Scope and Content Note
The papers of George S. Simonds (1874-1938) span the years 1894-1937, with the bulk of the material pertaining to the operation of the U.S Army’s 2nd Corps with the British armies during the Ypres-Lys (leper) and Somme offensives of 1918, the operation of the American Embarkation Center (Le Mans, France), and the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, Geneva, Switzerland, 1932-1934. Included are correspondence, memoranda, reports, military orders, speeches, newspaper clippings, other printed matter, photographs, and miscellany. Personal correspondence begins with Simonds as a student and instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point in the 1890s. Other papers consist of training documents, investigative files, personal records concerning the Army War College and the War Plans Division of the War Department, and background material on maneuvers, assignments, and national defense.