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CABINET PAPERS
Complete classes from the CAB and PREM series in the Public Record Office, London
Series One: PREM 3: Papers concerning Defence and Operational Subjects, 1940-1945, Winston Churchill, Minister of Defence, Secretariat Papers.
Part 2: PREM 3/52-111 (Subject files covering Army, Artillery, Atlantic - Battle of, Australasian Forces, Balkans, Blockade, Bombs, Bombsight, Bracelet, Bulgaria, Camouflage, Canadian Forces, Catapult Ships, Chemical Warfare, China, Civil Defence, Coastal Command, Commandos, Convoys, Crete and Crossbow)
CONTENTS OF REELS
Introduction:
In Part 2 we continue with the alphabetically arranged subject files (A-C).
The material under the heading Army includes much detail on the fighting in Burma and in the Far East with contibutions from Mountbatten, MacArthur, Auchinleck in India and also, later in the war, by the Air Commander in Chief - South East Asia - Leigh-Mallory. There is significant source material for the study of all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic, including the introduction of the convoy system, the threat from German U-boats, anti-submarine countermeasures and reports from relevant departments, from March 1941 through to May 1942.
There are a good number of files on the contribution made throughout the war by Australian and New Zealand Forces in all theatres of operation. Highlights include documents on Australian troops and the relief of Tobruk in July-November 1941, Australian forces in Burma (from February 1942 onwards), the role of Australian and New Zealand units in the Mediterranean, including the campaigns in North Africa and Greece, as well as in the Middle East and throughout the Far East.
There are also interesting files on Bacteriological and Chemical Warfare; the Balkans (including PREM 3/66/9 which covers the Yalta declaration on ‘Liberated Europe’, July 1945); Operation Biting (the famous Bruneval raid), February-March 1942; Bracelet (especially PREM 3/76 including Telegrams to the War Cabinet and to President Roosevelt as well as records of the Cairo and Moscow conferences, August-December 1942) and also much material on the Blockade, for instance, concerning Food for Occupied Countries, particularly Belgium, France and Norway.
The material on Camouflage includes a 57 page report by the Committee of Inquiry into Supplies of Steel Wool for Camouflage (steel wool attached to wire netting).
All these subjects files reveal Churchill’s astonishing output in terms of the thousands and thousands of telegrams and personal minutes emanating from Britain’s wartime leader.
There are important files on the role of Canadian Forces, on Catapult Ships, on China with regard to supply routes and Lend Lease, on all aspects of Civil Defence, the significance of Coastal Command, on the Colonies - for instance: African defence and the role of the West Indian Brigade, on Operation Colossus in Italy, on the special units such as the Commandos, on the use of Convoys, on Operation Crossbow (concerning the campaign to eliminate German Rocket sites and pilotless aircraft) and also on operations concerning Crete.
REEL 16
PREM 3/52/1 - ARMY: Commands: Middle East and India, April 1941-November 1943
PREM 3/52/2 - ARMY: Commands: London District, Home Forces, East and West Africa, February 1943-January 1944
PREM 3/52/3 - ARMY: Commands: Iraq-Persia, May 1941-January 1945
PREM 3/52/4 - ARMY: Commands: Far East, August 1941-February 1942
PREM 3/52/5 - ARMY: Commands: Burma, November 1941-March 1942
REEL 17
PREM 3/53/1 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Air organisation for operations against Japan, May 1943
PREM 3/53/2 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Commander in Chief India - General Auchinleck, June-July 1943
PREM 3/53/3 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Supreme Commander South East Asia - possible appointments June-August 1943
PREM 3/53/4 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Supreme Commander South East Asia - Admiral Mountbatten, August-September 1943
