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Record Id:

040-002015601

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002015596

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001154.0x00025c

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Add MS 48992

Title:

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. IV. Correspondence of Jellicoe with Balfour and others; 1916-1918.

Scope & Content:

Vol. IV (ff. 190). 1916-1918.

includes:

ff. 1-90 Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; Prime Minister: Correspondence with Lord Jellicoe: 1915-1916: Signed and drafts.
f. 99 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver, KCB: Minutes, etc., by: 1916, 1917: Partly typewritten.
f. 99 Admiral Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, KCB: Minute by: 1917.
ff. 99, 107-118 Admiral Sir George Price Webley Hope, KCB: Minute, etc., by: 1917: Partly typewritten.
ff. 120-181 passim Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, GBE: Minutes, etc., by: 1916-1918: Partly typewritten.
ff. 149-151 Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, GCB: Memorandum on Admiralty organisation: 1917: Printed.

Almost all of the correspondence is dated 1916-1917.

Correspondence relates to Naval strategy and the progress of the war, including discussion of: mines, mine-laying and mine-sweeping; merchant shipping and armament; strikes and labour troubles; possible naval offensive against Germany; shipbuilding and ship repairs; the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the possibility of creating a separate air service; the possession of Heligoland; the submarine threat and anti-submarine inventions, suggestions and tactics; details of German submarine construction; Navy staff changes and organisation; proposals by Churchill for operations in Heligoland Bight; and munitions including depth charges, shells and guns. Includes hand-drawn diagram of König ship and diagram of the impact of shells on targets. Also includes Jellicoe’s recommendations of officers to be honoured after the Armistice.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Europeana Collections 1914-1918

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002015596
036-002015598
040-002015601

Is part of:

Add MS 48989-49057* : The Jellicoe Papers
Add MS 48990-48992 : JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Correspondence and papers of Jellicoe as a Lord of the Admiralty, and correpondence with…

Add MS 48992 : JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. IV. Correspondence of Jellicoe with Balfour and others; 1916-1918.

Hierarchy:

032-002015596[0002]/036-002015598[0003]/040-002015601

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1916

End Date:

1918

Date Range:

1916-1918

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