Brigadier- General J.E. Edmonds CB, CMG, Hon. D.Litt (Oxon), RE (Retd), psc (British)

Edmonds was the main Official Historian. After attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, passing out with a First, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. During the war, he served in France and Belgium with the Engineer-in-Chief's Department at GHQ, becoming Deputy Engineer-in-Chief. He was appointed in 1919 as Director of the Historical Section (Military Branch) of the Committee of Imperial Defence, with the task of producing an Official History of the War.

RCC6205  1. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne, and the Aisne: Aug - Oct 1914.  (Edmonds)

RCC6796  11. History of the Great War. Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1917 Vol 2, 7th June - 10th November: Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)  (Edmonds)

RCC6851  13. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918. The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries.  (Edmonds)

RCC6998  15. History of The Great War. Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence. Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1918. March - April: Continuation of the German Offensives  (Edmonds)

RCC7047  17. History of The Great War. Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Military Operations, France and Belgium 1918, Vol 4: 8 August - 26 September The Franco British Offensive  (Edmonds)

RCC6211  18. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Military Operations Italy 1915 - 1919  (Edmonds, Davies)

RCC6207  2. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Military Operations France and Belgium 1914: Antwerp, La Bassee, Armentieres, Messines and Ypres: Oct - Nov 1914.  (Edmonds)

RCC6208  3. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents: By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915: Winter 1914-1915, Battle of Neuve Chappelle, Battle of Ypres  (Edmonds)

RCC7759  36. History of the Great War. Based From Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat. The Occupation of Constantinople 1918 - 1923 (Provisional)  (Edmonds)

RCC6209  5. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents: By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence:Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915: Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos.  (Edmonds)

RCC6210  6. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents: By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1916: Sir Douglas Haig's Command to the 1st July: Battle of the Somme  (Edmonds)

RCC8049  The History of the Great War. Based on Official Documents. By Direction of the Historical Section of the War Cabinet Secreteriat. The Occupation of the Rhineland, 1918-1929  (Edmonds)