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Object description
An extensive collection of official papers (19 boxes) recording his career as a senior officer with the British Army, September 1901 - November 1921, including: his reports and notes on the planning for the Home Defence of Southern England while attached to the Mobilisation Division, War Office, 1901 - 1902; a large quantity of official correspondence, lectures, memoranda, messages, lectures, orders, reports, and statistics relating to organisation, training, exercises, and Army Manoeuvres within Aldershot Command, August 1909 - July 1914, during his command of 3rd London Brigade (1st London Division TF) and 1st (Guards) Brigade (1st Division), notably a report on the Defence Forces of New Zealand, June 1912 - June 1913, by General Sir Alexander Godley, and reports and correspondence, December 1911 - November 1914, concerning the reorganisation of the British Army from the Eight Company to the Four Company Battalion in September 1913; the action of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Munster Fusiliers (1st Guards Brigade) at Etreux, 27 August 1914; the formation, training and operations of the 18th Division in England and France, August 1914 - February 1917, in particular on the Somme (on 1 July 1916; at Thiepval, the Schwaben Redoubt, and the DESIRE and REGINA Trenches, September - November 1916); the XVIII Corps in the Battles of Arras, April 1917, Third Ypres, July - November 1917 (notably the controversy between Major General Sir John Davidson and General Sir Hubert Gough over tactics, June - August 1917; the operations of the 11th Division, August 1917, the 51st (Highland) Division, July - August 1917 and September 1917, the 58th (London) Division, September - October 1917, and the 63rd (Naval) Division, October - November 1917, and the lessons of the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917); and the German Spring Offensive, March 1918; the operations of the 1st Canadian Division at the Battle of Amiens, August 1918, and the 18th Division from Le Cateau to the Sambre, October - November 1918; his activities as Inspector General of Training, France, June 1918 - February 1919, supervising the training of British and Commonwealth troops and the issue of training leaflets; his command of IX Corps, British Army of the Rhine, at Euskirchen, near Bonn in Germany, January - March 1919, and Northern Command, York, January 1920 - September 1921, including reports on 'Revolutionary Organisations in the United Kingdom' issued by the Directorate of Intelligence, Home Office, February - November 1920; and mentioning many distinguished senior British and Commonwealth officers and personalities, notably: C T Atkinson and Sir John Fortescue; Field Marshals Lord Birdwood, Lord Byng, Lord Chetwode, Sir Cyril Deverell, Sir John French, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Claud Jacob, Lord Kitchener, Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Lord Plumer, Sir William Robertson, and Sir Henry Wilson; Generals Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, Sir John Burnett-Stuart, Sir David Campbell, Sir Sidney Clive, Sir Alfred Codrington, Sir Beauvoir de Lisle, Sir Hugh Elles, Sir Charles Fergusson, Sir William Furse, Sir Richard Haking, Sir Aylmer Haldane, Sir Charles Harington, Sir David Henderson, Sir William Heneker, Lord Jeffreys, Sir John Monash, Sir Archibald Murray, Lord Rawlinson, Sir Thomas Snow, Sir Reginald Stephens, Sir Robert Whigham, and Sir Brudenell White; Lieutenant Generals Sir James Babington, Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon, Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Sir Hugh Jeudwine, Sir Launcelot Kiggell, Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, Sir Herbert Uniacke, and Sir Herbert Watts; Major Generals Sir Thompson Capper, G P Dawnay, J F C Fuller, W H Greenly, Sir William Hickie, Sir Amyatt Hull, S H Lomax, Sir Arthur Lynden-Bell, Sir Reginald Pinney, Sir Harold Ruggles-Brise, T H Shoubridge, A C Temperley, Sir Hugh Tudor, and Sir Hereward Wake; Brigadier Generals J E Gough VC, Sir Gordon Guggisberg, R J Kentish, and Hon R White; Colonels G F R Henderson and Lieutenant Colonel C A'C Repington.
