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ALANBROOKE: 10 Printed material and ephemera, 1935-1965

ALANBROOKE: 10/1-5 Receptions and public functions, 1940-1965

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/1-10 1940-1944

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including 7 Corps Luncheon, 7 Aug 1940; dinner party held by Rt Hon William Lyon Alexander Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, Quebec, 18 Aug 1943; funeral of AF Sir (Alfred) Dudley (Pickman Rogers) Pound, 26 Oct 1943; opening ceremony for 'Salute the Soldier' Week, London, 25 Mar 1944, and presentation to Brooke of Russian Order of Suvorov 1st Class, 11 Sep 1944. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/11-22 1944-1947

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including victory thanksgiving services, St Paul's Cathedral, 13 May and 19 Aug 1945; St Crispin's Day, Oxford University, 25 Oct 1945; Royal College of Physicians' Harveian Dinner, 18 Oct 1945; dinner at Skinners' Hall, 9 Oct 1945; Mansion House banquet, 1 Oct 1945; Navy League Trafalgar Day Luncheon, 22 Oct 1945, and Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph, 11 Nov 1945. With press cutting of photograph of Brooke and Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister, arriving in Moscow for talks with Russian High Command, Oct 1944; annual report of the Society of the Friends of St George, 1945, and related correspondence, Jan 1947. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/23-32 1946

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including dinners at Skinners' Hall, 20 Jun and 5 Dec, 1946; award to Brooke of Honorary Degree from University of Cambridge, 31 Jan 1946; Oxford and Cambridge Universities' Boat Race, 30 Mar 1946; Victory March, London, 8 Jun 1946; dinner in honour of John Gilbert Winant, US Ambassador to Britain, held by Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr 1946; New Zealand Society New Zealand Day Commemorative Dinner, 6 Feb 1946; Clare College Dinner, 31 Jan 1946; Royal Naval College Dinner, 15 Jan 1946, and ceremony of the presentation of Freedom of the City of London to Brooke, 12 Jun 1946. With diploma of Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, conferred on Brooke by Greek Government, 1946, and related correspondence. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/33-38 1947-1948

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including dinner for Brooke given by fellow students of Staff College, Camberley, 1919, London, 20 Mar 1947; School of Artillery Reunion Dinner, 26 Sep 1947; Airborne Forces Memorial Service, St Martin-in-the Fields, London, 7 Nov 1947; Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen's Annual National Remembrance Service, 16 Nov 1947; memorial service for John Gilbert Winant, St Paul's Cathedral, 19 Nov 1947, and Worshipful Company of Farriers Court Dinner, 15 Nov 1948. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/39-44 1950

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including opening of the Nurses' Memorial Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 2 Nov 1950; dedication of Glider Pilot Regt Memorial Window, Salisbury Cathedral, 9 Dec 1950, and Metropolitan Mayors' Association Metropolitan Boroughs' Jubilee Dinner, 17 Oct 1950. With letter to Brooke from London and Greater London Playing Fields Association, 4 Oct 1950; Parliament House: the chambers of the House of Commons, leaflet by Maurice Hastings (Architectural Press, London, 1950).

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/45-52 1951-1952

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including annual review of London Fire Brigade, 14 Jul 1951; dinner to meet High Commissioners for Australia and New Zealand, held by Sir Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, 1st Bt, Lord Mayor of London, Mansion House, 2 Oct 1951; conferment of Honorary Degree on Brooke by University of London, 23 Nov 1951; 67th Annual Inspection, Gordon Boys' School, Woking, 19 Jul 1952; opening of King George's Field, Stepney, 20 Oct 1952; dinner held by The Pilgrims in honour of Gen Matthew Bunker Ridgway, Supreme Commander, Allied Powers in Europe, 14 Oct 1952; presentation of colours to 10 (County of London) Bn (Territorial Army), Parachute Regt, 1952. With correspondence, 1952, relating to the National Sporting Trophies Exhibition, 1951. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/53-62 1953-1954

