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General Aspects
A
Accidents and Accidental Wounding
Achiet Le Petit: March 1917 Action of
Aisne, Battle of - 12/15 September 1914
Albert, Battles of - 1/13 July 1916 & 21/23 August 1918
Alien Parentage - Military Service
Americans/America Troops/United States
Amiens - Town and Battle of, 8-11 August 1918.
Antwerp Defence of, 4/10 October 1914.
Armistice - Conscientious Objectors & F.A. Unit. See also: Bainton - American Quaker, F.A.U. France; Dodd E.E.;Pollard R. - F.A.U. France; Smith H. - C.O. Wandsworth Prison; Stanton H. - C.O. Maidstone Prison; Armistice - Newspapers; British and German newspapers in Newspaper Catalogue/Card Index
Armistice - General References. See also: C.O.; Domestic Front; Peace and After in Domestic Front File; Egypt; Germany; India; Italy; Mesopotamia/Persia; Newspapers; Other Countries; Palestine; Paris Peace Conference - Miss J.Whitehead (Dorn.Front); Post Armistice Battlefield Conditions; P.O.W.; RFC/RAF; R.N. and RN/MN; Ruleben; Turkey; War Office; Western Front; Women Overseas
Armistice - Mesopotamia/Persia
Armistice - Post Armistice Battlefield Conditions
Armistice - Royal Navy. See also R.N./M.N. Armistice
Arras - City and battle of 9 April/4 May 1917
Artillery - 18 Pdr and other Guns
Artillery - Aircraft Co-operation
Artillery - Mountain Artillery
Artillery - Range Finding and Observation
Artillery - Royal Field Artillery
Artillery - Royal Garrison Artillery
Atrocities. See this catalogue under [Propaganda and Enlistment. Domestic Front and G.S. under Miscell: Churches (Dr.S.)
Attitudes/Opinions . Good letters on numerous topics e.g.in Fleming letters (GS), Shepherd/Chapman letters in Domestic Front:Munitions and Mitchison (GS).See under precise headings:- French, Americans, Germans etc.
Attitudes/Opinions - American Attitudes to British
Attitudes/Opinions - American Attitudes Towards Themselves
Attitudes/Opinions - Attitudes under Shellfire/Danger
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - RN visits to the Western Front
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and East Africa
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and Egypt/Palestine
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and Gallipoli
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and India
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and Italy
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and Macedonia
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and Mesopotamia
Attitudes/Opinions - Comparison: Western Front with Other Fronts - Western Front and Palestine
Attitudes/Opinions - Crime and Corruption
Attitudes/Opinions - of Australians towards Non-Australians
Attitudes/Opinions - To Contents of own Letters and Diaries
Attitudes/Opinions - Toward Arabs
Attitudes/Opinions - Toward High Command and Conduct of War
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Albanians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Americans
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Australians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards being Conscripted
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards being Wounded and Towards Returning to Active Service after Recovery.
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Belgians: Civilians and Soldiers
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards British Abroad
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Bulgars
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Civilians from Servicemen
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Civilians, Homes and Parents
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Conscription
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Disillusionment
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Indians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Inventors
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Irish
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Italians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Jamacians and West Indians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Japanese
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Jews
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Joining up/Patriotism
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Morbidity/Anticipation of Death
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards New Zealanders
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Nurses - Domestic Front Nurses
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Nurses - Women
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Other Units
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Pacifists/Pacifism. See also Towards Conscientious Objection
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Patriotism. See Joining Up/Patriotism
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Philosophy of Life
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Politicians. See Politics
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Portuguese
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Regiment
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Religion. See Religion
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Russians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Senior Officers and Staff
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Serbians
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Social Mix of Army Life
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Strikers
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the Army
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the French. See under French in this catalogue.