Content description
An extensive collection of official papers (19 boxes) recording his career as a senior officer with the British Army, September 1901 - November 1921, including: his reports and notes on the planning for the Home Defence of Southern England while attached to the Mobilisation Division, War Office, 1901 - 1902; a large quantity of official correspondence, lectures, memoranda, messages, lectures, orders, reports, and statistics relating to organisation, training, exercises, and Army Manoeuvres within Aldershot Command, August 1909 - July 1914, during his command of 3rd London Brigade (1st London Division TF) and 1st (Guards) Brigade (1st Division), notably a report on the Defence Forces of New Zealand, June 1912 - June 1913, by General Sir Alexander Godley, and reports and correspondence, December 1911 - November 1914, concerning the reorganisation of the British Army from the Eight Company to the Four Company Battalion in September 1913; the action of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Munster Fusiliers (1st Guards Brigade) at Etreux, 27 August 1914; the formation, training and operations of the 18th Division in England and France, August 1914 - February 1917, in particular on the Somme (on 1 July 1916; at Thiepval, the Schwaben Redoubt, and the DESIRE and REGINA Trenches, September - November 1916); the XVIII Corps in the Battles of Arras, April 1917, Third Ypres, July - November 1917 (notably the controversy between Major General Sir John Davidson and General Sir Hubert Gough over tactics, June - August 1917; the operations of the 11th Division, August 1917, the 51st (Highland) Division, July - August 1917 and September 1917, the 58th (London) Division, September - October 1917, and the 63rd (Naval) Division, October - November 1917, and the lessons of the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917); and the German Spring Offensive, March 1918; the operations of the 1st Canadian Division at the Battle of Amiens, August 1918, and the 18th Division from Le Cateau to the Sambre, October - November 1918; his activities as Inspector General of Training, France, June 1918 - February 1919, supervising the training of British and Commonwealth troops and the issue of training leaflets; his command of IX Corps, British Army of the Rhine, at Euskirchen, near Bonn in Germany, January - March 1919, and Northern Command, York, January 1920 - September 1921, including reports on 'Revolutionary Organisations in the United Kingdom' issued by the Directorate of Intelligence, Home Office, February - November 1920; and mentioning many distinguished senior British and Commonwealth officers and personalities, notably: C T Atkinson and Sir John Fortescue; Field Marshals Lord Birdwood, Lord Byng, Lord Chetwode, Sir Cyril Deverell, Sir John French, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Claud Jacob, Lord Kitchener, Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Lord Plumer, Sir William Robertson, and Sir Henry Wilson; Generals Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, Sir John Burnett-Stuart, Sir David Campbell, Sir Sidney Clive, Sir Alfred Codrington, Sir Beauvoir de Lisle, Sir Hugh Elles, Sir Charles Fergusson, Sir William Furse, Sir Richard Haking, Sir Aylmer Haldane, Sir Charles Harington, Sir David Henderson, Sir William Heneker, Lord Jeffreys, Sir John Monash, Sir Archibald Murray, Lord Rawlinson, Sir Thomas Snow, Sir Reginald Stephens, Sir Robert Whigham, and Sir Brudenell White; Lieutenant Generals Sir James Babington, Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon, Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Sir Hugh Jeudwine, Sir Launcelot Kiggell, Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, Sir Herbert Uniacke, and Sir Herbert Watts; Major Generals Sir Thompson Capper, G P Dawnay, J F C Fuller, W H Greenly, Sir William Hickie, Sir Amyatt Hull, S H Lomax, Sir Arthur Lynden-Bell, Sir Reginald Pinney, Sir Harold Ruggles-Brise, T H Shoubridge, A C Temperley, Sir Hugh Tudor, and Sir Hereward Wake; Brigadier Generals J E Gough VC, Sir Gordon Guggisberg, R J Kentish, and Hon R White; Colonels G F R Henderson and Lieutenant Colonel C A'C Repington.
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Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1995-09-30
