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Joint Services Command and Staff College

Staff College 1903, schemes, indoor and outdoor, and notes issued, not including lectures: Senior Division


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB CR/1903/2 JSCSC

Held at: Joint Services Command and Staff College

Title: Staff College 1903, schemes, indoor and outdoor, and notes issued, not including lectures: Senior Division

Date(s): 1903

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume, bound, var. pag.

Name of creator(s): Rawlinson | Sir | Henry Seymour | 1864-1925 | Colonel | Baronet, Companion of the Bath, psc | Commandant, Staff College Camberley
Haking | Richard Cecil Byrne | 1862-1945 | psc | Lieutenant Colonel | Professor of Tactics, Staff College Camberley
Johnston | James Thomason | b 1860 |Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Artillery | psc | Professor of Fortification and Artillery, Staff College Camberley
Heard | Alexander Eustace Stawell | b 1867 | Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Northumberland Fusiliers | Professor of Military Topography, Staff College Camberley
Capper | Thompson | 1863-1915 | Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, East Lancashire Rifles | Distinguished Service Order, psc | Professor of Military Administration, Staff College Camberley
May | Edward Sinclair | b 1856 | Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Artillery | Companion of Saint Michael and Saint George, psc | Professor, Staff College Camberley

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Staff College, Camberley, was inaugurated in 1862 to provide Staff training to British Army officers and remained in existence until 1997 when single-Service Staff training was ended. Staff training for the British Army is now conducted by the Joint Services Command and Staff College.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

1 List of Reconnaissances Jan to April. 2 Defence of L. of C., Lt Col Haking. 3 Enumerate Strategic Points 1870 Theatre, Lt Col May. 4 Changes in War Establishments, Lt Col Capper. 5 Reconnaisance of Area of Country, Lt Cols May and Capper. 6 Examples of Attack Orders (V Div S.A.), Lt Col Capper. 7 Appreciation on German Mobilization etc, Lt Col May. 8 Railway Exercise No 1. (3 Parties), Lt Col Capper. 9 Notes and scheme on Railways in War, Lt Col Capper. 10 Continuation of No. 2. March and Orders, Lt Col Haking. Continuation of No 2. Raid on L of C (4 parties), Lt Col Johnston. 12 Scheme - March, Bivouac and Ouutpost, Lt Col Heard. 13 Bivouacs and Outposts, Lt Cols May & Capper. 14 'Was McMahon right to fight at Woerth?', Lt Col May. 15 Operations of Cav. 1870. 2 examples, Lt Col May.

16 Map, North France and Belgium, Lt Col May.17 Defence of post, with map, Lt Col Johnston. 18 Defence of post with map, Lt Col Haking. 19 Defence of position behind Loddon R., Lt Col Johnston. 20 Views as to punishment on Active Service, Commandant. 21 Comments on Spicheren and Woerth; and Scheme, Lt Col May. 22 Sketch map of Germany, Lt Col May. 23 List of lectures by Senior Division. 24 Continuation of No 13 Camping, Lt Col Capper. 25 Preliminary Coast Reconnaissance, Lt Col Capper. 26 Reconnaissance for Attack. Orders, Lt Col May.27 Freehand drawing. Practice plate, Lt Col Heard. 28 Disembarkations, Lt Col Capper. 29 'How would you have attacked Spicheren?', Lt Col Haking. 30 On Nautical Astronomy, Lt Col Heard. 31 Write orders as Bazaine on 15 Aug 1870, Lt Col May. 32 Staff Tour. Coast Reconnaissance, Lt Col Capper. 33 Battle of Lisaine; illustrating defence, Lt Col Johnston. 34 Reconnaissance for Defence of River, Commandant. 35 Major Simpson on Disembarkation. 36 Estimate of Time for Disembarkation, Lt Col Capper. 37 Staff Ride, Lt Col Haking. 38 Staff Ride, Lt Col Johnston. 39 Staff Ride, Lt Col Capper. 40 Staff Ride, Lt Col May. 41 On Nautical Astronomy, Lt Col Heard. 42 Recon: Orders for a Cavalry Screen, Lt Col May. 43 Intelligence on Current Military Topics, Lt Col Capper. 44 List of parties for the Battlefields. 45 On German experiences at Gravelotte, Lt Col May. 46 Survey by Astronomical Observation, Lt Col Heard.

47 Flank guard to army retreating, Lt Col May. 48 Freehand sketch of enemy's position, Lt Col Heard. 49 Advanced guard-Demolition-sketch, Lt Col Johnston. 50 General plan of country and camps, Commandant and Lt Col Capper. 51 Draw sketch map of Spain and Portugal, Lt Col May. 52 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Haking. 53 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Capper. 54 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col May. 55 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Heard. 56 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Johnston. 57 Draw up scheme for a Staff Ride, Lt Col Haking. 58 Continuation of 50. March Orders and Camps, Commandant and Lt Col May. 59 Convoy, Lt Col May. 60 King's Review and arrangements, Lt Col Capper. 61 Staff Ride Mountain Warfare, Lt Col Haking. 62 Staff Ride Mountain Warfare and Arrangements, Lt Col May. 63 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Johnston. 64 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Capper. 65 Staff Ride, Opposing Forces, Lt Col Heard. 66 Notes on hill warfare, Lt Col May. 67 Set of forms for survey, Lt Col Heard. 68 Attack of a position, Lt Col Johnston. 69 Reconnaissance for attack. Continuation of 50, Commandant and Lt Col Haking.

