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Description: | Papers relating to his military service with the Connaught Rangers in India and attached to the King's African Rifles in Uganda (1886 - 1902); his ms diary kept while he was Director of the British Red Cross Services in Greece during the First Balkan War (October 1912 - January 1913); papers relating to his visits to Persia (1912) and Russia (1913 - 1914); a ts report (29pp) on Britain's unpreparedness for war, written in 1912 after he had resigned his appointment as GSOI Western Command; papers collated while he was Chief of the British Military Mission attached to the Italian Army in the Field and head of the International Mission for the Control of the Plebiscite area of Klagenfurt, Austria (1916 - 1919) including his official letter to the King of Italy, the Prime Minister Lloyd George, various senior War Office officials and Lord Stamfordham (Private Secretary to King George V), notes on conversations with General Pennella and Marshal Badoglio concerning military operations (1918), correspondence in English, Italian and French received by him from Benes, Mussolini, Marconi, Elinor Glyn, Vittorio Orlando, Generals Brusati and Cardorna, Lord Derby, Generals Lord Caran and Sir Harold Walker, Field Marshals Lord Plumer and Sir Henry Wilson, Lord Stamfordham and other senior British and Italian officials and two items relating to the Italian poet warrior Gabriele d'Annunzio; diaries from 1920 - 1929 covering his frequest visits to Italy, the League of Nations in Switzerland and other European countries and providing a detailed record of his tour of North and Central America (1922) with references to the many distinguished Americans whom he met, including the Roosevelt family, the inventor Jack Hays Hammond and men and women prominent in the film industry and giving also his observations on the political and military situation in Mexico and Panama; papers (1920 - 1925) mentioning the political situation in Italy and the United States; papers relating to his three brothers including vivid descriptions of military operations in South Africa during the Boer War and the situation in Peking, China, during cival disturbances (1922).
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Catalogue date 2004-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Delme-Radcliffe, Charles | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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