green_acorn Posted 5 July , 2010 Share Posted 5 July , 2010 Pals, I am a sucker for self inflicted mental punishment and out of frustration have started creating a single list of documents with a CDS or SS reference number published by the Army Printing and Stationery Service, to help focus my research plans for the future. I started with the list of about 150 CDS & SS documents published at the Birmingham University Centre for First World War Studies Birmingham CDS & SS Publications List and incorporated information from the "Military Manuals Collectors Club" at Yahoo Groups and am in the process of confirming/correcting the resulting list of about 750 documents against a list I purchased from the IWM. After that I will look at incorporating information from the AWM, which unfortunately doesn't have the documents cross-listed by the originators reference numbers (ie: CDS or SS ...). Other than giving a copy to Birmingham University and to the Yahoo Group - Military Manual Collectors Club, is there any way of making it available as a reference document here on the GWF? I am also including a column identifying where a document is publicly available from, and will include www links where I know them, so would greatly appreciate any links pals may have. One of the enigmas in doing this has been what were the similar documents published by GHQ MEF's and GHQ EEF? Are they all in the 40/WO/ .. series I occasionally find? Is there a similar resource of documents for these headquarters? Cheers, Hendo PS: If you really want to know the title of a British military manual from 1800 to 1975, visit the Yahoo group "Military Manuals Collectors Club", the lists they have are mind boggling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_acorn Posted 7 July , 2010 Author Share Posted 7 July , 2010 To give Pals an idea of where I am up to, the following is my combined list of documents produced by the central Distribution Section up to number 98: CDS 1 Notes on Field Defences - December 1914 CDS 2 Notes from the Front, 1914 - November 1914 CDS 3 Notes from the Front Part II - November 1914 CDS 4 Notes from the Front Part III and Further Notes on Field Defences - December 1914 CDS 5 Trench Warfare, Notes on Attack and Defence, February 1915 CDS 6 Notes on Field Defences. No. 15 - October 1915 CDS 7 German land mines: description of mines and firing apparatus, etc., extracted from the "Spengvorschrift" - October 1915 CDS 9 Co-operation of Aircraft and other arms when the army is on the move, 1915 CDS 10 Notes on Landing Grounds - 1915 CDS 11 Stove Pipe Attachment for Machine Guns, 1915 CDS 12 Hyposcope attachment for machine guns, 1915 CDS 13 Co-operation of Aeroplanes with Artillery, 1915 CDS 14 Notes on Field Defences No. 17, 1915 CDS 15 The Training and Employment of Grenadiers, 1915 CDS 16 Notes on Signal communications within a Division when holding a defensive line, 1915 CDS 19 Notes on field defences. No. 16 - March 1915 CDS 20 Notes on Ranging Trials with the Gamage Catapult carried out in England - December 1915 CDS 21 Notes on protection against poisonous gases, 1915 CDS 22 Notes on Field Defences No. 18, 1915 CDS 23 Preliminary deductions for instruction from recent engagements, Translated from the French - June 1915 CDS 24 Object and Conditions of Combined Offensive Action, Translated from the French - June 1915 CDS 25 Splinter Proofs, 1915 CDS 26 Diagrams of aeroplanes, 1915 CDS 27 Poisonous air encountered in underground work, 1915 CDS 28 Notes on strengthening defensive portions of the line, 1915 CDS 29 Notes on field telephone work - October, 1915 CDS 30 Close shooting by guns and howitzers, 1915 CDS 31 Notes on registration of artillery targets, 1915 CDS 32 Instructions for calibration of guns in the field, 1915 CDS 33 Co-operation of aeroplanes with other arms, 1915 CDS 35 German aeroplane seen June 29th 1915, over Houthnlst - July, 1915. CDS 35 Distinguishing marks and types of German aeroplanes, 1915 CDS 36 Notes on the Tactical Employment of Machine Guns and the Training of Machine Gunners - June 1915 CDS 38 Fire by Selected Batteries (July 1915) CDS 39 Instructions for firing at aeroplanes with small arm ammunition, 1915 CDS 40 Co-operation of aeroplanes and artillery when using wireless, 1915 CDS 41 Report on captured German trenches, 1915 CDS 42 Alterations and changes necessary to enable English ammunition to be fired from German machine guns, 1915 CDS 43 Further types of German aeroplanes, 1915 CDS 45 Amendments to “Object, etc., of combined offensive action”, 1915 CDS 46 Fall of Shot CDS 47 Further type of German aeroplane, 1915 CDS 48 Reporting of Hostile airships, 1915 CDS 49 Range Table - corrections for temperature (18-pr.), 1915 CDS 50 Tactical Notes. Compiled by the General Staff, General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force, 31 July 1915. Aug 1915 CDS 52 Notes for the guidance of meteorological observers, July 1915 CDS 53 Notes from the Front, Part IV (May 1915) CDS 54 Range Table for 18-pr. Guns, Marks I and II, 1915 CDS 55 Translation of a German Document: Construction of shelters for machine guns - 1915 CDS 56 Range Table - corrections for 15-pr. B.L.C., 1915 CDS 57 German field artillery: extracts from range tables, 7c (title conjectural), 1915 CDS 58 