70 Exercise in marking out a camp, Commandant and Lt Col Capper. 71 Memo on staff details of No 69, Commandant. 72 Defence of a position. Continuation of No 50, Commandant and Lt Col Haking. 73 Modifications in tactics caused by close country. 74 Form for rating watches, Lt Col Heard. 75 Rear guards, etc. Continuation of No 50, Commandant and Lt Col May. 76 Precis and maps of lectures given by S.C. Officers (bound at end of work). 77 Railaway scheme, entraining, feeding, detraining, Lt Col Capper. 78 Panorama sketch. Memory sketch, Lt Col Heard. 79 Forcing passage of a river, Commandant and Lt Col May. 80 On experiences while attached and during manoeuvres, Lt Col Johnston. 81 On ammunition and technical equipment, Lt Col May. 82 Attack of position, Lt Col May. 83 Adanced guards. 4 situations, Lt Col Haking. 84 Reconnaisance with freehand sketch, Lt Col Heard.85 Billeting scheme, Lt Col Capper. 86 Examination Staff Ride. 87 Paper on nature of ground in Staff Tour affecting 3 arms, Lt Col May. 88 Exercise in Imperial strategy. Abyssinia, Lt Col May. 89 Orders for retreat from Gravelotte, Lt Col Capper. 90 Write an account of Battle of Austerlitz. 91 Inroad of Invading Army, Depots etc, Lt Col May. 92 Investment of a fortess, Lt Col Johnston. 93 Continuation of schem 88 Imperial Strategy, Lt Col May. 94 Lecture on electricity given by Capt Seton. 95 Paper on best means of traction for Artillery, Lt Col May. 96 Contoured map of Austerlitz. Lt Col Haking. 97 Comparison of our organization with foreign organization, Lt Col Capper. 98 Write a study of Jena, Lt Col Haking. 99 Write a study of Salamanca, Lt Col Haking. 100 Continuation of Investment Schem, Lt Col Johnston. 101 Extract from Major Handley's lecture. 102 War Game, Lt Cols May & Johnston. 103 Exercise in Imperial Strategy, Lt Col May. 104 Continuation of Investment Schem, Lt Col Johnston. 105 Lectures arranged on Imperial Defence, etc. 106 Remarks on Investment Scheme, Lt Col Johnston. 107 War Game, Lt Cols Capper & Haking. 108 General plan of the boat advance. 109 Map to accompany Col Pratt's lecture.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

109 folios in single bound volume.

Conditions governing access:

The collection is open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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 Head of Library Services, Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Finding aids:

Contents listing at front of volume. OPAC available at the JSCSC. Record available on AIM25.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

A lack of any proper records makes it difficult to write any history of the Staff College, including that of its archives. Created by the Army Staff College, Camberley (1862-1997) the collection was housed in the Library at Camberley. The collection consists of schemes of work, précis lectures, reports, notes, administrative instructions and other documents relating to the course of studies offered by Camberley during the period and covers the period 1903 to 1997. The collection is not continuous, in part due to the exigencies of war (the college was closed from 1914 to 1918) and the administrative decision made in 1940 to destroy records. Since 2000 the collection has been securely housed in the JSCSC.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Created for the 1903 Junior Division course at Staff College, Camberley. Received at the JSCSC on the occasion of the closure of Staff College, Camberley in 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Camberely 'Reds' Collection

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Finding aid prepared Jan 2012


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Army | Armed forces | State security
Government archives | Archives
Military education | Higher science education
Military science | Social sciences
Army x Armed forces
Military organizations

Personal names
Capper | Thompson | 1863-1915 | Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, East Lancashire Rifles | Distinguished Service Order, psc | Professor of Military Administration, Staff College Camberley
Haking | Richard Cecil Byrne | 1862-1945 | psc | Lieutenant Colonel | Professor of Tactics, Staff College Camberley
Heard | Alexander Eustace Stawell | b 1867 | Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Northumberland Fusiliers | Professor of Military Topography, Staff College Camberley
Johnston | James Thomason | b 1860 |Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Artillery | psc | Professor of Fortification and Artillery, Staff College Camberley
May | Edward Sinclair | b 1856 | Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Artillery | Companion of Saint Michael and Saint George, psc | Professor, Staff College Camberley
Rawlinson | Sir | Henry Seymour | 1864-1925 | Colonel | Baronet, Companion of the Bath, psc | Commandant, Staff College Camberley

Corporate names
Staff College, Camberley

Places