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the Germans
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the War in General
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Turks
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards War Correspondents (and those who wrote about the war)
Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Women
B
Bairnsfather. See book section; Personalities; R.F.C.Catalogue
Bantams. See book section
Barges (Hospital). See wounds
Batman/Officer's Servant. See also Officer/Men Relationships
Bayonet Training/In Action/Close Order Fighting
Beaumont-Hamel: July 1916 and 13/18 November 1916. See Somme
Belgian Coast - Projected Landing Autumn 1917
Belgian Soldiers and Civilians. See also attitudes towards
Belgium, Occupied. See Separate Catalogue: Germans in Belgium; Domestic Front: Propoganda; Propoganda: anti-German/Kaiser's Will in Domestic Front
Birdwood - Field Marshal Sir William. See Anzac section
Bombers - Infantry. See also Grenades
Bombing - Aerial and Trench Strafing by Germans
Boom Ravine - Somme, February 1917
Bourlon Wood - November 30th 1917 (German Cambrai Counter-attack)
Burial. See also graves, cemeteries
C
Cambrai - November 20th - December 7th 1917. Ab inito, Cambrai placed under TANKS. This could with care, be revised; Map catalogue
Canadians/Canada. See also under Attitudes - Towards Canadians, see Vimy; "Divisional Units" and Propaganda (British).
Cavalry. See also this catalogue under Animals and Horses and Cavalry; other Cavalry and Yeomanry Regt. men in Regimental cross ref; Egypt/Palestine Catalogue.
Cemeteries, Graves and Commemoration. See also death
Christmas Cards - British Red Cross
Christmas Cards - Italy. See Italy - Photos and Miscellaneous
Christmas Cards - Number 10 Convalescent Depot: France 1918
Christmas Cards - Personal Design
Christmas Cards - RFC/RNAS/RAF
Christmas Truce - 1914 (Non Truce)
Christmas Truce 1916 (and Christmas 1916)
Comforts. See also Domestic Front: Fundraising
Company Roll Books. See Also Officer/Men Relationships
Comradeship. See Also Officer/Men Relationships
Concert Party. See Entertainment for most concert party references
Courts Marshall. See Conscientious Objection section of the archive; see this catalogue for Executions, Field Punishment No.1 Order and Shell Shock
D
Death, Bereavement and Commemoration. For RFC/RNAS see RFC Catalogue & Reference System.
Deception, Ruses, Tricks. See also Booby Traps
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - 1914 Star, Service and Victory Medals
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - C.M.G.
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Commander of the Bath (Military Division)
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Croix de Guerre
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Decorations - Attitudes Towards. See the Soldier's War, attitudes chapter
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Distinguished Conduct Medal
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Distinguished Flying Cross
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Distinguished Service Cross
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Distinguished Service Medal. See R.N. Catalogue under decorations
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Investiture Ticket
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Italian Bronze Medal
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Medaille D'Honneur
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Mentioned in Despatches
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Meritorious Service Medal
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Military Cross
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Military Medal
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Military Medal - French
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - O.B.E.
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Order de l'Armee
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Order of Albert Medal
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Order of Kara George (Serbia)
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Order of Saint Sava (Serbia)
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Order of Saint Vladmir 4th Class (Russian)
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Unit Commendations
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Various Papers
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Victoria Cross. See other sections of the Archives or the tape-recorded card index system for information on the Victoria Cross recipients.
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Victoria Cross - Section II
Decorations - Distinguished Conduct - Victoria Cross - Section IV. See General Aspects: Jews
Demobilisation. For demobilisation difficulties see under Mutiny, this catalogue.
Discipline/Indiscipline. See also this catalogue under Courts Martial, Mutiny and Executions.
E
Employment Certificates. See under Demobilisation in this catalogue.
Enlistment/Recruitment/Training
Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Entertainment. See Concert Parties
Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Programmes. Salonika: "Entertainment" for numerous examples
Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Sport
Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Sport Programmes
Exemptions. See Conscientious Objection Archives for exemption from conscripition.
