Central Distribution Section (CDS) and Stationery Service (SS) pamphlets available online

[MaureenE]

Thank you for documenting all these links.

 

Maureen

[A Rankin]

Maureen, Thank you... I figure if more of these are known, then it can only improve the quality of research being conducted. I would also thank you for your own efforts in this area.

 

 

I have some corrections for links to pamphlets held by the UK National Archives. The DVD "The War Diaries of the Battalions who fought the Great War on the Western Front" does not give the full piece number for entries. Therefore some of the links I posted where of the wrong sub-section of the diaries. Some corrections are below. Thank you to John Armatys and other members who drew my attention to this issue.

 

Corrigendum

CDS 9 Notes on the Co-operation of Aircraft and Other Arms when the Army is on the move     

WO 95/1561/5  https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053126

 

CDS 13 Co-operation of Aeroplanes with Artillery

WO 95/3912/1  https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056353

 

SS 127 Drills with small box-respirators

WO 95/2685/2 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354505

 

SS 132 Conventional Signs for use with Artillery Maps Revised Edition Feb 1918

TNA WO 95/2650/4 1/7 Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (PIONEERS)  1918 Feb. - 1919 Apr.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354429

Edited 9 April , 2021 by A Rankin
typo

[WhiteStarLine]

On 10/02/2021 at 21:31, A Rankin said:

SS 639 Photograph - Appearance of Tanks from the Air

 

Twitter via Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/503066220860793056/ (I have been unable to find original IWM tweet or the photo on their website)

Adam, what a great resource - I can't even guess how long that would have taken you.

 

This is a great photograph and a deep zoom image is on the IWM web site.  Negative number is Q17757.  Link is https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205252296

Edited 11 April , 2021 by WhiteStarLine
Apologies to Adam for calling him Andy.

[A Rankin]

Thanks WhiteStarLine,

 

   I had been looking in IWM's site for quite a while trying to find that photograph...I'm glad to have a more official source for the photograph than Pinterest.

 

I first started working with the SS/CDS series in 2014, but I didn't get the idea to continue the work of getting a finding aid/full list until early 2019. So its been a couple of years of work now.

 

Adam

[A Rankin]

SS 612 Memorandum showing the precautions taken for the prevention of damage by frost to M.T. Vehicles Oct 1917

 

Contained within AWM25 959/8 - [Transport, mechanical (including motor cycles)] Memorandum and administrative instructions regarding precautions to be taken for the prevention of damage by frost to mechanical transport vehicles

 

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2789383

[A Rankin]

SS 166 Instructions for the demolition of Hostile Guns with 3-inch Stokes Trench Mortar Bombs and special slow Fuze

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2793746

[A Rankin]

CDS 82 Instructions regarding the construction of trenches and shelters

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2793741

[A Rankin]

SS 762 List of German Material Required for Inspection Nov 1918

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2795106

SS 520 Instructions regarding disposal of Officers serving with other units than their own

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2795109

SS 727 New patterns of German Shell required for inspection

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2795107

[A Rankin]

SS 523 Regulations Regarding Leave. Leave to the United Kingdom Aug 1917

 

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2797791

[A Rankin]

SS 525 Protection of small box respirators against wet Nov 1916

SS 176 Instructions for the attachment of new containers to small box respirators by company (battery etc.) gas N.C.O.s Aug 1917

Both found in AWM25 371/59 - [Written records, 1914-18 War] Gas. The small box respirator. Manufacture, improvements etc, 1916-1918 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2797820

 

SS 405 Notes on German Artillery Emplacements, 1915

AWM27 320/61 - [Military Engineering:] Notes on German artillery emplacements, 1915 (Apr 1916) https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2798136

 

SS 457 Formation of Prisoner of War Companies. Orders and Instructions. [Sep 1916, Feb 1917 and Feb 1918 versions of pamphlet]

AWM27 424/8 - [Treatment of Prisoners of War:] Formation of (German) Prisoners of War Companies - Orders and instructions (Feb 1917)

