. 51Protection of convoy through hostile country, Lt Col Kiggell. 52 Advanced guard-outposts. Sketch & report, Lt Col Gough. 53 Securing passages of River Blackwater, Col Johnston. 54 Rear Guard action, Lt Col Kiggell. 55 Visit to Isle of Wight, Col Johnston. 56 Sum up report of Isle of Wight defences &c, Col Johnston. 57 Horseback sketch, Lt Col Gough. 58 Explain course of Reservist & corps - Mobilization to Embarkn., Lt Col Gough. 59 Details of ammunition of artillery in the Field, Col Johnston. 60 5 maps Waterloo Campaign 16th June 1815, Lt Col Kiggell. 61 Map, Waterloo, morning of the battle, Lt Col Kiggell. 62 Map, Sketch map 1866 campaign, Lt Col Kiggell. 63 S.R. 26th - 29th September, Lt Col Kiggell. 64 Estimate supplies available for detached force. Nature & amount with map, Col Johnston. 65 S.R. 26th-29th September, Col Johnston. 66 S.R. 26th-29th September, Lt Col Gough. 67 Preliminary orders &c. and instructions for party, Lt Col Kiggell. 68 S.R. 26th-29th September, Lt Col Haking; I. General situation. II. Special Idea Red, Lt Col Capper. 69 Syllabus. Staff Duties & Organisation, Lt Col Gough. 70 Camping scheme with outposts, Lt Col Kiggell. 71 Supplies &c. for 2 A.C. & Cav Divn; I. Forecast of supplies. II. Reports, Col Johnston. 72 Continuation of No 70, Lt Col Kiggell. 73 Supply No. 3. Describe arrangements in any British campaign, Col Johnston. 74 Scheme for inter-communication by telegraph of Cav. Bde. Of Advance Guard, Lt Col Gough. 75 Moltke's prospects for 1866 campaign, Lt Col Kiggell. 76 Staff Ride at Reading. See no 65, Col Johnston. 77 Raid on L. of C. of main army, Lt Col Kiggell. 48 1866 Campaign. What steps might each side have taken to mislead adversary? Lt Col Kiggell. 79 Intelligence report of any country abroad known to officers, Lt Col Gough. 80 March orders. 2nd A.C. Continuation of No 70, Lt Col Kiggell. 81 As Intelligence officer draw up memo of Corps requirements for detached force in Persia. 82 March of A.C. to attacj position, Lt Col Kiggell. 83 Supply & Transport. Employment of Mechanical transport in the field, Col Johnston. 84 Comparison of organisation of German, Russian, & English W.O. systems. 85 Syllabus for examination in Military History &c, Lt Col Kiggell. 86 Syllabus for examination in Field Artillery & Supply, Col Johnston. 87 The soldier's ration in peace & war, Col Johnston. 88 Brief Austrian appreciation of evening of 26th June 1866, also orders &c, Benedek should have issued. 89 Contn of No 82. Orders for attack. Lt Col Kiggell. 90 Supply scheme No 5. Siege of Hong Kong, Col Johnston. 91 As S.O. on Wellington's Staff suggest scheme for establishing rapid communication to scattered forces. 92 Arrangements for advanced base for Supply, Col Johnston. 93 Supply No 6. Contn. Of No. 90, Col Johnston. 94 Position of armies evening of 2nd July 1866, Ly Col Kiggell. 95 Principles of martial law, Lt Col Gough. 96 Contn. Of 90. Paper of food values, Col Johnston. 97 Contn. Of No. 90. Estimate of rations available, daily scale &c.