F
Festubert. See Aubers Ridge and Festubert
Field Punishment No. 1. See Conscientious Objectors; Military Law - this catalogue; Courts Martial - this catalogue.
Field Service Postcards and 'Green' Envelopes (a collection of various)
Fleas, Flies and Insects in General
Food/Food Parcels/Canteens/Army Rations/Military Cooking. In addition to these references the letters, diaries and papers of many service-men contain constant references to the quality and availability of food and rations, contents of parcels and canteen facilities.
France (Occupied) and post-war France
French. See also the French Section of the Archives as well as this catalogue under Attitudes to the French and under Propaganda.
Friendly Fire. See also Accidents, Wounds, Death, Attitudes towards other Units, Artillery.
G
Gas and use of Smoke. See also this catalogue under Instruction, Loos and 2nd Ypres, additionally the Museum Section of the Archives.
Gaza - Battles of March-November 1917
Germans/German Weapons and German POWs. See also under Domestic Front: Civilian Interment and POW in Britain; this Catalogue under Attitudes; German Section for Germans as fighting soldiers, and in certain individual folders; Maps (German); Ruhleben Section and P.O.W.; Newspapers: German
Germany - Occupation of. See in German Section: occupation of
Givinchy 1915 - 25th January and 15-16 June. See also this catalogue under Divisional Units; Aubers Ridge/Festubert.
Gouzeaucourt - 20/21 November 1917 and German counter attack. See under Bourlon Wood for German counter-attack
Grenades. See also bombers, infantry
H
Haig, Field Marshall Sir Douglas and G.H.Q.. See Photos: Personalities
Health, Fitness, Cleanliness and Disease. See also Lice and Fleas; this Catalogue under Entertainment: Sport; Salonika, for Malaria; Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, for disease material.
Heroism (not associated with Decorations)
Hindenberg Line and Battles of the 100 days - 1918 - from 8th August to 9th October
Horses and Cavalry. See separate section for Mules; Animals and Cavalry; papers in General Section of those in Cavalry or Yeomanry units; Egypt/Palestine and Salonika; card index of tape recordings; Photographs and Cards.
Hospital Ships. See RM/MN catalogue
Hospitals - War (BEF Hospitals in France mainly). See also Domestic Front and Women's Section
Humour and Pranks. See this catalogue under Art, Entertainment and Trench Magazines; Egypt/Palestine under Entertainment.
I
Indian Army. See under Mespotamia; under Tape recordings.
Infantry Training and Drill. See also this catalogue Bayonet Training; Bombers; Instruction Courses; Machine Guns; Rifle and Musketry; Tactics
Influenza. See many individual folders especially in Domestic Front.
Instruction Courses/Training. Bayonet training; Bombers; Enlistment/Training; Infantry Training and Drill; Machine Guns; Rifle and Musketry; Signalling and Communications; Tactics
Intelligence (Officer) Work and Military and Political Intelligence
Intercourse with enemy - verbal and visual. See also Live & Let Live, Fraternisation, Christmas Truce, Attitudes towards Germans, Germans including German;POWs.
J
K
King George V. See also Royalty
Kitchener Armies. See also Attitudes To Other Units; Enlistment.
L
La Brasse - Battle of October 1914
Lagnicourt - German attack on 15.4.1917. See Anzac/ Australia W/F 1917 papers.
Landrecies. See also Mons
Leave. See this Catalogue under Passes and Tickets.
Le Cateau - 26th August 1914. See also this catalogue under Mons and Retirement.
Liberation of Contrai and Renaix
Liberation of French and Belgian Towns
Liberation of Tourcoing. See under French (General Aspects)
Lice and Delousing. See under Gen.Aspects: Health, Fitness & Cleanliness, Item 13.