PREM 3/53/5 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Organisation of South East Asia Command, April-September 1943
PREM 3/53/6 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Directive to Viceroy in relation to South East Asia Command, October 1943
PREM 3/53/7 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: South East Asia Naval Command, November 1943
PREM 3/53/8 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Directive to Commander in Chief India in relation to South East Asia Command, October 1943
PREM 3/53/9 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Directive to Supreme Commander South East Asia, August-November 1943
PREM 3/53/10 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Air Commander in Chief South East Asia - A C M Leigh-Mallory, August-October 1944
PREM 3/53/11 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Land Forces Commander in Chief South East Asia - General Leese, May-November 1944
PREM 3/53/12 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Generals Stilwell, Wedemeyer, etc, September 1943-July 1945
PREM 3/53/13 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Principal Administrative Officer South East Asia Command - General Wheeler, August-October 1943
PREM 3/53/14 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Visit of Admiral Mountbatten to General MacArthur, February-June 1945
PREM 3/53/15 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Medical organisation in South East Asia Command, September 1943-May 1944
PREM 3/53/16 - ARMY: South East Asia Command: Various, June 1943-July 1945
REEL 18
PREM 3/54/1 - ARMY: General: Formation and organisation of armoured divisions, August-September 1940
PREM 3/54/2 - ARMY: General: Educational and recreational facilities for troops, August-September 1940
PREM 3/54/3 - ARMY: General: ‘Winter work’ proposal, September-October 1941
PREM 3/54/4 - ARMY: General: R A S C Depot at Slough, August 1940-August 1941
PREM 3/54/5 - ARMY: General: Organisation of armoured divisions, April 1941-August 1942
PREM 3/54/6 - ARMY: General: British Troops at Home, December 1942-February 1943
PREM 3/54/7 - ARMY: General: Regimental designations, November 1942-March 1943
PREM 3/54/8 - ARMY: General: Strength return of Home Forces and Middle East [missing from the original], November 1942-March 1943
PREM 3/54/9 - ARMY: General: Tables of divisions in East and West, October 1943-July 1945
PREM 3/54/10 - ARMY: General: Surrenders to enemy, July 1942-January 1943
PREM 3/54/11 - ARMY: General: Various, May 1940-December 1942
PREM 3/54/12 - ARMY: General: Various, January 1943-July 1945
REEL 19
PREM 3/55/1 - ARMY: Manpower: Army Scales directive, January-March 1941
PREM 3/55/2 - ARMY: Manpower: Manpower Requirements and Organisation of the Army, February 1941
PREM 3/55/3 - ARMY: Manpower: Reorganisation of Army, July-November 1942
PREM 3/55/4 - ARMY: Manpower: Mechanical transport scales, March-October 1942
PREM 3/55/5 - ARMY: Manpower: Service Establishments, October 1942
PREM 3/55/6 - ARMY: Manpower: Army manpower requirements particularly for Guards formations and from R A F Regiment, April 1943-August 1944
PREM 3/55/7 - ARMY: Manpower: Ratio of forward and rearward troops in divisions, December 1940-February 1941
PREM 3/55/8 - ARMY: Manpower: Increases in Army, July-September 1941
PREM 3/55/9 - ARMY: Manpower: Army strengths, September 1941-August 1942
PREM 3/55/10 - ARMY: Manpower: Army manpower requirements and distribution, August 1944-May 1945
PREM 3/55/11 - ARMY: Manpower: Various, June 1940-November 1941 and February 1944-June 1945
REEL 20
PREM 3/56 - ARROW FLOWER BED, June 1940
PREM 3/57/1 - ARTILLERY: Anti-aircraft guns, July 1940-November 1944
PREM 3/57/2 - ARTILLERY: Field guns, May 1940-March 1941
PREM 3/57/3 - ARTILLERY: Various, February 1942 and August-November 1944
PREM 3/58 - ARMY: Operation ASCOT in Norway, November 1941
PREM 3/59 - ATLANTIC: Post-war bases, October 1942
PREM 3/60/1 - BATTLE OF ATLANTIC: Reports from departments, March-April 1941
PREM 3/60/2 - BATTLE OF ATLANTIC: Directives, March 1941