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2798135

[A Rankin]

SS 180 Notes on Screens Sep 1917

AWM27 503/6 - [Camouflage:] "Notes on Screens" - Pamphlet issued by General Staff, Sept 1917
  https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2798605
 

[A Rankin]

CDS 344 The abolition of flies in camps, billets and hospitals [DGMS Circular Memorandum 8] May 1915

AWM41 869 - [Official History, 1914-18 War: Records of Arthur G Butler:] The Abolition of Flies in Camps Billets and Hospitals https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2801324

SS 407 Composition of Headquarters, British Armies in France. March 1918, August 1918, December 1918

https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Composition_of_Headquarters_British_Armi/txBANOFa8ZUC?hl=en&gbpv=0

[A Rankin]

The Biblioteca do Exército (Army Library) of Portugal has digitized quite a few pamphlets.  Some of these have already been uploaded previously and some pamphlets in the below list have been found online in other archives. A few have not been found in many other archives.
 

SS 1030 Schedule for aeroplane engines. Type R.A.F. 4A ND

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205018~!0

 

SS 483 German Field Artillery Ammunition and Its Employment Oct 1916

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205034~!0

 

SS 704 Extracts from the Provisional instructions for the Employment of Gas Shell Oct 1917

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205095~!0

 

SS 718 Confidential Circular regarding leave in France Jun 1918

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!248964~!0

 

SS 718 A Confidential Circular regarding leave trains in France

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205111~!0

 

SS 484 German Foot Artillery Batteries identified between the sea and the Oise, Nos 4 and 6

 

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!206737~!0

 

SS 630 Circular Memorandum. Discipline of Coloured Labour Units Feb 1918

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209788~!0

 

SS 530B Circular Memorandum No. 22. Acting Appointments, Warrant Officers, Class 1, and Non-Commissioned Officers, Royal Army Medical Corps Aug 1917

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205108~!0

 

SS 523 Regulations Regarding Leave Feb 1918

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209789~!0

 

SS 762 List of German Material Required for Inspection Nov 1918

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209779~!0

 

SS 780 Description, Method of use, Employment, Handling and Packing of Long-Delay Fuze for Medium and Heavy "Minenwerfer" Bombs

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205122~!0

 

SS 579 Extracts from the Experiences of the Sixth German Army in the Employment of the ‘08/’015 Light Machine Gun

 http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209781~!0

 

SS 737 Instructions and Rules of guidance for the conduct of every German soldier who is taken prisoner

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209785~!0

 

SS 715 German system of squaring maps

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205100~!0

 

SS 753 Change in Discipline and Moral of the German Army. January-September, 1918

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205098~!0

 

SS 575 Summary of Measures against Surprise Attacks

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205096~!0

 

SS 734 German Traps and Mines

 http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!204258~!0

 

SS 701 Notes on the Construction of Positions on the Ypres battle Front for the Coming Winter

 http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205093~!0

 

SS 447 Duties and Employment of the 4th Artillery Survey Section (Artillerie-Messtrupp) and the 49th Sound Ranging Section (Schallmesstrupp).

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205046~!0

 

SS 727 New patterns of German Shell required for inspection

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205044~!0

 

SS 562 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms. Part 3. Weapons of Close Combat ("Nahkamphfmittel").

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205043~!0

 

SS 541 German Instructions for the Employment of "Granatenwerfer" or Stick Bomb Throwers

SS 641 New Type of Bomb for "Granatwerfer" (or Stick Bomb Thrower)

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205041~!0

 

SS 531 German Instructions for the Employment of Flame Projectors

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205040~!0

 

SS 707 The Employment of Machine Guns in Trench Warfare

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205038~!0

 

SS 450 Regulations for Machine-Gun Officers and Non-commissioned officers

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205036~!0

 

SS 721 The Light "Minenwerfer" on Flat-Trajectory Carriage

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205033~!0

 

SS 544 Experiences of the Recent Fighting at Verdun

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205029~!0

 

SS 553A Extracts from a German Document entitled Experience of the German 1st Army in the Somme Battle

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205028~!0

 

SS 572 German Anti-Aircraft Organization

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205027~!0

 

SS 486 Extracts from German Documents Dealing with "Lessons Drawn from the Battle of the Somme."