1 L. of Commn of an Army (4 Parties), Lt Col Kiggell. 2 Draw up table of rate of fire, etc, of Field guns, etc., Col Johnston. 3 Paper on invasion of France by Upper Rhine instead of by Palatinate, Lt Col Haking. 4 Contn of No 1. Reconn: of roads, Lt Col Kiggell. 5 Strategic value of railways in India and method of military control, Lt Col Capper. 6 Road sketch, Gough. 7 Notes on Mil: Topography (To Jun.D. also), Lt Col Gough. 8 Contn of No 1. Exam of ground on 4.2, Lt Col Kiggell. 9 As officer on Napoleon III's staff show best course of action in prelimy operations against Germans, Lt Col Haking.

10 Skeleton map Metz to Rhine to fill in, Lt Col Haking. 11 Field book traverse, Lt Col Gough. 12 Contn of No 1. Recon for selection of posts, Lt Col Kiggell. 13 Contn of No 1. Recon for selection of posts, Col Johnston. 14 Railway exercise No 1, Lt Col Capper. 15 Contn of No 1. Railway Recon., Lt Col Capper. 16 Contn of No 1. Reqd for Tuesday an Apprectn; Work for Thursday. Defensive measures, works, etc., Col Johnston. 17 Apprectn of Stn 3.8.70 as S.O. to MacMahon, Lt Col Haking. 18 Railway Reconnaissance, Lt Col Capper. 19 As S.O. to Crown Prince appreciate situation 9 p.m., 4.8.70, Lt Col Haking. 20 I. Cavalry raids on L. of C. apprectn., Lt Col Gough. 21 Railway Recon: (contn of No 1), Lt Col Capper. 22 As officer on German H.Q. Staff suggest best means of crossing Saar on 5.8.70, Lt Col Haking. 23 Detail of French Army at Woerth, Lt Col Kiggell. 24 Illustrate teaching of 'Comd Training' in value of cav : &c, by reference to war in Soth East of France 1870, Col Johnston. 25 Sketch map, Hagenau Forest and Country North, Lt Col Haking. 26 Suggest best means of getting Russian Baltic Fleet to China Sea from Kronstadt, Commandant. 27 River Recon: Contn of No 1, Commandant. 28 Scheme for War Game for Offrs of a Divn, Lt Col Haking. 29 How best to meet difficulties of advance through woods, Lt Col Kiggell. 30 Recon: of ground for Autumn manoeuvres, Commandant. 31 Make table for sea transport of A.C. and Cav Brigade, Lt Col Capper. 32 Sketch map of country between Saar and Vosges Mountains, Lt Col Haking. 33 Details of sea transportation of troops, landing etc., Lt Col Capper. 34 Work out General and Special ideas for manoeuvre scheme, Commandant.

35 Appreciate situation at 4 p.m. 15.8.70, as S.O. to Prince Frederick Charles, Lt Col Haking. 36 Explain how 5th German Cav. Could have rendered assistance between noon and 3 p.m. at Mars-La-Tour, Lt Col Kiggell. 37 Reconnaissance of coast, Lt Col Capper. 38 Recon of coast, preceding Staff Ride, Lt Col Capper. 39 Environs of Metz, Lt Col Haking. 40 Schedule for 2nd part of Staff Ride, Lt Col Haking. 41 Reconnaissance, 5 parties, 28th to 30th March, Lt Col Haking. 42 Reconnaissance, 5 parties, 28th to 30th March,Lt Col Capper. 43 Reconnaissance, 5 parties, 28th to 30th March, Col Johnston. 44 Reconnaissance, 5 parties, 28th to 30th March, Lt Col Kiggell. 45 Reconnaissance, 5 parties, 28th to 30th March, Lt Col Gough.

