Citizen Military Forces, 1973-1976

Component identifier:

Series 7

Content Summary:

In April 1973 the Minister of Defence, Lance Barnard, announced that Millar would head a Committee of Inquiry into the future of the Citizen Military Forces. The other members were Major General Kenneth Green, Major General Donald Dunstan, Colonel Lionel Simpson, Wilfred Jarvis and Graham O'Loughlin. The Committee's report was tabled in Parliament in April 1974 and recommended that the name of the CMF be changed to Army Reserve and that it be more closely integrated with the Regular Army. In June 1974 the Committee prepared a report on the Army Cadet Corps.

The series contains correspondence, progress reports to the Minister, comments by the Army on the report, newspaper cuttings, press releases, handwritten notes by Millar, criticisms of the report and actions taken by the Army to implement the report. The correspondents include Lance Barnard, Lionel Simpson, Wilfred Jarvis, Kenneth Green, Sir John Wilton, Sir David Hay, General John Macdonald and Admiral Sir Victor Smith.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first instalment of the papers, comprising most of the articles, lectures, talks, broadcasts and book reviews, were presented to the National Library by Professor T.B. Millar in 1990. The rest of the papers were donated by his widow, Mrs Margaret Millar, and were transferred by his son Mr Jonathan Miller in 1997.

Names:

Millar, T.B. (Thomas Bruce), 1925-1994

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