Many of the yellowed documents, which were found underneath the floorboards in a room at the Balmer Lawn Hotel in Brockenhurst, were marked "On His Majesty's Secret Service" and appeared to have been left there over 70 years ago.
Their survival is all the more remarkable given that the building, which was used as an army staff college during World War II, had been damaged in a huge fire back in the 1970s.
"We are still in the process of evaluating the papers but some seem to include code on while others are more to do with the day-to-day organisation of the soldiers," said a hotel spokesman.
"One document refers to D-Day1 - June 7 1944 - and mentions difficulties in setting up a ten-mile telephone cable as troops continued advancing into northern France."
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