Papers of Brig Gen Philip Howell, CMG (1877-1916)

Introduction

• Biographical history
• Provenance
• Scope and content
• Arrangement
• Conditions of access and use
• Related material

Brief List

• 1 Correspondence between Horace Howell (Howell's father) and his family, 1879-1889

• 2 Official and personal correspondence of Howell, 1891-1913, including correspondence relating to Howell's employment as the Balkan correspondent of The Times and to Howell's training at Staff Colleges at Quetta, India and Camberley, Surrey

• 3 Diaries by Howell, written as Balkan correspondent of The Times, with related photograph albums, 1903-1910

• 4 Papers relating to Howell's service, 1904-1910, including training at Staff College Quetta, India

• 5 Papers relating to Howell's service, 1909-1914, including training at Staff College, Camberley, Surrey and as Major, 4 Hussars, The Curragh, Ireland

• 6 Official and personal correspondence of Howell, 1914-1916, including correspondence relating to Howell's service as Officer Commanding 4 Hussars and as Chief of Staff Salonika Army, and correspondence relating to the entry into World War One of Bulgaria

• 7 Notebooks by Howell, containing notes on Cavalry tactics, The Campaign In Thrace, by Phillip Howell, (1913, Hugh Rees Ltd), and Philip Howell. A Memoir by his wife by Rosalind Howell, (1942, George Allen & Unwin Ltd), 1910-1942

• 8 Papers relating to Howell's service on Western Front during World War One as Officer Commanding 4 Hussars, 1914-1915

• 9 Papers relating to Howell's service as Chief of Staff Salonika Army, 1915-1916

• 10 Letters by Capt (Edward) Hugh Buxton and Maj (Abbot) Redmond Buxton, mostly to Miss Violet Buxton, concerning Allied withdrawal from Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915-1916

• 11 Maps of Army Exercises and of Franco-Prussian War, 1905-1913

• 12 Papers of Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell (nee Buxton), Howell's wife, including biographical notes and correspondence concerning course of World War One, including letters from Rt Hon Noel Buxton MP, Maj (Abbot) Redmond Buxton, and Capt (Edward) Hugh Buxton, 1910-1966

• Concordance to the Howell papers

Paper s of Brig Gen Philip Howell, CMG (1877-1916)

INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Born 1877; Queen's Own Corps of Guides, 1897; Balkan correspondent for The Times, 1903; Captain, 1906; Staff-Capt, Intelligence, India, 1904–1906; passed Staff College, 1907; Brig Maj, to Imperial General Cavalry, India, 1908; General Staff Officer, Grade 3 War Office, 1909-1911; General Staff Officer, Grade 2 Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1912-1913; The Campaign In Thrace, by Philip Howell, (1913, Hugh Rees, London); Officer Commanding, 4 Hussars, The Curragh, Ireland, 1913-1914; Officer Commanding, 4 Hussars, France, 1914-1915; Brig Gen, General Staff Cavalry Corps, 1915; Brig Gen, General Staff, 10 Corps, 1915; Chief of Staff, Salonika Army, 1915-1916; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 2 Corps, France, 1916; killed in action at Authille, France, Oct 1916.

PROVENANCE

Placed in the Centre by Howell's widow, Mrs Rosalind Howell in Jun and Sep 1964, Mar 1966 and Howell's son Dr Paul P Howell in Feb 1970.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection covers the period, 1879-1916, and includes papers on Howell's service as a correspondent for The Times in the Balkans, including photographs and newspaper cuttings, 1903-1910; papers on Howell's training at Staff College, Quetta, India, and Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, including notes on Cavalry organization and tactics and on the establishment of Frontier Intelligence organization in India, 1904-1914; papers on service as Officer Commanding 4 Hussars, including Operational orders, accounts of Allied operations on Western Front, personal diaries and manuscript maps of Western Front trenches, 1914-1915; Operational orders from service as Brig Gen, General Staff Cavalry Corps, Western Front, 1915; official and semi-official correspondence from service as Chief of Staff, Salonika, including personal diaries, correspondence relating to attempts to secure Bulgarian entry in World War One on the Allied side, and correspondence relating to allegations of Howell leaking memoranda to the Suffragette newspaper Britannia, 1915-1916. The collection also includes Howell family correspondence, 1879-1889, mostly between Howell's father and grandfather, and from 1909-1916 between Howell and his wife Mrs Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell [nee Buxton]. The papers of Mrs Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell [nee Buxton], (1910-1966), include an account of Howell's life entitled, Philip Howell. A Memor By His Wife (1942, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd) and letters from Capt (Edward) Hugh Buxton and Maj (Abbot) Redmond Buxton [Rosalind 'Linnett' Howell's brothers], concerning Allied withdrawal from Anzac Cove and Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915-1916.

ARRANGEMENT

Arranged mainly chronologically in sections reflecting military service. Maps and papers of Mrs Rosalind Howell, Howell's widow, are grouped separately.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

Access

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copyright

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Language

English.

RELATED MATERIAL

Related Units of Description

The Liddell-Hart papers contain a note by Howell, General Staff, 10 Corps, on Allied defences in France, 1915, and correspondence with Mrs Rosalind Howell (Howell's widow) in 1944. The papers of FM Sir William Robert Robertson, 1 Bt, contain correspondence between Howell and Robertson concerning the British Salonika Force, Greece, 1916.

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