Description, “Ball” grenade and instructions for use, 1915 CDS 58 List of General Staff publications - 1 September, 1915. CDS 58 List of General Staff publications: corrected to 30th November, 1915 - 1 December 1915 CDS 59 Notes on the destruction of hostile batteries by artillery, 1915 CDS 60 Notes compiled by the Experiments Committee - August, 191 4 (October, 1915 printing). CDS 61 Range Tables for firing against aeroplanes with machine guns, 1915 CDS 62 Machine gun emplacements - September, 1915. CDS 66 Notes on British, French and German grenades - September, 1915. CDS 67 Notes on visual signalling with service electric lamps, 1915 CDS 68 Pear-shaped grenade (percussion): description and illustrations for use - 29 August 1915 CDS 70 Tactical Notes. Compiled by the General Staff, General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force, September 1915 Tactical Notes. Compiled by the General Staff, General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force, October 1915 CDS 71 Reports on the subject of German “Flammenwerfer”, 1915 CDS 72 Grenade, I.S.K., 1915 CDS 73 Notes on improvised “Buzzer” telephone exchanges, 1915 CDS 74 The training and employment of Grenadiers - October 1915 CDS 76 Hints on remedying stoppages in the Lewis machine gun - 1915 CDS 77 Notes for the guidance of meteorological observers - October 1915 CDS 78 Precautions to be taken when firing smoke shell from the Stokes mortar - October 1915 CDS 79 Translation of a German Document: The employment of minenwerfer by General Fleck, General Officer Commanding, Army Group - November 1915 CDS 80 Translation of a German document found on an officer, May 1915: Minenwerfer - November 1915 CDS 81 Translation of a German Document captured on 16th Jun 1915: Instructions regarding the steps to be taken to strengthen their position / General V. Schubert - November 1915 CDS 82 Translation of a German Document: Instructions regarding the construction of trenches and shelters - November 1915. CDS 83 Translation of a German Document: The lessons of the recent fighting in the Ban de Sapt by General Von Eberhardt - November 1915. CDS 84 Translation of a German document to the H.Q. of Army Corps and of the 6th Bavarian R. Division and 111th Division, the Artillery Generals of the South and North Sectors and the Pioneer General : Experiences of the 5th Army in the attacks in the Argonne - General Graf V. Lamsdorff - November, 1915. CDS 85 Translation of a German Document: Lessons of the recent fighting in the Argonne - 1915 CDS 86 Translation of a German document: Memorandum regarding the employment of gas shells - General Von Falkenhayn - November 1915. CDS 87 Translation of a German document: Instructions relative to the conduct of the artillery in the corps sectors - November, 1915. CDS 88 Translation of a German Document: Artillery: general principles Argonne - November 1915. CDS 89 Translation of a German Document: Barrage fire in case of attack and the necessary expenditure of ammunition - General Von Falkenhayn - November 1915. CDS 92 Notes on artillery observation from kite balloons - November, 1915. CDS 93 Report on Experimental Firing with 18pr Shrapnel and H.E. at Calais - November 1915 CDS 96 Notes compiled by the Experiments Committee (Second Series), 1915 CDS 98/1 Artillery Notes No. 1: Close Shooting in the Field - January 1916 CDS 98/2 Artillery Notes No. 2: Field Artillery Ammunition - January 1916 CDS 98/3 Artillery Notes No. 3 Counter Battery work - 1916 CDS 98/4 Artillery Notes No. 4: Artillery in Offensive Operations - April 1916 CDS 98/5 Artillery Notes No. 5: Wire Cutting by Artillery - February 1916 CDS 98/6 Artillery Notes No. 6: Trench Mortars - March 1916 The combined list of CDS and SS registered documents I have listed goes to somewhere in the order of 800 documents and I would dare say would greatly help those doing WW1 research. Would greatly appreciate any information Pals want to share. I will be submitting the list to Birmingham University and the Military Manuals Collectors Club. Cheers, Hendo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_acorn Posted 8 July , 2010 Author Share Posted 8 July , 2010 I would also greatly appreciate any comments and corrections! Cheers, Hendo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWRCo Posted 10 July , 2010 Share Posted 10 July , 2010 Hi Hendo, do you have copies of these documents readily available? If so, i wouldn't mind a couple myself, of which i'm more than happy to pay for! tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_acorn Posted 10 July , 2010 Author Share Posted 10 July , 2010 Hi Hendo, do you have copies of these documents readily available? If so, i wouldn't mind a couple myself, of which i'm more than happy to pay for! tim Tim, No I don't have them myself, when I give the list to Birmingham Uni, I hope to have their known locations identified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_acorn Posted 8 August , 2010 Author Share Posted 8 August , 2010 G'day all I am closing this thread due to inactivity and would ask anyone who wishes to add information relating to CDS or SS documents to SS and Other Documents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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