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Joint Services Command and Staff College

Staff College 1919. Year’s work in 4 vols: Volume 1 (Nos 1 to 100).


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB CR/1919/1 JSCSC

Held at: Joint Services Command and Staff College

Title: Staff College 1919. Year’s work in 4 vols: Volume 1 (Nos 1 to 100).

Date(s): 1919

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume, bound, various pagination

Name of creator(s): Directing Staff, 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 Instructions regarding preparation of schemes and papers on military subjects, A & B Div. 2 Precis of lecture – administrative staff duties in a division on the march, and moves by rail and bus, B Div. 3 Precis of lecture – staff duties (1), A & B Div. 4 Outdoor exercise (1) – ‘billeting’, B Div. 5 Paper ‘A’ – military education non-regular officers, A & B Div. 6 Precis of lecture – map reading etc, A & B Div. 7 Table of suggested distribution of line transport, A Div. 8 Indoor exercise No 2 – A corps marching on on road changes direction and closes up for action, A & B Div. 9 Indoor exercise No 3 – graphics, A & B Div, Lt Col Luckock. 10 Precis of lecture – aid to civil power, B Div, Lt Col Venning. 11 Outdoor exercise No 1. Reconnaissance for the close billeting of a division, A Div, Lt Col Liddell. 12 Precis of lecture – tactical handling of machine guns, A Div. 13 Indoor exercise No 4. Drafting of minutes, memoranda etc, A & B Div. 14 Precis of lecture collection & transmission of information by cavalry, A Div. 15 Precis of lecture – strategy & military history (1), A & B Div. 16 Indoor exercise No 5, A Div. 17 Precis of lecture – staff duties (2). 18 Indoor exercise No 5, B Div. 19 Table of standard order entrainment of units in divs in GHQ reserve, A Div. 20 Precis of lecture Q (2) moves, A Div. 21 Tables of establishments of 1 corps, A & B Div. 22 –do -1st Cav Div, A & B Div. 23 Precis of lecture staff duties (3) movement, A & B Div. 24 Precis of lecture supply services, B Div. 25 Scheme for summer term (sections I, II & III), A Div. 26 Precis of lecture Artillery no 1 (Tables A, B & C), A & B Div. 27 Scheme for summer term (section IV). Strategical concentration, A Div. 28 Staff duties (4) Marches, A Div, Lt Col Luckock. 29 Precis of lecture ammunition supply from the base to the troop, A & B Div. 30 Precis of staff duties lecture No 4 marched, B Div, Lt Col Collins. 31 Paper B (report of reconstruction committee), A Div, Lt Col Liddell. 32 Paper B. Report of reconstruction committee, B Div, Lt Col Crozier. 33 Reconnaissance exercise, B Div, Lt Col Haskard. 34 Scheme for summer term (Section IV contd.) Indoor exercise No 6. strategical deployment, A Div. 35 Precis of lecture “Imperial strategy” (1), A & B Div, Br Gen Charles. 36 Indoor exercise No 6. “Marches of a division”, B Div, Lt Col Collins. 37 Precis of lecture tactics (3) (Tactical advance Cd.), A Div, Col Anley. 38 Imperial strategy Scheme 1, A & B Div, Br Gen Charles. 39 Precis of lecture staff duties (5) Orders and instructions (1), A & B Div, Lt Col Luckock. 40 Diagram of divisional supply system, A Div, Lt Col Grubb. 41 Precis of lecture administrative staff duties higher formations, B Div, Lt Col Wingfield. 42 Precis of lecture – cavalry (1) Characteristics & organization, A & B Div, Lt Col Osborne. 43 Outdoor exercise (3) reconnaissance, A Div, Lt Col Luckock. 44 Precis – lecture Q 4 supply and transport, A Div, Br Gen Anderson. 45 Synopsis of lecture on intelligence, A Div, Lt Col Piggott. 46 Indoor exercise No 7. “Ammunition supply in the attack”, B Div, Lt Col Wingfield. 47 Precis – lecture “A” staff duties & MS duties, B Div, Lt Col Venning. 48 Precis – lecture “The tactical adv guard”, B Div, Lt Col Haskard. 49 Precis of signal lectures & tables A & B, A & B Div, Lt Col C-Smith. 50 Outdoor exercise No 4. Advanced guard action, A Div, Col Anley. 51 Map “Virginia and Maryland”, A & B Div, Col Anley. 52 Maps 373 to 376 incl. (Campaign of 1849; Jena campaign; Jena campaign 1-14 Oct; Italian campaigns 1796&1849), A & B Div, Col Anley. 53 Precis of lecture 2. Strategy & military history, A & B Div, Col Anley. 