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including opening of Territorial Army Centre, Farnham, 7 Feb 1953; unveiling of Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead War Memorial, 23 Apr 1953; Royal Academy of Arts Annual Dinner, 30 Apr 1953; English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth Luncheon, 5 Jun 1953; British Red Cross Society County of London Branch Parade Service, 12 Jul 1953; conferment of Honorary Degree by University of Edinburgh, 4 Nov 1953; screening of Brooke's nature films by Royal Photographic Society, 1 Dec 1953; BP Guild of Old Scouts Southern Counties 'Get Together', 13 Feb 1954, and London County Council London Education Service Jubilee reception, 26 May 1954. With printed rules of The Other Club (a Parliamentary dining club), 1954. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/63-72 1955-1959

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including Aldershot Shows, 1955-1956; presentation of the Williamsburg Award to Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 7 Dec 1955; [Royal Artillery Association] Annual Dinner, 6 Oct 1956; unveiling of memorial statue to FM Rt Hon Jan Christian Smuts, Parliament Square, 7 Nov 1956; Hartley Wintney Methodist Church jubilee celebrations, 1956; memorial service for Rt Hon John Anderson, 1st Viscount Viscount Waverley of Westdean, Westminster Abbey, 30 Jan 1958, and conferment on Brooke of Honorary Degree by University of Leicester, 20 Jun 1958. With letters from Dunkirk Veterans Association, 1958-1959. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/73-81 1959-1962

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke, including British Ornithologists' Union Centenary Banquet, 23 Mar 1959; British Legion Odiham and District Branch 'conversazione', 22 Apr 1959; visit by Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, US President, to the UK, Aug-Sep 1959; Aldershot Shows, 1959; dinner at the French Embassy, 6 Apr 1960, and Brooke's visit to Jersey, Jul 1960. With Army and Navy Circular, 1959; letter to Brooke from War Office concerning naming of Alanbrooke Hall, Staff College, Camberley, 21 Sep 1960; letters from Asia Christian Colleges Association, 1959-1960; Army Benevolent Fund, 1960-1962. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/1/81-91 1960-1965

Programmes, menu cards, guest lists, invitations, correspondence and other papers relating to receptions and public functions attended by Brooke [and his wife, Benita Blanche Brooke], including Aldershot Shows, 1961; Association of 'Lancastria' Survivors Annual Parade and March, 16 Jun 1963, and funeral of Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 30 Jan 1965. With letters from London Union of Mixed Clubs and Girls' Clubs, 1961, Degenhardt and Company Limited, 1961-1963, Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel Appeal, 1960-1962, Fleet Library, 1962, Len Howard Appeal, 1961-1962, and Hampshire River Board, 1962; Army and Navy Club circulars, 1962; Royal United Service Institution annual report, 1961; printed rules of The Other Club (a Parliamentary dining club), 1962. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/2 1951, 1956, 1960-1961

Printed programmes for the ceremony of the Installation of Knights of the Order of the Bath, Westminster Abbey, London, 1951, 1956, 1960. With related cutting from The Times, 25 May 1951, and letter to Brooke from C H Colquhoun, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St James's Palace, 29 Aug 1961, confirming return of the Order of the Bath mantle and cordons borrowed by Brooke. 1 envelope

ALANBROOKE: 10/3 1945-1960

Papers relating to the House of Lords, including programmes for State opening of Parliament, 1945-1946; typescript account of the procedure for introducing a peer to the House, [1946]; correspondence concerning Brooke's leave of absence from the House, 1958-1959. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/4 1947-1962

Correspondence concerning army ceremonial dress regulations, mainly letters and memoranda to Brooke from the War Office, 1950-1962, concerning occasions when Field Marshal's Baton should be carried, and change of regulations on the wearing of frock coats, 1962. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/5 1946-1963

Papers relating to the Order of the Garter, mainly printed programmes of investiture ceremonies and installation services. With correspondence, 1953-1954, relating to Brooke's membership of the Royal Victorian Order and Order of the Bath and to window in Canterbury Cathedral commemorating Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. 1 envelope

