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Major Accessions to Repositories 1997 relating to the Military
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National, Special and University
- Lt Henry F Maxse and Lt Frederick Maxse: corresp during the Crimean War (Add MSS 73526-7)
- Papers rel to visit to Britain of Chinese military delegation 1896 (Vickers)
- Conal Condren (d1993), chief photographer, secret weapons establishment, Woolwich: photographs and papers (CNDN)
- Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry (1906-95), public servant: papers rel to code breaking at Bletchley Park (MNBY)
- Royal Air Force: Middle Wallop, fighter controllers log book 1954-65 (TCD MS 10998)
- Jim Braid, private (addnl): corresp 1914-17
- Captain George Eric Barclay: corresp rel to Northern Nigeria Regiment campaigns in Cameroons and East Africa 1913-17
- Brigadier James Michael Calvert: papers rel to Royal Engineers, Chindits, Special Air Service and counter-insurgency 1933-53
- Captain Charles Frazer Harrington Churchill: papers rel to naval career 1914-46
- Noel William Bailey Clarke, civilian internee in Shanghai: papers 1943-45
- Admiral Philip Wylie Dumas (1868-1948): journals as naval attaché in Berlin
- Lt-General Sir Thomas Ralph Eastwood (1890-1959): diaries and papers rel to Russia and general staff
- Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Alastair Ewing: papers 1923-62
- Lt-Colonel John Euston Bell Finlay: papers rel to Australian branch of Special Operations Executive 1945-79
- Wing Commander Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane, RAF: corresp 1939-45
- Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt: papers rel to high seas arrest and execution 1916
- Lt-Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham Bt (1892-1980): diary and papers rel to Machine Gun Corps in Mesopotamia during World War I
- General Henry Sinclair Horne, Baron Horne (1861-1929) (addnl): diaries, corresp and papers rel to Western Front during World War I
- Major Archibald Frederic Maclean Jack: papers rel to Special Operations Executive in Yugoslavia 1943-44
- Dr Otto John, head of West German intelligence service: papers incl trial for treason c1930-1955
- Ralph Malcolm Macdonald King, prisoner of war in Japan: diary 1943-45
- Colonel Charles Wesley Weldon McLean (1882-1962) MP: corresp rel to service in artillery and as MP
- Brigadier Ronald Montague-Jones: papers rel to Royal Engineers 1925-60
- Sir Tom Normanton, staff officer: papers 1944-45
- Frank Owen Salisbury, historical and ceremonial portrait and landscape painter: corresp rel to portrait of Jack Cornwell VC 1916-18
- Miss Winifred Seymour, nursing orderly: diaries rel to service in Salonika 1915-16
- Mervyn Cecil ffrank Sheppard (later Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard), civilian internee in Singapore: papers 1942-45
- Brigadier Philip Royal Smith-Hill: papers rel to Royal Marine service 1919-40
- Miss Lucy Whitehead: letters from servicemen 1914-18
- Samuel Mostyn Forbes Woodhouse, chaplain to the forces in the Middle East: papers 1940-43
- Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1881-1926) MP and war correspondent: papers rel to Boer War, journalism and political career
- Lt-Colonel Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce Bird (1908-72): account of operations of North Staffordshire Regiment during World War II
- Air Commodore Colin Simson Cadell (1905-96): memoir rel to his RAF career incl the development of radar
- Sir Frank Cooper, civil servant and industrialist (addnl): notes and papers rel to Northern Ireland and defence issues 1973-84
- Commander Anthony Tosswill Courtney (1908-88): papers rel to the Soviet Union and the Monday Club
