King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, Black Watch 1901; South Africa 1901-1902; Indian Frontier 1908; Staff College, Camberley 1909-1910; World War I, France and Belgium 1914-1916; Military Attache with Russian Army in Caucasus 1916-1917; Brig Gen, General Staff, 20 Corps, Palestine 1918-1919; Brig Gen, General Staff, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1919-1920; Commander, 6 Infantry Bde, Aldershot 1930-1934; Commander, 2 Div, Aldershot 1935-1937; Commander, Troops in Palestine and Transjordan 1937-1938; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command 1938-1939; Commander-in-Chief, Middle East 1939-1941; Commander-in-Chief, India 1941-1943; Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific 1942; Viceroy and Governor General of India 1943-1947

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Lecture texts and notes compiled or collected by Wavell as a student at Staff College, Camberley 1909 (four files), on the Waterloo campaign, 1815, on the American Civil War, 1861-1865, and on international and military law; the papers of FM Edmund (Henry Hyman) Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, include correspondence received by Wavell when writing Allenby: a study in greatness (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1940) 1936-1939 (ref: Allenby 6); material and related papers elicited by Wavell for Allenby in Egypt: being volume 2 of Allenby, a study in greatness (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1943) 1936-1955 (ref: Allenby 6); the papers of FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, include personal and official correspondence with Wavell 1938-1952 (ref: Alanbrooke 6/D4, 14/40-41, 14/58-60); the papers of Lt Gen Thomas Jacomb Hutton include a copy of Wavell's official correspondence file 1941-1942, as Commander-in-Chief India, subsequently used for the compilation of the official history of the first Burma Campaign (ref: Hutton 3/1/1-9); the Hutton papers also include correspondence between Wavell and Hutton relating to the fall of Rangoon, Burma, Jun-Jul 1942 (ref: Hutton 3/7); the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Wavell 1926-1950 (ref: LH 1/733); the papers of Maj Gen George Mackintosh Lindsay include correspondence with Wavell 1935-1944, including comment on mechanisation, and on Wavell's visit to the USSR, Sep 1936, to observe Red Army manoeuvres (ref: LH 15/12); the papers of Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor include correspondence with Wavell 1940-1945, relating to operations in North Africa, and later accounts of those operations (ref: O'Connor 4/1-5)

Publications
OTHER_PAPERS BLACK WATCH MUSEUM, PERTH: Personal and regimental correspondence #from 1940 #to 1950, mainly relating to his service as Viceroy of India, 1943-1947 (ref: item 335) NRA17576 NRA(S) 1831); scrapbook relating to 42 Regt's athletics and social life #from 1903 #to 1906 (ref: item 397); single letter from Wavell to Col H V Holt concerning 2 Bn in India and the Indian political situation #year 1908 (ref: item 397); BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY: the papers of Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, include correspondence with Wavell #year 1946 (ref: Dep Monckton); BRITISH LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, LONDON: The papers of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, bibliographer and director of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, include correspondence with Wavell and Lady Wavell #from 1935 #to 1958 (ref: Add .MSS.52759); the papers of AF Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, include a despatch from Wavell #year 1941; BRITISH LIBRARY, ORIENTAL AND INDIA OFFICE COLLECTIONS, LONDON: Copy papers relating to his service as Viceroy and Governor General of India #from 1943 #to 1947 (ref: MSS Eur D 977); the papers of Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sind, 1941-1946 and Governor of Bihar, 1946-1947, include correspondence with Wavell #from 1943 #to 1947 (ref: MSS Eur E 372); the papers of Sir (Robert) Francis Mudie, Governor of Sind, 1946-1947, include correspondence with Wavell #from 1946 #to 1947 (ref: MSS Eur F 164); the papers of Col Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma, 1941-1946, include correspondence with Wavell #from 1943 #to 1946 (ref: MSS Eur E 215); HOOVER INSTITUTION ARCHIVES, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA, USA: The papers of Gen Joseph Warren Stilwell, US Army, include correspondence with Wavell; IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Correspondence #year 1943, relating to Wavell's poetry anthology, Other Men's Flowers (Jonathan Cape, London, 1944); the papers of H M Close include a draft of his study of Wavell and correspondence #from 1947 #to 1949; the papers of Maj Gen Guy Payan Dawnay (ref: 69/21/6) include correspondence with Wavell #from 1919 #to 1939; the papers of Lt Gen Noel Mackintosh Stuart Irwin (ref: P139) include copy correspondence #from 1942 #to 1943, between Wavell and Irwin, Commander, Arakan Campaign, Burma, 1943; general correspondence files #from 1941 #to 1949, in the papers of Lt Gen Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel (ref: P240-245) include letters from Wavell; the papers of FM Viscount Montgomery of Alamein include a copy of a confidential army report on Montgomery by Wavell, Oct #year 1938 (ref: BLM 8/9); the Montgomery papers also include personal letters from Wavell #from 1943 #to 1946 (three items, ref: BLM 1/118, 97/95, 150); JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY: The papers of FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck include correspondence with Wavell #from 1941 #to 1948; MIDDLE EAST CENTRE, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD: The papers of Gerald Delany include letters from Wavell relating to his books Allenby: A Study in Greatness (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1940) and Allenby in Egypt (G G Harrap & Co, London, 1943), also letters from Maj Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, on his father's life, and a letter to 2nd Earl Wavell #year 1953, concerning the political situation in Egypt during Wavell's period of command in World War II; the papers of Sir Kinahan Cornwallis include a letter to Wavell #year 1939, relating to the meeting between Gen Sir Edmund (Henry Hynman) Allenby and Emir Feisal (later Feisal I, King of Iraq), leader of Arab troops, in Damascus, Oct 1918;NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of Gen Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham include correspondence with Wavell #from 1940 #to 1944 (ref: 8303/104);NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH: The papers of John Dover Wilson, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, 1935-1945, include correspondence with Wavell #from 1943 #to 1950 (ref: MS 14314); SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Wavell relating to South East Asia Command #from 1943 #to 1946 (ref: MB1/C262-263); the Mountbatten papers also include personal correspondence with Wavell #from 1946 #to 1947 (ref: MB1/E186); PRIVATE POSSESSION: Papers, including diaries, speeches and correspondence, remain in the family's possession (Chris Cook, Jane Leonard, Peter Leese, The Longman guide to sources in contemporary British history: volume 2: individuals (Longman, London, 1994)

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Last updated:NAMES Maj Gen Archibald Graham Wavell (father)