ALANBROOKE: 10/6-10 Royal receptions and functions, 1935-1958

ALANBROOKE: 10/6/1-7 1935-1937

Papers relating to royal celebrations and functions, including City of Plymouth's official programme of festivities on occasion of King George V's Silver Jubilee, 6-12 May 1935; The form and order of the service that is to be performed and the ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth...' (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1937); programme of ceremonies and official souvenir programme for Coronation of King George VI, 12 May 1937; copy of official War Office photograph of Col Bernard Law Montgomery and King George VI, [1937]. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/7/1-6 1947-1951

Printed programmes for royal celebrations and functions, notably marriage of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Lt Philip Mountbatten (later Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), 20 Nov 1947; unveiling and dedication of World War Two panels of Royal Artillery War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London, 29 May 1949; Royal Guest Night, Royal Artillery Mess, Woolwich, 7 Dec 1950, and opening of Royal Festival Hall, 3-9 May 1951. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/8 1952-1953

Papers relating to Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation, 2 Jun 1953, including correspondence relating to Brooke's attendance, Dec 1952-Jun 1953; printed form and order of service for the Coronation ceremony, Westminster Abbey, 2 Jun 1953; The National Geographic Magazine, vol 104 no 3, Sep 1953, and Life magazine, 13 Jul 1953, including pictures of the Coronation ceremony and procession. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/9/1-10 1953-1958

Printed programmes for royal celebrations and functions, including various Coronation Year events, 1953; installation of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as Chancellor of the University of London, 24 Nov 1955; dedication of World War Two Roll of Honour, Royal Military Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, 23 Oct 1956. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/10/1-2 1943-1958

Invitations to Brooke and his wife, Benita Blanche Brooke, to royal receptions and garden parties. With some related correspondence, 1951-1955, and letters to Benita Blanche Brooke from various friends, 1953-1954, concerning possibility of presenting her at Court. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/11-12 Texts, articles and pamphlets collected by Brooke and his wife, Benita Blanche Brooke, dated 1929-1967

ALANBROOKE: 10/11/1-4 1929-1940

Texts, articles and pamphlets collected by or sent to Brooke, including Britain's call from overseas: the need and scope for British women in the Dominions and Colonies, pamphlet issued by the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, 1929; 'India', text of lecture given on BBC radio by Henry George Dalway Turnball, 1929; text of speech given by Gen B H G Pagézy, French Commander, Lille District, at the Canadian Memorial, Vimy Ridge, 11 Nov 1939; pamphlet, [1940], of reprints of articles by Maj Gen Andrew George Latta McNaughton on the employment of artillery in World War One, 1914-1918. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/11/5-10 1941-1945

Texts, articles and pamphlets collected by or sent to Brooke, including The battle of Flanders by Ian Hay (pseudonym for John Hay Beith) (HMSO, London, 1941); typescript transcript of statement made by John Jay McCloy, US Assistant Secretary of War, on good soldier's morale, 24 Feb 1943; Britain's conquest of the Mediterranean, prepared from official records and first-hand reports and with foreword by Lt Gen Sir William George Sheldon Dobbie, former Governor of Malta (Burke Publishing Company Ltd, London, 1945); They led us to victory: a collection of portraits...(Bear, Hudson Ltd, London, 1945); 'The final evacuation', typescript account by Col O A Archdale of his experiences at Dunkirk, 1940, dated [1945]. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/11/11-12 1946

Texts, articles and pamphlets collected by or sent to Brooke, including It speaks for itself: what British war leaders said about the Polish Armed Forces, 1939-1946, selections from communiqués, speeches, messages and press reports, compiled by Capt Witold Leitgeber, Public Relations Division, Polish Armed Forces (London, 1946); Supplement to the London Gazette, 22 May 1946, including copy of despatch from Brooke, Commander, 2 Corps, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France, to Secretary of State for War, 22 Jun 1940, on operations of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France, from 12 Jun 1940-19 Jun 1940. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/11/13-16 1948-[1951]

