[ALANBROOKE: 3 Training] papers, [1906]-1935
[ALANBROOKE: 3/1-7 ] Exercise books, Staff College notes and related papers, [1906]-1935
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[1906-1919]
Exercise book containing notes by Brooke on the Indian Mutiny, 1857. 1 vol
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[1906-1919]
Exercise book containing notes by Brooke on the Valley Campaign of the US Civil War, 1862, dated [1906-1919]. With loose printed text of lecture by Maj [Ernest Frederic] Hall, [1909-1919], entitled 'The lessons that can be drawn with regard to the leading of hastily and imperfectly trained troops, from the experience of the operations in the Eastern theatre of the American Civil War, up to the 3rd May, 1863'. 1 vol
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[1906-1919]
Exercise book containing notes by Brooke on the US Civil War, 1864, dated [1906-1919]. With loose printed text of lecture by Lt Col James Edward Edmonds, 1908, 'The campaign in Virginia in May and June 1864'. 1 vol
[ALANBROOKE: 3/4]
[1906-1919]
Exercise book containing notes by Brooke on the Second Afghan War, 1878-1880, dated [1906-1919], and related lecture notes by Brig Gen James Ronald Edmondston Charles, General Staff, Staff College, Camberley, 1919. 1 vol
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[1906-1919]
Exercise book containing notes by Brooke on the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. With loose cutting of reprint of 'The experience of the Russo-Japanese War' by Capt Walter Louis John Carey, originally published in the Journal des Sciences Militaires, Jul 1906. 1 vol
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1917-1920
Binder containing lecture notes taken by Brooke during Senior Staff Course, Cambridge, 1917-1918, and at Staff College, Camberley, 1919, notably on 'G' and 'Q' staff, army training and fighting services. With two loose press cuttings, 31 Jan 1920, on scheme for the reconstitution of the Territorial Force proposed by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for War. 1 vol
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1919, 1926-1935
'FSR (Field Service Regulations) operations: extracts from military history and remarks on recent war', notes made by Brooke at [Staff College, Camberley], 1919. With list of military books read by Brooke, Oct 1926-Jan 1935, with brief commentaries on each entry. 1 file
[ALANBROOKE: 3/8/1-7]
[1914]-1925
Typescript texts of lectures on artillery, delivered by Brooke to Senior Division, Staff College, Camberley, 1923. Subjects covered include artillery power, the organisation of artillery command, artillery intelligence, artillery in attack, counter battery work, super artillery and artillery in the defence. With related papers, notably photographs of railway guns, [1914-1918];'Super-heavy flat trajectory guns', English translation of part of German Army manual, 1917, issued by General Staff (Intelligence), General Headquarters, France, 1918; offprint of 'The long range gun', text of lecture by Maj John Francis Richard Norman Maitland-Addison, delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution, 1918, extracted from the Royal Artillery Journal, vol 45 no 4, [1918]; typescript copy of statement, 21 Jan 1919, by S M Cleave, Commander, 471 Siege Battery, on shelling of Douai, France, [1918]; typescript notes [by Brooke] on lectures on counterbattery tactics by Maj Penrose and Lt Col [Archibald Henry] Moberly, [1919-1923]; cutting on 'Big Bertha', German long-range gun, from The Times Engineering Supplement, Apr 1920; summary of lecture on artillery in the defence, adapted from earlier lectures, 1923-1924, and delivered by Brooke to Junior Division, Staff College, Camberley, 1925. 1 file
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1924 Jan 24-1924 Apr 14
Texts of lectures on the evolution of artillery in World War One, delivered by Brooke to Senior Division, Staff College, Camberley. Subjects covered include equipment, organisation and tactics. 1 file
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[1924]
'Evolution of artillery in the Great War, 1914-1918', bound copy of offprints of articles by Brooke from the Royal Artillery Journal, vols 51-53, based on his lectures to Senior Division, Staff College, Camberley. 1 vol
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1925
Texts of lectures on artillery, delivered by Brooke to Junior Division, Staff College. Subjects covered include weapons, organisation, ammunition, gunnery, brigade and battery tactics, close-support weapons and anti-tank tactics, cooperation with aircraft, artillery in the attack, artillery in the defence, and artillery at the Battle of Le Cateau, 1914. With related exercise papers and programmes of visits and demonstrations. 1 file
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1927-1933
Papers relating to the higher direction of war, including texts of Imperial Defence College lectures by Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey and Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, 1927, and Maj Gen John Frederick Charles Fuller, 1933, on current organisation of high command and possible improvements; text of Imperial Defence College lecture by Sir Herbert (James) Creedy, 1927, on the history and organisation of the War Office; Imperial Defence College exercises on the higher direction of war, 1927, 1933; notes by Brooke on Imperial Defence College debate on higher command of military and air forces in peace and war, 1930. 1 file
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1933-1934
'The preparation of combined appreciations for a major war', text of Imperial Defence College lecture by [Brooke], 1933. With amended version, 1934. 1 file
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[1929-1934]
Staff lists and course attendence lists for School of Artillery and Imperial Defence College, [1929-1934]. With routine orders by Col Lawrence Taunton Raikes, Officer Commanding, School of Artillery, 20 Jan 1931. 1 file
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[1919-1936]
Papers relating to tour of Le Cateau battlefield, France, 1933, organised by War Office for Army officers and directed by War Office and Army personnel, including maps printed by War Office and Royal Engineers Litho Department, [1924-1933], showing the position of Allied and German troops before and during the Battle of Le Cateau, France, Aug 1914; text of lecture by Brooke on artillery at the Battle of Le Cateau, delivered to Junior Division, Staff College, 1925; instructions, 1933, for exercise for tour attendees on Battle of Le Cateau. With letter, 29 Oct 1936, to Brooke from [S F Rowell], 44 Div Headquarters, Woolwich, thanking Brooke for lending him the above papers. 1 file
[ALANBROOKE: 3/16/1-12]
[1909-1935]
Papers relating to tour of the Aisne battlefield, France, 1934, organised by War Office for Army officers and directed by War Office and Army personnel, including Ordnance survey maps of Aisne area, [1909]-1920; Tour of the battlefield of the Aisne, September 1914, Southern Command pamphlet (HMSO, London, 1930); memorandum to attendees from Maj Gen Arthur Edward McNamara, Director of Military Training, 13 Jun 1934, on points to be discussed during the tour; instructions, 1934, for exercise for tour attendees on first Battle of the Aisne, Sep 1914; Battle of the Aisne, 13th-15th September 1914: tour of the battlefield, War Office pamphlet (HMSO, London, 1935). 1 file
[ALANBROOKE: 3/17/1-2]
1935-[1936]
Papers relating to 8 Infantry Bde battlefield tour, 1935, including itinerary and list of attendees, 1935; texts [by Brooke, 1935,] on Battle of Nery and Battle of the Aisne, Western Front, Sep 1914; printed sketch maps and War Office maps of the Aisne area, [1934-1935]; letter from Col Robert Francis Brydges Naylor to Brooke, 11 Feb [1936], thanking him for loan of the above papers; photographs of Aisne and Nery battlefields, France, annotated to show towns, roads and other geographical features, [1935]. 1 file, 1 small box