Listening Posts. See also Outposts
Live and Let Live/Fraternisation. See also Intercourse with the enemy (verbal and visual)
Loos - Sept.25th - Oct.8th 1915
Love Letters and Loving Family Relationships. Many examples in personal files
Lys - Battle of April 1918. See this catalogue under March 1918 Retreat.
M
March 1918 Retreat - Subsequent Months
Marching up the Line/Route Marches
Marne - Battle of, September 7th-10th 1914
Mascots. See also General Aspects: Animals.
Military Law. See also papers of Conscientious Objectors.
Mines/Booby Traps. See also Booby Traps
Mining and Messines. See Map Catalogue; Photographs.
Missing. See also Death
Mobilisation and Arrival of B.E.F. in France - August 1914. See individual folders in the GS; WF Recollections
Mons and Retirement - 1914, 23rd August - 5th September. N.B. See also Le Cateau/Cavalry/Horses; Map Catalogue; Domestic Front (Propaganda) for Angel of Mons; Landerecies
Morale. See also this catalogue under Shell Shock and Military Law.
Mouquet Farm (Somme) August 1915/1915 - September 3rd 1916
Mutiny. See also this catalogue under Military Law; see under India - for Amritsar
N
Nature. See Poppies and Agriculture
Netherlands - Wartime Conditions
Neuve Chapelle, Battle of, March 1915. See this catalogue under Orders and despatches - Special Orders of the day
Non-commissioned Officers. See this catalogue for Officers and Officer cadets
O
Officer Cadets. See Newspaper Section Catalogue for Officer Cadet Battalion Magazines; this Catalogue under Unit Magazines.
Officers: Attitude to Further Promotion
Officers: Conventions, Customs, Mess Life etc
Officers: Duties of an Officer
Officers: Officer Morale in Relation to Men
Orders and Despatches: General Routine Orders
Orders and Despatches: Miscellaneous
Orders and Despatches: Official Despatches
Orders and Despatches: Opeartion Orders and Movement Orders. See also this catalogue under Trench Raids; Operation Orders filed appropriately under battles, documented separately e.g Mining/Messines etc.
Orders and Despatches: Regimental, Divisional and Army Standing Orders
P
Padres. See Religion
Pals. Best to approach this subject through the Regimental Cross Reference to Pals Battalions and then check papers of men in those battalions because only in 1994 was "Pals" set up as a cross reference.
Parcels. See this catalogue under Food/Food Parcels
Passchendale. See this catalogue under 3rd Battle of Ypres
Patriotism. See under Attitudes
Patrols and Work in No Man's Land. See also this catalogue under Trench Raids (Nicholson)
Pay/Pay Books/Small Book/Kitchener's Message/Officer's Service Record: Miscellaneous. See also this catalogue under Demobilisation.
Pay/Pay Books/Small Book/Kitcheners Message/Officer''s Service Record: Soldier''s Pay Book. See also many Pay Books filed with individual folders.
Personalities: Government or Otherwise
Photographs. Apart from the many albums and sets of photographs in individual folders, contained in various sections of the Archives e g Maj Gen R ? Money (outstanding for the Western front 1914/15 and held in GS), photographs within this General Aspects section of the Archives are again sub-divided into subject classification. Where there are, in addition, documents for the subject e g Gas, Somme, Ypres, Health and Fitness, Tanks and where the subject is very specialised e g Flame-throwers, the photographs are placed in the folder for that class. Here under "Photographs" the sub-divisions are as follows:- For reference to official still and cine photographs see M ? Donald (GS) 11.4.17
Photographs: Battle and Trench Conditions
Photographs: Camps/Bivouacs. See also this catalogue under Billets and Camps.
Photographs: Destroyed Towns and Landscapes
Photographs: Leading Personalities
Piave, Battle of - Italy, June 1918. See Italy catalogue.
Pigeons. See signalling and communication
Pillbox. See 3rd Ypres
Ploegsteert Wood. See also Ypres
Politics. See Socialist/Pacifist documentation under the Conscientious Objection Section of the Archives.