Texts, articles and pamphlets collected by or sent to Brooke including typescript textt of speech by Henry Duncan McGowan, 1st Baron McGowan, at Repton School prize-giving ceremony, 25 Jun 1948; 'British industry and the national economy', typescript text of address by McGowan to the National Union of Manufacturers (Midland Area), 1949; pamphlet containing text of addresses given at the unveiling of the memorial to FM Sir John Greer Dill, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC, 1 Nov 1950; 'The mark of greatness', text of broadcast on the British soldier, by FM Sir William Joseph Slim, cut from the Journal of the Honourable Artillery Company, [1951]. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/11/17-20 1952-1967

Texts, articles and pamphlets collected by or sent to Brooke and his wife, Benita Blanche Brooke, including The Horse and Pony, no 20, Oct 1952, with article on pig-sticking by Lt Gen Edward Felix Norton; 'Organisation for war in modern times', text of lecture by FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Royal United Service Institution, 12 Oct 1955; 'J'ai vécu la tragédie de Dunkerque avec l'Armée Anglaise: souvenirs d'un Officier de liaison', two versions of lecture by A Georges Méric, 1965-1967, with related press cuttings; correspondence between Méric and Benita Blanche Brooke, 1962-1966 (CLOSED). 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/12 1953

Humorous drawing by R S Sherriffs referring to Brooke's responsibility for organising troops to line route of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation procession, with covering letter to Brooke from Sherriffs, 10 Jun 1953, and Punch, 27 May 1953, vol 224 no 5877, including reproduction of the drawing. 1 file

ALANBROOKE: 10/13-24 Printed books collected by Brooke, 1940-1952

ALANBROOKE: 10/13 1940

Praha, book of photographs of Prague by Karel Plicka (Prague, 1940), presented to Brooke by Dr Petr Zenkl, Lord Mayor of the City of Prague, on the occasion of Brooke's visit to Prague, Feb 1946. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/14 1943

Facsimile of section on Poland from vol 1 of the 1680 edition of The English atlas by Moses Pitt (Z Tebinka, New York, 1943), [presented to Brooke by a Polish Army officer, Jan 1944]. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/15 1944

Polish Armed Forces through the ages, compiled by W Dziewanowski and A Minkiewicz, with foreword by Lt Gen M Kukiel and illustrations by K Pacewicz (Orbis Polish Travel Office, London, 1944), signed by Polish Gen K Sosnokowski and presented to Brooke by Kukiel, May 1944. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/16/1-9 1945

Bound history of Allied Force Headquarters, Aug 1942-Jul 1944, compiled by historical sections of Allied Force Headquarters and North African (later Mediterranean) Theater of Operations, United States Army. 9 vols

ALANBROOKE: 10/17 1945

'A collection of Gen (Bernard Law) Montgomery's personal messages to the Eighth Army: El Alamein - Ortona, 23 October 1942-31 December 1943', printed and bound by Printing and Stationery Services, 21 Army Group. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/18 1945

'A collection of FM (Bernard Law) Montgomery's personal messages to 21 Army Group: Normandy to the Baltic, 6 June 1944-8 May 1945', printed and bound by Printing and Stationery Services, 21 Army Group, 1945. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/19 1945

'Ten chapters' by FM Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, an account of his activities, 1942-1945, mainly facsimiles of notes by Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, from Montgomery's autograph book, printed by Printing and Stationary Services, 21 Army Group. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/20 1946

Bound copy of papers issued to Commanders by Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, in preparation for War Office Exercise EVOLUTION, Aug 1946. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/21 [1946]

'The conquest of Sicily', bound copy of despatch FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Viscount Alexander of Tunis, on Allied operations in Sicily, 10 Jul-17 Aug 1943.

ALANBROOKE: 10/22 1947

Printed report on War Office Exercise SPEARHEAD, May 1947, Staff College, Camberley, sent to Brooke by Montgomery, Sep 1947

ALANBROOKE: 10/23 1951

Cross-Channel attack by Gordon A Harrison (Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, 1951), part of Official History of United States Army in World War Two, with covering letter from Maj Gen Orlando Ward, Chief of Military History, US Department of the Army. 1 vol

ALANBROOKE: 10/24 1952

Britain's homage to 28 000 American dead (London, The Times Publishing Company, 1952), with covering letter to Brooke from John Astor, Chairman, The Times Publishing Company. 1 vol
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