46 Tonnage required by units for "Long" and "Short" voyages. Lt Col Capper. 47 Reconn: under Commandant. Rear guard actions, Lt Col Kiggell. 48 Attack and defence of positions - Cavalry operations, Col Johnston. 49 French movements round Metz 13-15 Aug '70, Lt Col Haking. 50 4 studies of actions etc at Worth, Gravelotte, Mars-la-Tour and St Privat. 51 Staff Tour 6th to 9th June, 4 parties, Commandant. 52 Reconnaissance, 1st Day-Appreciation and Camps, Commandant. 53 Continuation of Ripley scheme, Disposition of force, Lt Col Haking. 54 Explanation re 2nd Line Transport. Lt Col Capper. 55 Marking out Camp, Lt Col Capper. 56 2 papers-Attack & Defence of positions, I Appreciate Confederate situation at Gettysburg, ii Orders for attack, Lt Col Johnston. 57 Continuation of Ripley scheme-Outposts, Lt Col Jaking. 58 Camping, laying out camp, Lt Col Capper. 59 Laying out camp for Army Corps, Lt Col Capper. 60 Continuation of Ripley Scheme- Appreciation as S.O. to C-in-C, Lt Col Haking. 61 Continuation of Ripley scheme-Defence of position, Lt Col Haking. 62 Continuation of 61 Cantonments, Lt Col Capper.

63 Continuation of No 61. Attack by Blue, Commandant. 64 Staff Tour Mountain Warfare (1/2 Division), Lt Col Haking; Opposing forces with capitals, Lt Col Kiggell. 65 Staff Tour RED-Cheltenham; (1/2 Division), Lt Col Capper; BLUE Southampton, Lt Col Gough. 66 Covering retreat of disorganized force, Lt Col Haking. 67 Arrangements for review, Lt Col Capper. 68 Staff duties during & after battle. 69 Retirement of disorganised force, Lt Col Capper. 70 Detached force operating against invader, Commandant. 71 Description of unit &c to which attached during summer vacation, Commandant. 72 River Reconnaissance, Lt Col Capper. 73 March orders, rear-guard action etc, Commandant. 74 Forcing passage of a river (example Duero), Lt Col Haking. 75 Discuss lessons (strategical and tactical) of Salamanca Campaign, Lt Col Haking. 76 Proposals for Scheme of Manoeuvres 1905 parties representing Army Council, Lt Col Capper. 77 Recon: Re-embrkation of defeated invading force, Lt Col Capper. 78 Inspection Staff Ride. Opposing forces 2 parties Red (Bristol) Blue (Oxford), Commandant. 79 Review campaign of 1805 from Ulm to Austerlitz, Lt Col Haking. 80 Imperial Strategy No. II. Ascertain what foreign territory is bulnerable by raiding forces, Lt Col Aston. 81 Study of possible campaign in Basutoland, Lt Col Haking. 82 As C. of S. Japanese Army, appreciate situation in Far East as at present, Commandant. 83 Continuation of No. 76. Prepare map of area, Lt Col Capper. 84 Battle of Salamanca, Lt Col Haking. 85 Discuss operations round Chancellorsville 1863, Lt Col Haking. 86 Austerlitz, Lt Col Haking. 87 Egypt-Nile Delta, Lt Col Haking. 88 Attack on Foreign trade etc, Paper (M), Lt Col Haking. 90 Amplify and criticise No. 88, Lt Col Aston. 91 Prepare summary for & against France and Spain forming alliance, Lt Col Aston. 92 Defence of Indian Frontier (with state and 2 maps), Commandant. 93 Sketch map Battle of the Alma, Lt Col Haking. 94 Telegraph cables in war. Paper (F.2), Lt Col Aston. 95 I. Germanic Confederation in 1866, Lt Col Haking. 96 Tables showing trade of United Kingdom, Lt Col Aston. 97 II. Germanic Confederation in 1866, Lt Col Haking. 98 Details of armies in 1866 campaign, with map, Lt Col Haking. 99 2 maps 1866 campaign, Lt Col Haking. 100 Tratenau to Nachod, Lt Col Haking. 101 War Game. Investment of Windsor by Invaders, Commandant. 102. Continuation of No. 101 Operations of Field Armies, Commandant. 103 1866. Positions of Austrians and Prussians on 28th and 29th, Lt Col Haking.

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.