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1/2/B Later Brig Gen Sir James Edward Edmonds (1861-1956) Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives King's College London EDMONDS Brig Gen Sir James Edward Edmonds (1861-1956) [4] DESCRIPTIVE LIST 1 Early Papers & papers about Staff College 1/1 RMA Woolwich 1879-1890 Newspaper reports; examination results; term reports; bills for clothing etc., official correspondence relating to entering RMA in 1879 and appointment as R.E. in 1881. 1/2 Staff College 1894-1897 l/2/A .Copy of staff college regulations; entrance exam 1895; lists of professors and officer students attending 1896-1897; exercises and schemes set for Junior and Senior Divisions with work completed by Edmonds ;including essays on the Waterloo Campaign, Staff Duties and the Defence of India. 1/2/B Later papers staff college and officer training generally. 1907 Home District Military Society Games meetings: Operation orders 1908 List of graduates who lost their lives in the Great War; letter to Barclay .April 1950 about his article on British Generalship, mentioning those killed in war from Staff College; Notes by Edmonds commenting on a memoranda 1906, on staff college course 1907; on British army troubles. Exam paper on field fortifications set at staff college 1908, newspaper cuttings on education in the army, Eastern command printed instructions regarding individual training 1910-11essays by Edmonds on the Kriegs akademie; the staff college article in "the world! 1900, and on Staff and Commandants. Notes on the British Army and neglect of training manuals; Correspondence 1935 with H.J. Creedy about Douglas Haig at Staff DRAFTCollege. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives King's College London EDMONDS II Correspondence II/1 Individual correspondence Arranged in al phabeti cul order. 3 files; A-G, H-N N-Z See the personal name index. II/2 General_ Correspondence 1891-1954 : Arranged chronologically. 4 files: 1891-1919, 1920-1930, 1931-1937, 1938-1954 & undated. This contains many routine letters of thanks or congratulations but some interesting correspondence as v1ell. Undated letters if ten ta Uvely dated have been placed in the sequence or at the end of the relevant year, otherwise at the end of the last file. See the peraonal name index. II/3/ 1-66 Correspondence from • .:i, C, Churchill 1922-1954 Arranged chronolo.r;icalJ.,y. Some of these letters had been separated in to a file on "The WorldCrisis" correspondence, but since most of tbe letters concern this book, all Churchill correspondence has been placed together There are a few notes by Edmonds on casualty figures etc. for "The World Crisis". II/4/1-70 Corresoondence from Lord Haig & Lady Haig 1903-1937 Arranged chronologicallycally. Mostly about the History of the Har (1920 1 s). Lady Haig's letters concerning the diaries and papers, II/5/ 1-22 Correspondence with JS.i.j_or General Sir E. Swinton 1919-1950 Arranged chronologically. Includes some of Edmonds letters to Swinton. II/6 Signatures 2 envelopes containing signatures only, cut from letters sent to Edmonds. 11/7 Franked letters 1827-38 Envelopes with postmarks and seals, sent by various famous people, mostly to a Mr Jones, Coachmaker, of George St., Portman Square. Also several letters 1852, including one to Mr. J. Edmonds Edmond's father]. DRAFT Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives King's College London E.'DMONDS III Memoirs * III/1 [1890's] Chapter XIII. The Armies of the Great Powers in the Nineties. pp 234 onwards, numbered 1 - 15. Typed carbon. 15 pp. with an explanation of the Dreyfus mystery, Typed. carbon 9 pp numbered 1,p 16 - 23. III/2 [1894-7] Chapter XIV. '1.'he Staff College 1896 - 7. Haig, Allenby, Robertson, Dyer, pp. 257 - 283. '.l'yped carbon. III/3 1899-1902 Chapter XVI. South African War: The Jntellie;ence Division 1899 - 1902. pp 307 onwards; '.lyped Carbon 37 pp. III/4 1904-1906 Chapter XIX. General Staff, War Office Intelligence Di vision 1904 - 1906; the Army t;ouncil; Russo-Japanese War; Geneva Conference. pp 358 onwards. Typed carbon 23 pp. III/5 1906-1910 Chapter XX. General Staff, War Office Intelligence Division 1906-1910. Typed carbon 33 pp. III/6 1904-1910 Chapt,er XXI. The Civil Service as seen from the War Office 1904-1910. Pp 414 onwards. Typed carbon 14pp. III/7 1911-1914 Chapter XXII. '.l'he 4 th Division in Peace Time 1911 - 1914; Preparations for war; Coronation: Railway Strike. pp 433 onwards. Typed carbon 50pp. III/8 1914 Chapter XXIII. War: August 19)4, pp 463 onwards. Typed carbon 16 pp. III/9 1914 Chapter XXIV. War 1914, The Battle of Le Cateau The Retreat on Paris: The Battles of the Marne and the Aisne pp 479 onwards, Typed carbon 26 pp. III/10 1915 Chapter XXVI. The War Year by Year: 1915, Gas and nibbling, Vii th Appendix I:- 'l'he Hemoval of Colonel Sir Percy Girouard and Append.ix n:~ Instructions for the Demolition of' Hostile Guns, Typed carbon pp 551 - 563. III/II 1916 Chapter XXVJI, The War Year by Year: 1916. Statesmen and CE:Jnerals, pp 564 onwards. Typed carbon 23pp. III/12 1917 Chapter XXVIII. The War Year by Ye::l.r: 1917. The French Mutinies, Passcendale. Typed carbon 19 pp. zx,1 ;/," III/13 1917/1a Chapter X,.I:X, ··the Winter of 1917/18. 