Polygon Wood, Battle of, October 1917. See 3rd Ypres.
Poperinghe. See also Toc H.
Portuguese. See Attitudes: Towards Portuguese.
Postcards. See also Arts: pinups
Pozieres, Battle of the Somme 1916. See under Australian Section; Somme.
Prisoners of War: Arab Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War: British Prisoners of War. For British P?Ws held in Germany see P?W section of the Archives; For POWs held in Turkey see Mesopotamia section of the Archives
Prisoners of War: Bulgarian Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War: French Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War: German Prisoners of War. See Domestic Front - Internment and P.O.W.
Prisoners of War: Russian Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War: Turkish Prisoners of War
Propaganda. See the German Section; Domestic Front under Propaganda; Salonika and Bulgarian documents; Ruhleben, Miscellaneous for anti-German and perhaps anti-Semitic humour "Mice Schitt"; Dansey-Fisher album No.2 "Committee for the increase of the Population"; Postcards and Arts - Published, this catalogue.
Propaganda: French - Against German
Propoganda: Anti-Turkish (i.e. Subversion Leaflets)
Propoganda: British for Morale of own Soldiers
Propoganda: British to Encourage Russia 1917/1918.
Propoganda: British v German - Soldier and Home Front Morale
Propoganda: German - Anti-British
Propoganda: Post-War German Worker Propoganda
Propoganda: Pro-German - Directed Towards the French
Psychic Phenomena/Premonition. See also: Morbidity, Religion, Propoganda and Domestic Front a) Propaganda including Angel of Mons, Bowmen of England etc. b) Psychic Phenemena.
Public Schools. See Domestic Front: Education
R
Rations: Army. See Food
Religion: Christian Pacifism. For Quakers, "Bible Students", Adventists and Jehovah see under Conscientious Objection in this Catalogue
Religion: General References. See also under Morale
Religion: In General Correspondence
Religion: Jewish 'Padre'. This Catalogue under Jews
Religion: The Chaplain and the War
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1914
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1915
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1916
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1917
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1918
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1919
Religion: Towards Church and Attitude to War in 1920
Religion: Western Front Recollections
RFC and Infantry Co-operation. See RFC catalogue
Rifles and Musketry. See also this catalogue under:- Infantry training and Drill, Instruction courses, Tactics
Roberts, Lord. See Fund-raising (DF)
Royal Army Medical Corps. See other catalogues for RAMC men
Rumours. See also under Domestic Front.
Russians. See Intervention in Russian Catalogue.
S
Salvage, Battlefield Clearance, Burials, Economy and Waste
Sambre Oise Canal, Crossing of, November 1918
Sanitation. See also Trench Conditions; General Aspects: Latrines.
Scouts and Sniping. See under Sniping
Signalling and Communication. See also this catalogue under: Armistice (Signals); Infantry Training and Drill; Instruction Courses; Orders; Scouts and Snipers (Rev.Witty's notebook references to a "Pigeon man"); Tanks (File C)
Snipers and Sniping. See also Scouts
Somme - Artwork. See also under Artwork in this catalogue.
Somme - Battle of; July 1st - November 1916
Sound Ranging and Flash Spotting
South Africa including Boer War
St. Eloi, March 1915 (and Craters 1916)
Stragglers/Separation from Unit
Strikers. See this catalogue under Attitudes towards.
Supply. See also transport
T
Tactics. See this catalogue under Infantry training and drill, also machine guns.
Territorial Force - 1914/Post-1914
Toc H - Talbot House. See this catalogue under Entertainment
Training. See this catalogue under Instruction.
Trains - Ambulance. See Field Ambulance Unit Section (CO)
Trench Magazines: Sub Rosa - West Lancashire Division
Trench Magazines: The Banker's Draft - 26th Royal Fusiliers Bankers Bn
Trench Magazines: The Battalion Magazine of the 15th Battalion Tanks Corps
Trench Magazines: The Dud - 14th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Trench Magazines: The Dump - Twenty-third Division
Trench Magazines: The Garrison Goat of the 2/2 London Regt.
