Telegrams received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, 1916

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Accession Number RCDIG0000064
Collection number 3DRL/3376 9/3c
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type File
Item count 11
Object type Papers
Physical description 13 Image/s captured
Maker Various
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

This folder contains 11 telegrams, letters, and compilations of telegram messages received and sent by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood between 1 April and 3 September 1916. The subjects of these telegrams include the deaths of Kitchener and Fitzgerald, re-organisation of the AIF, Pozieres, lunch with the Prime Minister, and Anzac Day 1916.
This file contains:
Letter from War Office to Birdwood, 1 April 1916 [includes forwarded telegram from George Foster Pearce to War Office, 31 March 1916]
Telegram from Troopers War Office to Base Commandant Marseilles, AMLO and DADRT, 1 April 1916
Telegram from Troopers War Office to Base Commandant Marseilles, AMLO and DADRT, 2 April 1916
Telegram from Troopers War Office to Base Commandant Marseilles, Birdwood and Brigadier General Cyril Brudenell Bingham White, 2 April 1916
Telegram from Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald to Birdwood, 3 April 1916
Telegram from Prime Minister's Private Secretary to Birdwood, 26 April 1916
Telegram from War Office to Birdwood, 27 April 1916
Telegram from Herbert J Creedy to Birdwood, 7 June 1916
Telegram from Andrew Fisher to Birdwood, 1 August 1916
Telegram from Major General William Eliot Peyton to Birdwood, 12 August 1916
Telegram from Reserve Army to 1st Anzac Corps, 3 September 1916