'l'he Eve of the storm 'l'he imp;:em~ War Council. pp 605 onv;anls. Typed carbon 12 pp. III/14 1918 Ci1fi.pter XXX. Five German offensives. March - July 1918, pp 618 onwards. Typed carbon 21 pp, III/15 1918 Chapter XXXI. The E'inal Offensj ve, August - November 1918. :pp 6~9 onwards. 'l'yped carbon lOpp. 111/16 1919 - 49 Chapter XXXII, The Historical Section of the Committee of DRAFTIinperi<1l llefence, Typed carbon pp 649 - 678, III/17 [ 1955] On his retirement, MS 2pp. -l<· Al thout~h the .files ar(.j headed mer::oirs they contain articles and essays on military subjects unconnected to Edmonds.. Chapters I - XII covering pa.ees 1 - 233 were probably miscellan~ous writings that were subsequently split among other files. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives King's College London EDMOlIDS IV Lectures 1908-1947 also Papers relatine- to some of these topics will/be found amongst Edmonds writings, Sections VI & VII. IV/1 1908 January Intelligence in :Suropean Warfare. Confidential. 'l'yped carbon 39 pp IV/2 [ 1900/09] Information in European warfare, Secret. No.- 389, 'l'yped . 4 3 pp IV/3 1908 nov 13 Emergency Powers. Confidential. Typed carbon 7 pp Precis of Papers relating to Emergency Powers Bill. 'l'yped carbon 5 pp; Precis of Papers relatinr, to Control of the Press. Typed carbon 3 pp; Precis of Papers relatin1.: to Control of Aliens. Typed carbon 2 pp IV/4 n.d. 'l'he Powers possessed by the Executive in times of Emergency and i',ar, Secret. No; 384 given at staff College. 'l'yped 39 pp IV/5 n.d. Emergency Povrers. Confidential. Similar to pp 11-12 of above. Typed carbon 3 pp IV/6 1909 Feb The application of the Laws and Usages of War. No.390. Typed carbon with MS alterations 31 pp IV/7/1 1909 Nov The Laws and Usages of war on land col'rected to July 1910, Duplicated 29 pp rv/7/2 1910 Feb 7 Newspaper cutting, Cambridge Daily News. Report of Lecture on "'l'he Application of International Law to land warfare", 2 copies. IV/8 1911 Nov 3 Intercommuni.cati.on and Orders. Given at R.A.M.C. l)raft. MS 12pp IV/9 [post 1918] "1914", Lecture on the war given to Kinn·'s College School. Typed ,ri th M S annotations 19 pp rv/10 [post 1910] Organisation of engineer IntelJi(\'cnce and Information, given at Chatham, '.ryped carbon 8 pp IV/11 1920 Feb 17 I:"!ngincer Inte1Ugence. Delivered to S.11. ];, 'l'yped with MS alterations 25 pp Letter attached dated 22 J,'eb 1921, Edmoncl.s to McQueen forwarding lecture, and footnote added by Andrews? l that he recommend lecture brought out in the journal. DRAFT1 IV/12 1920 ·ciec High controJ. of ,!ar. ':eliverecl to Imperial )efence College Typ0d carbon with MS annotations 26 pp IV /13 1?2f 6] Germany and War. '":elivered to Authors CJ.ub. H S 18 pp JV/14 1941 'l'alk on German Strate,r,:y to Rotary Club, }:raft M S 9 pi1 & newspaper renort. IV/15 1941 ~,ur:nly. ;;elivered to ladies at Blackpool With rou 0 h HS 12 pp IV/16 1947 "191/ill to en,.1 of Marne 'l'yped & H S annotations 15 pp Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives King's College London EDHOND3 ~erican CiviJ. War rr/17/la [1908] Some notes on the operations of Lee and Grant in No;~thern Virginia in Hay and June 1864. 'l'y})ed carbon 20 pp lb 1908 July - Royal Engineers Journal. "Some Notes on the operations of Lee and Grant". Printed 20 pp rr/17 /2 1909 March ,Tournal of Royal Artillery. Lecture given by Edmonds 7tn December 1908, si.mi1ar to above. Printed pp 521-548. IV/18 n.d. The War as a whole 1861-5. No.388- MS 18 pp rr/19 n.d. 1861-65. Jlescription of events from end of 'seven days battle', MS 40 pp rr/20/1 1909 Nov The opening of hostilities and the First Battle of Eull Run. Typed carbon 28 pp rv/20/2 [1911] National Defence. Summar;)' of lectures given by F,cJ.monds on 'l'he Bull Run Campaign during winter 1910-11. IV/21 1909 Nov The Peninsula 1862 1: second part of rr/20/2 above J.
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