Trench Magazines: The Listening Post - Canadian Units
Trench Magazines: The Northern Mudguard - 2/1st Northern Cyclist Bn.
Trench Magazines: The Pelican Pie of the 62nd West Riding Division
Trench Magazines:The Pull-Thro of the 16th Bn. Manchester Regt
Trench Magazines: The R.A.M.C. Depot Magazine
Trench Magazines: The Royal Sussex Herald
Trench Magazines: The Vancouver Battalion (29th Canadian Task Force)
Trench Magazines: The Wiggle Waggle of the 112 Field Coy. R.E.
Trench Magazines: Ye Old and Bolde Gazette
Trivial Statistics: Father and Sons Serving Together
Trivial Statistics: Oldest Man at Enlistment
Trivial Statistics: Oldest Man on Active Service
Trivial Statistics: Oldest Woman in 1914
U
V
Verey Lights. See also Rockets.
Versailles - Treaty of (Paris Peace Conference)
Veterens' Re-Unions/Old Comrades Associations. See Gallipoli (Veterans); many individual folders
Vice and VD and Brothels. See also this catalogue under Health
Vimy/Arras 9th-14th April 1917. See this catalogue under Canadians for Vimy.
W
War Office Intelligence: German Publications and Documents etc.. See this catalogue under Armistice.
War Office Intelligence: German Spying and Counter Espionage
War Office Intelligence: War Office, MI6
Weather - Extremes. See Trench conditions references
Wireless. See this catalogue under Signalling and Communication.
Woolwich R.M.A.. See all artillerists.
Wounds/Wounded: Provision for. See also this catalogue under Death.
Y
Y.M.C.A.. See under Domestic Front - Y.M.C.A.
Ypres: General. See Map Catalogue
Ypres: The First Battle of Ypres - 19th October to 22nd November 1914
Ypres: The Second Battle of Ypres - 22nd April to 25th May 1915
Ypres: The Third Battle of Ypres - 31st July to 10th November 1917
Ypres: The Ypres League and the Ypres Times
Ypres: Ypres Salient 1917 before 3rd Ypres
Yser Canal. See under March Offensive 1918, i.e. later months; Battle of the Lys.
Z
Zionist Mule Corps. See also Mules; General Aspects: Jews
Domestic Front
A
Anti-German Sentiment and Action
Armistice. See also Peace
Attitudes - Pro-German Feeling/Sympathy
Attitudes - Towards the Army/Soldiers
Attitudes - Towards the French
Attitudes - Towards the United States
B
Belgian Refugees. See also under Fund Raising
Billeting of Soldiers. See also General, Womens and Domestic Front sections
Boy Scouts. See Recollections: Domestic Front
C
Clerical Work. See Censorship
Conscientious Objection. See also CO section
D
Defence. See also newspaper section
Defence: Heavier than Air Bombers
Defence: Miscellaneous and General
Defence: Sea Bombardment of the East Coast of Britain - Great Yarmouth
Defence: Sea Bombardment of the East Coast of Britain - Hartlepool
Defence: Sea Bombardment of the East Coast of Britain - Manston
Defence: Sea Bombardment of the East Coast of Britain - Scarborough
Defence: Threat of Invasion - Civilian Instruction in case of Invasion
Defence: Threat of Invasion - Local Defence Volunteers
E
Education and Children. See in recollections of many men and women documented in the Archives on their war service and also in the DF Recollections Section
F
Food. See Rationing
G
H
Hospitals, British Military. See also: "Gen. Aspects: Wounds", "Nursing", "WO e.g Milburn"
Household Economy. See also Rationing
I
J
L
M
N
Nursing. See under Hospitals
P
Pacifism. See under CO/FAU Section
Patriotism / Propaganda / Morale Boosting. See also in General Aspects under Enlistment and under Propaganda