54 Precis of lecture – Indian frontier warfare (II), A & B Div, Major Buckland. 55 Precis of lecture – Battle of Cambrai, A Div, Br Gen Dill. 56 Precis of lecture – Arty. No 3 “The defensive in the opening phases of a campaign”, A Div, Lt Col Broad. 57 Precis lecture – staff duties (6) Orders & instructions (2), A Div, Lt Col Luckock. 58 Adv Gd. Exercise outdoor exercise 4, B Div, Lt Col Haskard. 59 Paper “D” manpower, A Div, Lt Col Liddell. 60 Special paper examn for promotion, A Div, Br Gen Dill. 61 Artillery paper on tactical employment of section, B Div, Br Gen Kearsley. 62 Precis of lecture – Q5 supply & transport (2), A Div, Lt Col Grubb. 63 Scheme for summer term (Section V) Outdoor exercise No 3 “Action of protective cavalry”, A Div, Lt Col Osborne. 64 Outdoor exercise No 4 “Action of protective cavalry”, B Div, Lt Col Osborne. 65 Precis of lecture – artillery No 4 The effect and limitations of artillery, A Div, Lt Col Lindsell. 66 Precis of lecture – “Signal in mobile warfare”, A & B Div, Lt Col C-Smith. 67 Outdoor exercise No 5 “railheads”, B Div, Lt Col Wingfield. 68 Solution –indoor exercise No 7, B Div, Lt Col Wingfield. 69 Scheme for summer term (Sect VI). Indoor exercise No 7 “bus moves”, A Div, Lt Col Grubb. 70 Precis of lecture- “Railheads and railways generally”, B Div, Lt Col Wingfield. 71 Frontier making – summary, A Div, Lt Col Cornwall. 72 History of the Embden, A & B Div, Br Gen Charles. 73 Precis of lecture staff duties (6) Orders & Instructions (“), B Div, Lt Col Collins. 74 Precis of lecture – movements by bus, A & B Div, Lt Col Grubb. 75 Order of battle issues for instructional purposes – adding certain inf. Bns, A Div, Lt Col Liddell. 76 Precis of R.E. Lecture No 1, A & B Div, Lt Col Neame. 77 Indoor exercise No 8. Movements by bus, B Div, Lt Col Winfield. 78 Precis of lecture – supply & Transport (3), A Div, Lt Col Grubb. 79 Precis of lecture – Q.1. Q2MG staff work, A Div, Lt Col Grubb. 80 List – order of battle for instructional purposes – adding certain battalions, B Div, Br Gen Farmer. 81 Outdoor exercise No 6. Outposts, B Div, Lt Col Haskard. 82 Notes on Afghanistan & Map 229, A & B Div, Br Gen Charles. 83 Precis – Indian frontier warfare II, A & B Div, Maj Kelly. 84 Suggested maximum distribution list for a division, B Div, Lt Col Collins. 85 Paper E Artillery No 1, A Div, Lt Col Broad. 86 Exercise on proposed war establishments, B Div, Lt Col Venning. 87 Three special papers on war establishments, A Div, Lt Col Liddell. 88 Outdoor cavalry exercise 7. Tactical handling of cavalry, B Div, Lt Col Osborne. 89 Notes on preparation of defensive positions – introductions, A & B Div, Commandant. 90 Scheme for summer term Section IX: outdoor exercise No 7 “selection of a defensive positions, A Div, Lt Col Neame. 91 Precis R.E. lecture No 2 – “selection & preparation of defensive positions”, A & B Div, Lt Col Neame. 92 Notes on Naval operations in the Pacific in 1914, A & B Div, Cmdr Spencer-Cooper. 93 Precis of lecture (3) “Indian frontier warfare”, A & B Div, Maj Bond. 94 Schemes for summer term, sect VI outdoor ex No 5, A Div, Lt Col Luckock. 95 Indian frontier defence – specimen calculation, B Div, Br Gen Charles. 96 Precis lecture – “reinforcement”, B Div, Lt Col Liddell. 97 Diagrams on manpower (British & French), B Div, Lt Col Liddell. 98 Precis – 3rd lecture on strategy, A & B Div, Col Anley. 99 Indoor exercise No 9, “disposal of casualties”, B Div, Lt Col Venning. 100 Schemes for summer term. Sect VII outdoor ex no 6 “rearguard action”, A Div, Lt Col Osborne.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

100 folios arranged in a 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 at JSCSC, record 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, precis 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 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:

Camberley 'Reds' collection, 1903-1913, 1919, 1923, 1929, 1933, 1935, 1937-1945, and 1947-1997.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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


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