King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Commissioned, 6 Inniskilling Dragoons 1882; Bechunaland expedition 1884-1885; Zululand 1888; 3 Cavalry Bde, Ireland 1898; South African War 1899-1902; Commander, 5 Royal Irish Lancers 1902-1905; Commander, 4 Cavalry Bde, Eastern Command 1905-1909; Inspector of Cavalry 1910-1914; World War I 1914-1918; Commander, 1 Cavalry Div, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1914; Commander, Army Corps and Cavalry Corps 1914-1915; Commander, 5 Corps 1915; Commander, 3 Army 1915-1917; battle of Arras 1917; Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Palestine campaign 1917-1919; battle of Gaza, Oct 1917; capture of Jerusalem, Dec 1917; battle of Megiddo, Sep 1918; capture of Damascus, Oct 1918; FM 1919; High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan 1919-1925; Capt, Deal Castle 1925-1926

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Papers (14 boxes) 1890-1936, including; letters home to his mother and wife 1890-1922 (ref: Allenby 1/1-13); including letters home to his wife from South Africa 1899-1902 (ref: Allenby 1/2/1-166); also letters home to his wife from France 1914 (ref: Allenby 1/5/1-93); letters of congratulation received by Allenby and his mother during the Palestine campaign 1917-1919 (ref: Allenby 2/1/1-76); semi official and personal correspondence 1917-1934 relating to Allenby's service in Egypt (ref: Allenby 2/5/1-22); including telegrams between Allenby and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Gen Sir William (Robert) Robertson, subsequently Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson) 1917-1918 on the progress of operations in Egypt and the strategic importance of the railway (ref: Allenby 2/5/6-7); also including a despatch from Allenby to George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 1922, giving his views on the current state of Egypt and relations with Britain (ref: Allenby 2/5/11); also including comments by Gen Sir Henry George Chauvel 1929, on the draft Australian official history of the campaigns in Egypt and Palestine (ref: Allenby 2/5//16); telegrams between Allenby and the Rt Hon Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1924-1925, relating to Allenby's resignation as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan (ref: Allenby 2/3/1-35); speeches by Allenby 1929-1930 (ref: Allenby 3/1-12); press cuttings relating to Allenby's career 1899-1936 (ref: Allenby 4/1-8); 12 photograph albums 1881-1933, principally official and personal photographs relating to Allenby's post as High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan, and including Allenby's pet stork (ref: Allenby 5/1-12); correspondence, comments and accounts received by Gen Archibald Percival Wavell [later FM, 1st Earl Wavell]1936-1939 when writing Allenby: A study in greatness (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1940) and Allenby in Egypt (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1943) (ref: Allenby 6/1-11, 7/1-3); Wavell's collected notes also include correspondence, published tributes and notes relating to Thomas Edward Lawrence and his posthumous reputation 1936-1955, inlcuding letters by Gen Sir Henry George Chauvel and Gen Sir William Bartholomew (ref: Allenby 7/4/1-10); the papers of FM Sir William (Robert) Robertson include official and personal correspondence with Allenby concerning operations in Egypt 1917-1918; the papers of Gen Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea include letters from Allenby concerning operations in Palestine 1917-1918 (ref: Shea 4/2); the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Allenby 1927-1936 (four items, ref: LH 1/11); the papers of Gen Sir Beauvoir de Lisle include an exchange of letters with Allenby, Sep 1910, on comparisons between German and British cavalry training (ref: de Lisle 4/16-17); the papers of Maj Gen George Mackintosh Lindsay include a report from Allenby, Dec 1924, as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, to Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on a mutiny of Sudanese troops in Khartoum, Nov 1924 (ref: LH 15/12) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS: letters from Gen Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate 1917-1919 (ref: Hardinge); CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD: The papers of Lt Gen Sir Herbert (Scott Gould) Miles include correspondence with Allenby 1923-1924; HOUSE OF LORDS RECORD OFFICE, LONDON: The papers of Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and Toxteth, Liverpool, Liberal politician, include letters from Allenby 1928-1937 (ref: Samuel papers); IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: six letters to George Yardley 1917-1922; also one letter to E S Jackson 1934 (ref: 75/1/1); the papers of Gen Sir Archibald (James) Murray include postwar correspondence with Allenby concerning operations in Eygpt 1916-1917 (ref: 79/48/4, B7); the papers of FM Sir Henry Maitland Wilson include correspondence 1918-1921; MIDDLE EAST CENTRE, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Photocopies of papers relating to the Middle East, including; papers relating to the Palestine campaign 1917-1918; letters to Herbert Samuel 1920-1924; correspondence and papers relating to Egypt 1920-1925; correspondence and papers relating to Wavell's biography; the papers of Sir Milne Cheetham include correspondence with Allenby, concerning Egypt 1919-1920; papers of Col C F Ryder include correspondence with Allenby concerning public security in Egypt 1922; the papers of Sir Mark Sykes include correspondence with Allenby 1930-1936; the papers of Feisal Ibn Hussein, King Feisal I of Iraq, include correspondence with Allenby; SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE, EDINBURGH: Correspondence with Philip Kerr 1917-1920 (ref: GD40)

Publications
Standing orders of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers (Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1904); World police for world peace: being the rectorial address delivered at Edinburgh University (New Commonwealth Pamphlets, series B, no 9, London, 1936); A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H H Allenby, July 1917 to October 9118, compiled from official sources (HMSO, London, 1919); William Thomas Massey, Allenby's final triumph (Constable & Co, London, 1920); Raymond Savage, Allenby of armageddon: a record of the career and campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1925); FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Allenby: a study in greatness (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1940); FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Allenby in Egypt: being volume 2 of Allenby, a study in greatness (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1943); FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Allenby, soldier and statesman (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1946), one volume edition of Allenby, a study in greatness and Allenby in Egypt; Robert Brian Gardner, Allenby (Cassell, London, 1965)

Index terms
SUBJECTS Boer War 1899-1902; strategy 1917-1918; civil-military relations 1919-1925; colonial government 1919-1925
PLACES Western Front 1914; North West Europe 1914; Middle East 1917-1925
NAMES FM Sir William (Robert) Robertson 1917; FM Sir Henry Hughes Wilson 1918; Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, High Commissioner for Palestine 1920-1924; Sir Milne Cheetham, British Embassy, Egypt 1919; FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

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