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205025~!0

 

 

SS 644C Classification and Engagement of Enemy Divisions in the Western Theatre, 21st March - 11th November, 1918

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205024~!0

 

SS 644 Battle Engagements of German Divisions

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205023~!0

 

SS 485 Army Order Regarding the Execution of Counter-attacks

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!248974~!0

 

SS 732 The 1917 German Long Delay Action Fuze for Demolition Purposes

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205026~!0

 

SS 742/3 Photographs of German Guns. Serial 3. Medium and Heavy Field Howitzers

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205035~!0

 

SS 559 Diagram showing the organization & defences of a divisional sector (from a German document captured in April 1917)

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205032~!0

SS 731 Leakage of Information through Prisoners of War

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205112~!0

 

SS 617 Courts of Inquiry

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205110~!0

 

SS 569 Signal-thrower. "Signalwerfer" or "Nachrichtenwerfer"

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205109~!0

 

SS 1020/2 Brigade Machine Gun Officers. Minutes of 14th Monthly Meeting

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209792~!0

 

SS 499 Circular Letter. Fires. Instructions as to Inquiry and Liability

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209791~!0

 

SS 752 Suspension of sentences

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209790~!0

 

SS 627 Recommendations of Officers for Command and for Appointment to and Advancement on, the Staff

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209787~!0

 

SS 725 Fire fighting. Care of Fire Appliances and Fire Drills

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!238720~!0

[A Rankin]

SS 778

Province of Rhenish Prussia / occupied by British forces, December 1918

National Library of Australia https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1677900

[A Rankin]

SS 407 Composition of headquarters : British Armies in France March 1917

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2695685

 

[A Rankin]

SS 340 Extracts from General Routine Orders issued to the British Armies in  France by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, KT., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E.  Part II. Quartermaster General's Branch, Supplementary Edition. General Headquarters, 1st January, 1919.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2853283

[A Rankin]

SS 340 Jan 1918 Extracts from general routine orders issued to the British army in the field by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig . : Part 2. Quartermaster General's Branch.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2853356

 

[A Rankin]

SS 340 Extracts from General Routine Orders issued to the British Army in the Field by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, K.T., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E.  Part II. Quartermaster General's Branch. [Less Ordnance Orders published separately in Part II (b)]. General Headquarters, 1st July, 1918.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2853262

 

[A Rankin]

SS 309 Jan 1918 Extracts from General Routine Orders issued to the British Armies in France K.T., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.L.E. Part I. Adjutant-General's Branch. General Headquarters, 1st January, 1918

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2853246

CDS 340 Extracts from general routine orders issued to the British army in the field by Field-Marshal Sir J.D.P. French . Part 2. Quartermaster General's Branch

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2853235

[A Rankin]

SS 355 The German Forces in the Field 5th Revision, October 1917.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2851983

[A Rankin]

SS 504/514 (confusion as to numbering) Instructions for Fuzing H.E. Shells 4.5-in. Howitzer & above Jul 1917

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2851986

 

[A Rankin]

SS 621 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms Part 1A Apr 1917

SS 558 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms Part 1A Nov 1916

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2844742

[Matlock1418]

Adam,

Another big thank you to you for your continuing work - much appreciated. 

M

[A Rankin]

Thanks Matlock...There should be another little cluster coming soon from the AWM...hopefully they will also upload the collection items as well as the AWM25 and AWM27 series

 

[Chris Henschke]

According to the March 1918 version of SS 390,  Instructions for Fuzing H.E. Shells 4.5-in. Howitzer (July 1917) is listed as SS 514.

Chris Henschke