Despatches from various fronts. Printed, duplicated and typewritten, including copies of despatches from Sir John French, 1914, further despatches printed in the London Gazette, 1916, and press releases on the Battle of Jutland, July 1916.
Land and Agriculture, including papers on the Acquisition of Land Bill (1919) and the Land Settlement (Facilities) Bill (1919). Mostly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda.
Cadet training and volunteers. Mostly printed and typewritten, including correspondence of Lansdowne with General Sir William Campbell, Lord Kitchener and others concerning the Wiltshire Volunteer Training Corps.
Navy, Shipping and the Air Service. Printed, chiefly Cabinet and War Committee memoranda, some with marginal notes by Lansdowne, including a paper by Admiral Sir John Fisher (First Sea Lord) on the position of the British fleet, January 1915, and papers by Winston Churchill on Admiralty matters.
Dardanelles. Mostly printed, chiefly Cabinet and War Committee memoranda, including copies of despatches from Sir Ian Hamilton, papers by Winston Churchill on Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, maps and meteorological charts of the Mediterranean, and a copy of the Report of the Dardanelles Commissio...
Papers on Scandinavia, Egypt and the Suez Canal, Turkey, the Cameroons, Palestine, Poland, Asia Minor and Constantinople
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Papers on Scandinavia, Egypt and the Suez Canal, Turkey, the Cameroons, Palestine, Poland, Asia Minor and Constantinople. Printed, chiefly Cabinet memoranda, including a map of Eastern Turkey, Syria and Persia showing the division of British and French spheres of influence under the Sykes-Picot ...
Papers on America and the War, India and the War, and the Freedom of the Seas. Mostly printed and typewritten, chiefly Cabinet memoranda and newspaper cuttings, with a few items of related correspondence, including a letter from Thomas Gibson Bowles (on maritime rights, 1918).
Naval and military war pensions, including papers on the War Pensions Bill (1915) and the proposed Ministry of Pensions. Printed and typewritten, chiefly Cabinet memoranda and parliamentary papers.