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Add MS 52460
- Record Id:
- 032-002001996
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002001996
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x0003c7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52460
- Title:
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THE HAIG MEMORANDUM Memorandum of operations on the Western Front during the command of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig; 1916-1918. One of six typewritten copies (see ff. viii, x). Preceded (ff. i-ix) by correspondence, etc., relating to its presentation, 1920, and reservation, 1928, 1950, and followed (ff. 76-78) by three maps of German and British dispositions, etc., 21 Mar. 1918, n.d. Compiled by Haig's successive Chiefs of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell and Gen. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence (see R. Blake, The Private Papers of Douglas Haig, 1952, pp. 365-9, where short extracts are published), revised by Haig and deposited in the British Museum in 1920. Because of its criticisms of the French High Command and the British Government, it was reserved from public use on Haig's instructions until 1940, and then for further periods until 1964 (see ff. i-ii, v, ix). Presented by Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, on the instructions of Earl Haig, in 1920 and hitherto reserved.
Paper; ff. x+78. 1918-1920.
- Scope & Content:
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Army; England: Memorandum of operations on Western Front under command of Sir Douglas Haig: 1916-1918: Typewritten copy.
General Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, Chief of Staff to Douglas, 1st Earl Haig: Compiled: 1918-1920.
Lieutenant-General Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell, Chief of Staff to Douglas, 1st Earl Haig: Compiled: 1918-1920.
includes:
- f. i Lieutenant-Colonel John Herbert Boraston, private Secretary to Douglas, 1st Earl Haig: Letter to Lord Esher: 1920.
- f. ix Sir Frederic George Kenyon, GBE; Director, British Museum: Notes by,: 1920, 1928.
- ff. iii-v Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher: Letter, etc., to Sir F. G. Kenyon: 1920.
- ff. vi-viii Colonel Sir Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram of Clewer Keeper of the Privy Purse: Letters on behalf of George V to Sir F. G. Kenyon: 1928: Signed.
- ff. vi-viii George V of England: Letters on his behalf to Sir F. G. Kenyon: 1928.
- ff. 76-78 Maps and Plans: Military dispositions on Western Front: 1918.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002001996
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002001996
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_52460 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1916
- End Date:
- 1918
- Date Range:
- 1916-1918
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence.
- Custodial History:
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Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig: Memorandum of operations on Western Front under his command, 1916-1918, presented by, in 1920.
Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)