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Folder of proof copies of Patrol Flotillas operations orders (Manuscript) 1914-09-01 - 1915-05-19 BLRD/2/1/5
Folder containing proof copies of patrol flotillas operations orders issued by Ballard while Admiral of Patrols during the first year of the First World War. Heavily annotated in pencil.
Report of committee on armaments of home ports (Manuscript) 1905 BLRD/2/1/2
Report of committee on armaments of home ports, of which Ballard was a member. His personal copy.
Receipt for a shotgun loaned by George Alexander Ballard to the Local Volunteer Defence Corps (Manuscript) 20 June 1940 BLRD/2/4/6
Typed receipt for a double barrelled shotgun received from Admiral Ballard for use of the Local Volunteer Defence Corps. Signed by the officer in charge of the police station in Downton, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and invitations covering George Alexander Ballard's naval career (Manuscript) 1885-1948 BLRD/2/3/5
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and invitations covering George Alexander Ballard's naval career from his time in Burma in 1885 through to his retirement in 1921 with most of the volume focused on the First World War.…
Copy of Staff College admission exam results for George Alexander Ballard's son Captain J.A.W. Ballard (Manuscript) 11 July 1938 BLRD/2/4/5
Copy of exam results for Ballard's son Captain James Archibald William Ballard of The Northamptonshire Regiment for admission to the Staff Colleges at Camberley and Quetta, signed by Major D.W. Gordon, Director of Military Training.
Letters from George Alexander Ballard to his family during early naval career (Manuscript) 1877-07-06 - 1886-12-22 BLRD/2/2/2
Letters sent by George Alexander Ballard to his parents and siblings during his early naval career. These include his account written while in HMS ACHILLES of the British fleet forcing a passage of the Dardanelles under Admiral Hornby in 1878.…
Copies of letters between the War Office and Admiralty arranging for George Alexander Ballard to deliver a lecture on Imperial Defence (Manuscript) 1903-08-06 - 1903-09-03 BLRD/2/1/7
Copies of letters sent between the War Office and Admiralty in response to a request from the Committee of Aldershot Military Society for a naval officer to give a lecture on Imperial Defence which Ballard was subsequently selected to deliver.
Sketch of a Riverboat on the upper Irrawaddy River (Manuscript) Undated BLRD/2/4/8
Sketch in pencil of a River boat on the upper Irrawaddy River, possibly by George Alexander Ballard.
Photograph of Joanna Ballard and children, including George Alexander Ballard, with a later account written by him of their time in New Zealand (Manuscript) 1871 BLRD/2/3/2
Photograph of Joanna Ballard with her children George, Susan, Jane and Joanna taken while they were living in New Zealand.…
Copy of report by Ballard on officers under his command who merited favourable recognition. (Manuscript) 30 April 1916 BLRD/2/1/6
Typewritten report stamped 'Copy' by Admiral George Alexander Ballard submitting names of officers who he felt merited recognition for their war service under his command as Admiral of Patrols during the First World War.…
Personal reminiscences of George Alexander Ballard (Manuscript) 1919 BLRD/2/3/1
Begun in 1919 these unfinished memoirs cover Ballard's naval career from his time as a cadet through to his participation in the Third Anglo-Burmese War 1885.…