PREM 3/60/3 - BATTLE OF ATLANTIC: Various, March 1941-May 1942
PREM 3/61 - ARMY: General Auchinleck, February 1943-March 1943
PREM 3/62/1 - ARMY: General Godwin-Austin proposed inquiry into Somaliland campaign, August-September 1940
PREM 3/62/2 - ARMY: General Godwin-Austin proposed inquiry into Somaliland campaign - Re-employment and case of General Cunningham, February-October 1942
PREM 3/63/1 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Maximum strength of Australian forces, October 1941
PREM 3/63/2 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Aggregation of Australian troops and relief of Tobruk, July-November 1941
PREM 3/63/3 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: General Blamey, October 1941-March 1942
PREM 3/63/4 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian division to reinforce Burma, February 1942
PREM 3/63/5 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Retention of New Zealand division in Mediterranean, March-June 1943
PREM 3/63/6 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: New Zealand manpower, September 1943-September 1944
PREM 3/63/7 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Employment of New Zealand land forces against Japan, August 1944-January 1945
PREM 3/63/8 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian manpower and war effort, October 1943-April 1945
PREM 3/63/9 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian war effort, January-June 1945
PREM 3/63/10 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Return of Australian and New Zealand divisions from Middle East, February-December 1942
REEL 21
PREM 3/63/11 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Australian and New Zealand divisions for Greece, February-March 1941
PREM 3/63/12 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Reinforcement of New Zealand division, July-August 1942
PREM 3/63/13 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FORCES: Various, August 1940-October 1944
PREM 3/64 - AUTOMATIC GUNS, May 1941-March 1942
PREM 3/65 - BACTERIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE, December 1941-July 1942 and February-June 1944
PREM 3/66/1 - BALKANS: Gemany and Balkans, August 1943
PREM 3/66/2 - BALKANS: Policy in Greece and Yugoslavia, October 1943
PREM 3/66/3 - BALKANS: EAM, ELAS, etc, October 1943
PREM 3/66/4 - BALKANS: Operations in Greece and Yugoslavia, July-October 1943
PREM 3/66/5 - BALKANS: Handling of Balkan affairs, [missing from the original] April-June 1944
PREM 3/66/6 - BALKANS: Control of operations and relief in Balkans, February-August 1944
PREM 3/66/7 - BALKANS: Spheres of influence in Balkans, May-October 1944
PREM 3/66/8 - BALKANS: Yugoslav-Bulgarian pact and Macedonian question, April 1944-February 1945
PREM 3/66/9 - BALKANS: Yalta declaration on ‘Liberated Europe’, July 1945
PREM 3/66/10 - BALKANS: Balkans bombing targets and bombing control, January-July 1944
PREM 3/66/11 - BALKANS: Various, April-October 1944
REEL 22
PREM 3/67 - BALLOONS, May 1940-December 1942
PREM 3/68 - BEACH DEFENCES: neutralization by bombing, April-September 1943
PREM 3/69A - BELGIUM, May 1940-January 1945
PREM 3/69B - BELGIUM: position of King Leopold, 1945
PREM 3/70 - Operation BELLOWS, August 1942
PREM 3/71 - BEVAN: Neglect of duty by Captain Bevan RN, October 1940
PREM 3/72 - BAY OF BISCAY, bombing of ports and anti-submarine patrols, November 1942-November 1943
REEL 23
PREM 3/73 - Operation BITING: (Bruneval raid), February-March 1942
PREM 3/74/1 - BLOCKADE: Food for Yugoslavia, June-July 1942
PREM 3/74/2 - BLOCKADE: Food for Belgium, April-September 1942
PREM 3/74/3 - BLOCKADE: Blockade runners between Europe and Far East, May 1942-March 1943
PREM 3/74/4 - BLOCKADE: Food for Norway, December 1942-February 1943
PREM 3/74/5 - BLOCKADE: Food for Greece, November 1941-October 1942 and January-March 1944
PREM 3/74/6 - BLOCKADE: Food for unoccupied France, November 1940-April 1941
PREM 3/74/7 - BLOCKADE: Interception of French shipping, March-May 1941
PREM 3/74/8 - BLOCKADE: Food for occupied countries, particularly Belgium, October 1942-January 1943