- Alan John Pitts Crick (1913-95), diplomat and intelligence officer: notes and papers rel to intelligence work
- Lt-Colonel Philip Mawbey Edgell (1907-97): papers rel to Royal Army Service Corps during World War II
- Lt-Colonel Walter George Hingston (1905-93): papers rel to service in Indian Army
- Lt-Colonel Evelyn Lindsay-Young (1893-1986): papers rel to career
- General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts (1898-1986): papers rel to career incl diaries and memoirs
- Sir Cuthbert Sprawson (1877-1956), Director General of the Indian Medical Service: memoir rel to career
- Lt-Colonel George Greville Woods (1870-1947): papers rel to China and India incl photographs
- 30 Assault Unit (RN and RM): corresp and papers rel to operations 1942-46
- William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester (1776-1834): letters from Lord Moira (9711-1)
- Captain John Carter Atherley, Coldstream Guards: journal of Flanders campaign 1794 (9710-131)
- Flight Lt Humphrey Rawstone Carmichael (1914-95): log book (9710-132)
- Captain Geoffrey Dempsey, Royal Garhwal Rifles: diary of trek in Himalayas 1942-43 (9710-74)
- Corporal Thomas Dunn: journal of 1st Afghan War (9712-67)
- Major Thomas Peter Harvey (1837-73): corresp and papers (9707-47)
- Major Mervyn Charles Holmes, 10/11th Sikh Regiment: papers 1940-46 (9708-48)
- Lt-Colonel Sir Hoel Llewellyn (1871-1943): papers (9702-13)
- Major-General Henry John Milnes MacAndrew (1866-1919): letters from South Africa (9706-48)
- Lt Lewis Benjamin Muret, Madras Artillery: diary and commonplace book 1783-86 (9710-130)
- General Lord Rawlinson (1864-1925) (addnl): telegram and message books rel to Sudan and South Africa (9707-19)
- General Sir Alexander Ross (1742-1827): letters from 1st Marquess Cornwallis (9704-115)
- Lt-General Sir William Warre (1784-1853) (addnl): corresp and papers (9705-67)
- Army (Womens) Central Sport Committee: minutes 1949-88 (9710-144)
- Auxiliary Territorial Service and Womens Royal Army Corps: unit records 1938-92 (9710-148-163)
- Dogra Regimental Association: files and records 1908-97 (9710-133)
- 3rd Lincolnshire Militia: company account book 1799 (9712-41)
- Old Contemptibles Association, City of Oxford branch: records 1937-79 (9703-37)
- Queen Marys Army Auxiliary Corps Old Comrades Association and Womens Royal Army Corps Association: council minutes 1919-80 (9710-145)
- Sir John Gordon Crabbe (1892-1961), Colonel, Royal Scots Greys: memoirs rel to battle of the Marne (copy) (Acc 11460)
- James Scott Elliot, Major-General: military, archaeological and historical papers c1920-90 (Acc 11499)
- Ian MacBeth Robertson, civil servant: diaries, poems, military and literary papers 1936-60 (Acc 11440/some restricted)
- Military Education Committee, East Midlands: records 1931-87 (ACC 1493)
- Major-General Charles John Bruce Hay (1877-1940), Indian Army: diaries and letters as a subaltern (Mss Eur F234)
- Wlliam Porter, private, Madras Artillery: letters 1828-57 (Mss Eur G128)
- General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine (1899-1965) (addnl): papers (WO 236)
- Air Ministry (addnl): private office papers 1947-61 (AIR 19)
- Ministry of Defence (addnl): private office files 1954-74 (DEFE 13)
- Edith M Pye (1875-1965): papers rel to relief work in Spain during the civil war
- FW Benson: Boer War corresp 1900-01 (MSS Afr r 246)
- Major JBLH Cordes: log books and papers as Handley Page test pilot (AC 1997/75)
- Captain OP Jones: papers rel to service in the Royal Flying Corps and career with Imperial Airways and British Overseas Airways Corporation (AC 1997/116)
- Neal OConnor medal collection: papers rel to World War I airmen (AC 1997/93)