Peace & After - Peace Celebrations
Politics. See General Aspects: Politics/Attitudes to
R
S
T
Towns, Cities and Regions: Aldershot
Towns, Cities and Regions: Bedford
Towns, Cities and Regions: Birmingham
Towns, Cities and Regions: Bradford
Towns, Cities and Regions: Brighton
Towns, Cities and Regions: Bristol
Towns, Cities and Regions: Burnley
Towns, Cities and Regions: Cambridge
Towns, Cities and Regions: Catterick
Towns, Cities and Regions: Catterick Camp
Towns, Cities and Regions: Channel Islands
Towns, Cities and Regions: Chatham
Towns, Cities and Regions: Chipping Norton
Towns, Cities and Regions: Cleadon, Sunderland
Towns, Cities and Regions:Darlington
Towns, Cities and Regions: Darwen, Lancashire
Towns, Cities and Regions:Dewsbury
Towns, Cities and Regions: Dewsbury
Towns, Cities and Regions: Dover
Towns, Cities and Regions: Durham
Towns, Cities and Regions: Egremont
Towns, Cities and Regions: Exeter
Towns, Cities and Regions: Gateshead
Towns, Cities and Regions: Halifax
Towns, Cities and Regions: Harrogate
Towns, Cities and Regions: Hartlepool
Towns, Cities and Regions: Hove/Shoreham
Towns, Cities and Regions: Huddersfield
Towns, Cities and Regions: Hull
Towns, Cities and Regions: Kirkby Stephen
Towns, Cities and Regions: Leeds
Towns, Cities and Regions: Leicester
Towns, Cities and Regions: London
Towns, Cities and Regions: Loughborough
Towns, Cities and Regions: Lowestoft
Towns, Cities and Regions: Manchester
Towns, Cities and Regions: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Towns, Cities and Regions: Nottingham
Towns, Cities and Regions: Oxford
Towns, Cities and Regions: Reading
Towns, Cities and Regions: Ripon Camp
Towns, Cities and Regions: Rotherham
Towns, Cities and Regions: Salford
Towns, Cities and Regions: Salisbury
Towns, Cities and Regions: Sheerness
Towns, Cities and Regions: Silver Town (Explosion)
Towns, Cities and Regions: Slough
Towns, Cities and Regions: Southend
Towns, Cities and Regions: South Shields
Towns, Cities and Regions: Stamford
Towns, Cities and Regions: Sunderland
Towns, Cities and Regions: Upper Slaughter
Towns, Cities and Regions: Whitby
Towns, Cities and Regions: Whitley Bay
U
W
Y
Royal Navy, Merchant Navy
P
A
Aeroplanes - Aerial Spotting for Gunnery
Aeroplanes - Anti-aircraft Gunnery
Aeroplanes - Turret Aeroplanes
Attitudes - Towards Cadets at the School of Military Aeronautics, Oxford
Attitudes - Towards Decorations and Medals
Attitudes - Towards Superior Officers and Commanders
Attitudes - Towards the American Sailors
Attitudes - Towards the French - Military and Civilians
Attitudes - Towards the Germans
Attitudes - Towards the Greeks
Attitudes - Towards the Italians
Attitudes - Towards the Royal Navy from Civilians
Attitudes - Towards the Royal Navy Volunteer and other Reserves
B
C
D
Decorations - Legion d'Honneur
Decorations - Mentions in Despatches
Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships
Discipline - Breaches of. The administration of general discipline in daily routine and in training establishments is covered in depth in other sections of this catalogue. Numerous Midshipmen's Journals contain this detail, similarly the section on Training provides such references.
Dogger Bank (Battle of, January 1915)
Dummy Ships. See Gallipoli Photographs and Gallipoli RN
E
F
G
German - Koenigsberg and East Africa. See East Africa (AFE) Section for photocopied reconnaisance reports and reports of the final and decisive attack on the Koenigsberg.