PREM 3/74/9 - BLOCKADE: Food for occupied countries, March-October 1944
PREM 3/74/10 - BLOCKADE: Various, July 1940-January 1942 and July 1944-March 1945
REEL 24
PREM 3/75/1 - BOMBS: Bomb disposal, August 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/75/2 - BOMBS: Air Ministry bomb requirements, September 1941
PREM 3/75/3 - BOMBS: Delay action fuses, August 1940-November 1941
PREM 3/75/4 - BOMBS: Incendiary bombs, May 1942-June 1943
PREM 3/75/5 - BOMBS: Rocket-assisted concrete-piercing bombs, November 1943-July 1944
PREM 3/75/6 - BOMBS: Requirements, production and design of bombs, May 1941-July 1942
PREM 3/75/7 - BOMBS: French-designed radio-controlled bombs, November 1943-February 1944
PREM 3/75/8 - BOMBS: Various, September 1940-September 1941, May-September 1943 and March 1945
PREM 3/76/1 - BOMBSIGHT: Mr Justice Singleton’s enquiry, December 1939-December 1940
PREM 3/76/2 - BOMBSIGHT: Reports, June 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/76A/1 - BRACELET conferences (Cairo and Moscow): Proposal of meeting, June-July 1942
PREM 3/76A/2 - BRACELET: Arrangements for Cairo, July 1942
PREM 3/76A/3 - BRACELET: Addition of Mr Harriman, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/4 - BRACELET: Travel arrangements for Russians, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/5 - BRACELET: Gibraltar visit, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/6 - BRACELET: Gibraltar visit, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/7 - BRACELET: Telegrams to Dominions, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/8 - BRACELET: Message from H M the King, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/9 - BRACELET: Telegram exchanged with General Smuts, July-August 1942
PREM 3/76A/10 - BRACELET: Communiqu and post-conference telegrams, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/11 - BRACELET: Telegrams to War Cabinet and President Roosevelt, August 1942
PREM 3/76A/12 - BRACELET: Records of Cairo and Moscow conferences, August-December 1942
PREM 3/77 - BRAZIL, September 1942-August 1944
PREM 3/78 - BRITISH HONDURAS, April-May 1945
PREM 3/79/1 - BULGARIA: Bombing of and negotiations with Bulgaria, October 1943-March 1944
PREM 3/79/2 - BULGARIA: Bulgarian armistice, particularly in relation to Russia, August-October 1944
REEL 25
PREM 3/79/3 - BULGARIA: Bulgarian armistice, September-November 1944
PREM 3/79/4 - BULGARIA: Soviet-Bulgarian relations, April-July 1945
PREM 3/79/5 - BULGARIA: Various, August 1944-July 1945
PREM 3/80 - BUMPER: air-army co-operation exercise, October-November 1941
PREM 3/81/1 - CAMOUFLAGE: Steel wool, June-August 1940
PREM 3/81/2 - CAMOUFLAGE: Steel wool enquiry, September-October 1940
PREM 3/81/3 - CAMOUFLAGE: Report of Committee on Concealment and Deception, August 1941
PREM 3/81/4 - CAMOUFLAGE: Various (including photographs), July-November 1941
PREM 3/82 - Sir Gerald CAMPBELL and Lord Beaverbrook, August-November 1940
PREM 3/83/1 - CANADIAN FORCES: Employment of Canadian division in Sicily, February-August 1943
PREM 3/83/2 - CANADIAN FORCES: Announcement of employment of Canadian division in Sicily, July-August 1943
PREM 3/83/3 - CANADIAN FORCES: Movement of Canadian Armoured Division to Mediterranean, September-October 1943
PREM 3/83/4 - CANADIAN FORCES: Canadian Joint Staff Mission and command of Canadian forces, March-June 1944
PREM 3/83/5 - CANADIAN FORCES: Canadian conscription, October-December 1944
PREM 3/83/6 - CANADIAN FORCES: Various, October 1943-July 1945
PREM 3/84 - CATAPULT SHIPS, December 1940-May 1942
PREM 3/85A - General CATROUX, September 1940-May 1941
PREM 3/85B - Closed for 75 years
REEL 26
PREM 3/86 - CEMENT, August-November 1940
PREM 3/87 - CHANNEL ISLANDS, June 1940-June 1945
PREM 3/88/1 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (I): Memorandum on Chemical Warfare, September 1941
PREM 3/88/2 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (I): Defensive, November 1940-March 1944
PREM 3/88/3 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (I): Offensive, June 1940-May 1944