- General George Wade (1673-1748): papers rel to service in Flanders and Scotland 1722-46 (GD1/1204)
Local Repositories in England
- Captain EC Maier: papers c1914-1980 (X550)
- Major Frank Sutton: papers c1914-1980 (X550)
- 74th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army): papers 1939-45 (40965)
- Buckinghamshire Battalion Old Comrades Association: minutes and branch papers 1958-94 (T/A 6)
- Cambridgeshire Regiment: records and war diaries incl those of predecessor 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion The Suffolk Regiment 1890-1960
- Chester Rifle Volunteers: company muster roll 1859-60 (D5491)
- E Ladds: papers rel to Home Guard service, Derby 1940-44 (D4711)
- H Tucker: records rel to Air Raid Precautions and Civil Defence, Derby 1916-43 (D4727)
- Derbyshire Civil Defence: records c1940-60 (D4710)
- Ashbourne Home Guard: records 1940-42 (D4726)
- Sandiacre Air Raid Precautions: wardens papers 1943 (D4785)
- Board of Ordnance, Royal Powder Mills, Waltham Holy Cross: letter book 1808 (D/DWm)
- Trumpeter, Hertfordshire Yeomanry: diary rel to service in Egypt 1916-19 (Acc 3280)
- Major Craven: war diary 1914 (TR3396)
- Sir Robert Garrett, (1794-1869), Colonel: corresp rel to the Crimean war 1854-56 (microfilm) (EK1997/19)
- John Owen, Preston: papers incl records rel to World War I and Chinese Labour Corps 1910-20 (DDX 2158)
- Alan Miles: corresp and photographs as an evacuee in Brighton, Bideford and Ystrad 1939-44 (A97/23)
- Thomas Holgate, London Rifle Brigade: diary 1917 (Misc/1030)
- Ransom family of Holt: papers incl letters of Lt Geoffrey F Ransom, prisoner of war in Colditz castle (MC 695, 1615)
- Thomas Lord, wool merchant, Norwich: perambulation of city churches and list of regiments billeted in the city 1793-1885 (MC 1619)
- Erpingham Rural District Council: record of war damage to buildings 1940-44 (Acc 13/1/97)
- Oldham National Service Committee: minutes 1917 (B-CBO)
- Oldham Tank Week Committee: minutes 1918 (B-CBO)
- Leonard Charles Blackman, private, Australian Imperial Force: corresp and papers 1916-18 (DE586)
- Vivian Victor L Peacock, Royal Flying Corps: notebook rel to aircraft and flying c1918 (DE577)
- David Rumsey, private, Sherwood Foresters: letters and papers 1917-18 (DE580)
- Denis Dyson (1904-97), physics master, King Edwards School, Stratford-upon-Avon: papers incl records rel to school and World War II civil defence duties (DR 955)
- Private Collins, Ewell: corresp 1940-41 (6374)
- Manchester Regiment (addnl): records incl diaries and papers 20th cent
- Royal Air Force Association, Trowbridge branch: minutes and accounts 1946-91 (3057)
- William Smith, private, 2/23 Regiment of Fusiliers: accounts 1858-68 (DX/476/1-3)
- 26th Staffordshire (Willenhall and Wednesfield) battalion of Home Guard: records 1942-44 (DX/459)
Local Repositories in Scotland
- Tinwald parish: lieutenancy lists rel to volunteers 1803 (RGD 302)
- Kidd and Lorimer families of Broughty Ferry, Dundee: papers incl World War I corresp of David Kidd, private, Black Watch, 1866-1955
- Conscientious Objectors, Glasgow branch: records 1940-46 (TD1398)
- Baillie family of Dunain, Inverness-shire: family and estate papers incl Macdonnell of Glengarry papers, records of Inverness-shire Fencibles and corresp and accounts rel to military service in India c1724-1869 (HCA/D456)
- Baillie James Lewis: diary rel to civil defence 1941 (U84)
- 7th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers: records 1882-97 (U72)
Local Repositories in the Channel Islands
- Richard Perchard: papers rel to army career 1940-45 (L/F/33)
- Le Brocq collection: corresp, papers, plans and photographs rel to liberation of the Channel Islands 1943-46 (L/C/34)
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