German Fleet Scuttling - Scapa Flow
German Fleet Surrender - Internment: Firth of Forth / Internment: Scapa Flow
Germany - Naval and Shipping. See also: Africa Section for destruction of Koenigsberg; and Scapa Flow
H
Hartlepool / Whitby / Scarborough Raid (16.12.14). See: Domestic Front: Defence; German Fleet Surrender: Submarines
I
Indian Ocean. See under Germany in RNMN General Aspects for Royal Navy operations in this area
J
K
M
Mediterranean. See Gallipoli Section
Merchant Marine: Officers and Ratings. See MN Miscellaneous
Mines: Minefields, Minelaying, Minesweeping. See Gallipoli Section: Photographs
N
O
P
Q
R
Ratings - Life of / Service of
Royal Marines: Papers and Documents. RNMN Recollections and GALL Recollections folders may contain relevant information, the same applies to RNMN and GALL Tape Recordings
Royal Naval Division. See Wettern, Davies and many more in GS (Regimental Cross Reference)
S
Sailing Ships/Sails. See several taperecordings
Ships
Ship: Britannia (as a Training Establishment)
Ship: Champion (Destroyer Leader 13th Flotilla)
Ship: Formidable. See Memoirs of Men in ships of same squadron e.g E. L. Berthon
Ship: Fortune (Destroyer 12th Flotilla)
Ship: Furious (Aircraft Carrier)
Ship: Monitor - M24, M31. See "Monitors" in General Aspects, eg Londen-Griffiths, Dickens etc
Ship: Monitor - M33. See "Monitors" in General Aspects, eg Londen-Griffiths, Dickens etc
Ship: Motor Launches 229, 260, 383, 473
Ship: Orama (Auxilliary Cruiser)
Ship: Strathallan (Minesweeper)
Ships sunk
A reprint of the original official publications - Navy Losses and Merchant Shipping (Losses) which was first published in August 1919 by HMSO London. For further references see sources and index in P. H. Liddles "The Sailors War" (Blandford, 1985)
Ships Sunk: HM Armed Yacht Sanda
Ships Sunk: HMS Cape of Good Hope
Ships Sunk: Hogue / Aboukir / Cressy
Submarines: Anti. Various papers from PRO and IWM relating to convoys, shipping losses, defence etc and research papers (RUSI Journal). Papers from Cabinet and Admiralty sources.
Suez Canal. See also: Mediterannean and Dardanelles; For a list of drifters sunk on Dover Patrol, see Dover Patrol
T
Torpedo/Torpedoes. See all submarine references, and "Ships Sunk" reference
Training: HMS Worcester (Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College)
Training: Royal Naval Barracks Chatham
Training: Royal Naval College Greenwich
Training: Royal Naval College Keyham
U
Z
World War 2
A
B
British Expeditionary Force 1940
British Expeditionary Force 1941
British Expeditionary Force 1942
British Expeditionary Force 1943
British Expeditionary Force 1944
British Expeditionary Force 1945
British Expeditionary Force 1946
British Expeditionary Force 1947
British Expeditionary Force 1948
British Expeditionary Force 1949
British Expeditionary Force 1950
British Expeditionary Force 1951
British Expeditionary Force 1952
British Expeditionary Force 1953
British Expeditionary Force 1954
British Expeditionary Force 1955
British Expeditionary Force 1956
British Expeditionary Force 1957
British Expeditionary Force 1958
British Expeditionary Force 1959
British Expeditionary Force 1960
British Expeditionary Force 1961
British Expeditionary Force 1962
British Expeditionary Force 1963
C
D
Decorations: Distinguished Service Order
Dieppe / Dieppe Raid: August 1942
Dieppe / Dieppe Raid: August 1943
Dieppe / Dieppe Raid: August 1944