PREM 3/89 - CHEMICAL WARFARE (II), February 1944-June 1945
REEL 27
PREM 3/90/1 - CHINA: International air force and other assistance to China, August 1941-January 1942
PREM 3/90/2 - CHINA: Lease-lend supplies, December 1941-January 1942
PREM 3/90/3 - CHINA: Supply routes, October 1940 and February 1942-March 1944
PREM 3/90/4 - CHINA: Progress report on operations in China, April 1944-June 1945, 1945
PREM 3/90/5A - CHINA: Various, April 1941-May 1945
PREM 3/90/5B - CHINA: Chinese insistence on treating Tibet as a vassal state: UK and US policy, 1944
PREM 3/91 - CIVIL AFFAIRS IN EUROPE: UK-US organisation, November 1943-May 1944
PREM 3/92 - CIVIL AFFAIRS IN EUROPE: appointment of local civilians as military officers, September 1943-February 1944
REEL 28
PREM 3/93/1 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Protection of factories, May-August 1940
PREM 3/93/2 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Sir Auckland Geddes and Home defence organisation, July-November 1940
PREM 3/93/3 - CIVIL DEFENCE: London region organisation, Undated
PREM 3/93/4 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Fire Prevention Executive, December 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/93/5 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Blackout restrictions, August 1940-February 1943
PREM 3/93/6 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Blackout in factories, July 1943
PREM 3/93/7 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Sir Hugh Elles, chief of civil defence operational staff, June 1940
PREM 3/93/8 - CIVIL DEFENCE: Various, June 1940-May 1941
PREM 3/94 - CIVIL LABOUR for defence work, June-August 1940
PREM 3/95 - CLIPPERTON ISLAND survey, November 1944-January 1945
PREM 3/96/1 - CLOTHING: Rationing, May 1941
PREM 3/96/2 - CLOTHING: Service requirements, February 1941-April 1945
PREM 3/97/1 - COASTAL COMMAND: Transfers from Bomber Command, February-September 1942
PREM 3/97/2 - COASTAL COMMAND: Various, October 1940-June 1945
PREM 3/98A - CODE NAMES, January 1941-July 1945
PREM 3/98B - CODE NAMES, 1941
PREM 3/99/1 - COLONIES: African defence, September-October 1940
PREM 3/99/2 - COLONIES: West Indian Brigade, January 1940-November 1941
REEL 29
PREM 3/100 - Operation COLOSSUS in Italy, January-February 1941
PREM 3/101 - COMMAND: Supreme commander of operations against Germany, November-December 1943
PREM 3/102 - COMMAND: Meetings of commanders-in-chief, October 1940-January 1941
PREM 3/103/1 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Organisation and equipment, August-September 1940
PREM 3/103/2 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Use of Benzedrine, March 1941
PREM 3/103/3 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Lovat Scouts, October 1942-June 1943
PREM 3/103/4 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: In Mediterranean, December 1943-February 1944
PREM 3/103/5 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: In Far East, May-July 1945
PREM 3/103/6 - COMMANDOS AND SPECIAL COMPANIES: Various, November 1941-March 1945
PREM 3/104/1 - CONVOYS: Report of Mr Justice Oliver on security, February 1941
PREM 3/104/2 - CONVOYS: Correspondence and Papers arising from above Report, February 1941-October 1942
PREM 3/104/3 - CONVOYS: Report of Mr Justice Tucker on marking of goods for shipment, October-November 1942
PREM 3/104/4 - CONVOYS: Various, December 1942-September 1943
PREM 3/105 - COPPER SUPPLIES to Germany, January-February 1941
PREM 3/106 - CORSICA, July-October 1943
PREM 3/107/1 - COURTS MARTIAL: Closed for 100 years
PREM 3/107/2 - COURTS MARTIAL: Closed for 100 years
PREM 3/107/3 - COURTS MARTIAL: Various, October 1941-February 1942
PREM 3/108 - COVENTRY: defence of and damage to, November 1940
REEL 30
PREM 3/109 - CRETE, November 1940-September 1942
PREM 3/110 - CROSSBOW: pre-attack: (Rockets and pilotless aircraft), April 1943-February 1944
REEL 31
PREM 3/111A - CROSSBOW: post-attack, June 1944-May 1945
PREM 3/111B - CROSSBOW, August 1944
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