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Listing continued from ADM 137/452/1. Folios 160-161: Colonel George Aston. Remarks...

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/452/2

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Reference
ADM 137/452/2
Date
1913-1915
Description

Listing continued from ADM 137/452/1.

Folios 160-161: Colonel George Aston. Remarks on War Office notes (undated), handwritten note.

Folios 162-163: Admiral Sir Henry Jackson. Question of occupying a base in neutral territory (undated), handwritten note.

Folios 164-168: First Lord (Winston Spencer Churchill), handwritten paper on attack on Sylt, dated 2 December 1914.

Folios 169-172: 3rd Sea Lord. Possibility of reducing draft of certain ships, dated 2 December 1914, handwritten notes.

Folios 173-176: Naval Secretary. Attack on Sylt (undated). To First Lord [Winston S Churchill]. Response to First Lord paper on attacking Sylt, (folios 164-168).

Folios 177-181: M.P.A. Hanky, Committee of Imperial Defence. Enclosing memorandum of Mr A.J. Balfour on seizing of oversees base, 3 December 1914. Response to Winston Spencer Churchill’s paper, (folios 164-168).

Folios 182-183: Sir Henry Francis Oliver, Chief of Staff. Remarks on Sylt and Borkum, dated 15 December 1914.

Folios 184-187: Vice Admiral Commanding Channel Fleet, Lewis Bayly on HMS Lord Nelson. Proposal for offensive movement (copy), dated 24 December 1914, (for original submitted to Secretary see paper M 0087/1914).

Folio 188: Vice Admiral Lewis Bayly. Proposal for offensive movement, 25 December 1914, handwritten note to"Dear W Churchill".

Folios 189-193: First Lord (Winston Spencer Churchill). Capture of Sylt, dated 3 January 1915, (handwritten paper).

Folios 194-198: Roger Keyes, Commodore (S). Defence of Borkum by torpedo craft, dated 4 January 1915, handwritten note submitted in compliance with First Lord [Winston Spencer Churchill] verbal directions.

Folio 199: Captain Richmond. Capture of Borkum, (undated), handwritten note.

Folio 200-207: Unsigned. Paper titled"Attack upon Danzig" (undated).

Minute of First Lord, 9 August 1914 (paper M 05197/1914).

Folios 209-210: Minute of First Lord [Winston Spencer Churchill] on proposed advance flotilla base at mouth of River Elbe (paper M 05197/1914), handwritten memorandum marked"very secret".

Papers of Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, September 1914 to April 1915 (paper X 4114/1914) The capture of Heligoland, (folios 211-322).

Folios 212-221: Letter to First Lord [Winston Spencer Churchill] with plan for bombardment. Handwritten note “Dear Mr Churchill” and signed AJW, 10 September 1914.

Folios 222-288: System of range finding, marking and precaution against mines. Handwritten drafts [by Admiral Wilson] with charts (folios 249-251), typed draft orders and notes.

Folios 289-298: Draft order to Admiral Cecil Burney, dated 5 November 1914. Handwritten draft and typed order. Folio 297 is copy of a telegram received from HMS Indefatigable via Malta dated 6 November 1914, concerning firing on forts at Seddul Bahr, activity at Helles and submarine B11 entering the Dardanelles Borkum and Sylt.

Folios 299-301: Minute of First Lord and notes, undated and unsigned, titled “Plan for a reconnaissance of Borkum”.

Folios 302-309: Typed version of minute of First Lord [Winston Spencer Churchill] (see folio 193) and notes, dated 3 January 1915. Signed “WSC”. Starts “All preparations should be made for the capture of Sylt”. Handwritten notes follow in folios 305-309, undated and unsigned.

Folios 310-312: Remarks on an unspecified document, dated 29 March 1915 and signed AKW [Arthur Knyvet Wilson].

Folios 313-315: Minute of Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, 31 March 1915, to First Sea Lord [Winston Spencer Churchill] with comments on paper proposing advanced base in Holland/Heliogoland etc.

Folios 316-317: Covering note and sketch sent to Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson with sketch of Monitor.

Folios 318-321: Handwritten notes to Director Naval Operations unsigned and undated concerning guns on Monitors and release of ships from Dardanelles.

Folio 322: List of charts etc accompanying papers of Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson as filed in ADM 137/552.

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ADM 137

Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War

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