Correspondence with War Office and other superior authorities – mainly cables re. organisation of corps in Egypt and appointment of General Birdwood as corps commander

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Accession Number RCDIG0000097
Collection number 3DRL/3376 11/12
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 17
Object type Letter
Physical description 77 Image/s captured
Maker Various
Date made 1914-1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

This file consists of telegrams exchanged between the War Office and other authorities from 23 November 1914 to 22 March 1915. Some of the correspondents are General Sir Beauchamp Duff (Commander in Chief, India), Sir John Grenfell Maxwell (General Officer Commanding, Egypt), and Lord Kitchener. Some of the topics discussed in these telegrams are Birdwood's appointment to command the Australian and New Zealand troops, provision of supplies, transport, training resources, and finance matters. An item of note in this file is a transcript of telegrams received from various sources between 24 December 1914 and 22 March 1915. The file itself was identified as Item 16 on Birdwood's original listing of files related to the Dardanelles campaign. This original list can be found in 3DRL/3376 11/15 File 1.
This file contains:
Telegram number 2197 from the Secretary, War Office to [General Sir Beauchamp Duff], 23 November 1914
Telegram number 8073-W from [General Sir Beauchamp Duff] to the Secretary War Office, 25 November 1914
Telegram number 22-37-C-S from the Secretary War Office to [General Sir Beauchamp Duff], 26 November 1914
Telegram number 8203 from [General Sir Beauchamp Duff] to the Secretary War Office, 27 November 1914
Telegram number 8263-W from [General Sir Beauchamp Duff] to the Secretary War Office, 28 November 1914
Telegram number 8267-W from [General Sir Beauchamp Duff] to [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], 28 November 1914
Telegram number 8273-W from [General Sir Beauchamp Duff] to [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], 28 November 1914
Telegram number 4842 from the Secretary of State for War to [General Sir Beauchamp Duff], 28 November 1914
Telegram from the Secretary War Office to [General Sir Beauchamp Duff], 29 November 1914
Telegram number 8533-W from Chief of the General Staff (Delhi) to Chief of the Imperial General Staff (London), 2 December 1914
Telegram number 8542-W from [General Sir Beauchamp Duff] to [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], 2 December 1914
Telegrams exchanged between Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener and General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, 18 November - 17 December 1914
Telegrams between War Office and [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], 3 - 14 December 1914
Telegram number 396E from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Lord Kitchener, 15 December 1914 [draft]
Telegrams from various to [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], 12 - 17 December 1914
Telegrams between [General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell], War Office (London), GOC New Zealand Contingent and New Zealand Defence Minister, 14 - 20 December 1914
List of items of correspondence with the War Office, 24 December 1914 - 22 March 1915