Treatises relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1931-1937

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Accession Number	AWM2018.785.73
Collection number	PR88/009
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Item
Item count	1
Object type	Papers
Physical description	57 Image/s captured
Maker	Durrant, James Murdoch Archer
Place made	Australia, United Kingdom
Date made	1931-1937
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Places

Accession Number

AWM2018.785.73

Collection number

PR88/009

Collection type

Digitised Collection

Record type

Item

Item count

Object type

Papers

Physical description

57 Image/s captured

Maker

Durrant, James Murdoch Archer

Place made

Australia, United Kingdom

Date made

1931-1937

Conflict

First World War, 1914-1918

Source credit to

This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Treatises relating to the First World War and Interwar service of Colonel James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1931-1937.

This file is comprised of papers written and collected by James Murdoch Archer Durrant during the Interwar period. The papers written by Durrant address overarching military subjects such as the prevention of war and the principles and practices of military administration. The papers collected by Durrant also examine broad military themes, but are largely focused on the First World War and include a critical analysis on the contrasting approach to leadership of British staff officers and their regimental counterparts.

This file contains:

Paper titled 'The Prevention of War' by Colonel J.M.A. [James Murdoch Archer] Durrant, Australian Staff Corps, 3 June 1931 [annotated];
Paper titled 'Army Administration and War' by Colonel J.M.A. [James Murdoch Archer] Durrant, Australian Staff Corps, Army Headquarters, Melbourne, May 1937;
Paper titled 'Staff and Regimental Officers' by Major-General H. [Henry] Rowan-Robinson, [undated]; and
Paper titled 'The Study of Military History' including extracts from a lecture given by Field Marshal Sir W.R. [William Robert] Robertson, [undated].