CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph memorandum and typed memorandum signed (with initials), War Office, 8 and 15 June 1919, in the first asking who is responsible for an order that officers are to attend regimental dinners in service uniform, the second pointing out that the order is not always being obeyed, noting that as a regimental dinner is a 'private affair', it was 'undesirable to make the change to uniform', but that if it was to be done, 'there ought to be compliance', with three other memoranda, on three pages, 4to and folio (punch holes, minor soiling). (2)

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph memorandum and typed memorandum signed (with initials), War Office, 8 and 15 June 1919, in the first asking who is responsible for an order that officers are to attend regimental dinners in service uniform, the second pointing out that the order is not always being obeyed, noting that as a regimental dinner is a 'private affair', it was 'undesirable to make the change to uniform', but that if it was to be done, 'there ought to be compliance', with three other memoranda, on three pages, 4to and folio (punch holes, minor soiling). (2)

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