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Object description
Well written photocopied ts memoir (159pp illustrated with 26pp of photocopied contemporary documents and photographs) covering his enlistment and initial training with the Royal Corps of Signals (February 1939 - January 1941), then after requesting an overseas posting, his passage on HMT FRANCONIA and the NEW AMSTERDAM to Port Teufiq, and from there to the Signals Base Depot at Maadi in Egypt, his training there with the Irregular Wireless Operator Section (IWOS) (Spring 1941), his first operational posting as a member of 16 G(R) Military Mission, based at Latrun and Haifa in Palestine (July 1941 - January 1942), posting to MO4 in Cairo setting up an experimental wireless station there and transmitting and receiving messages to and from Malta and Istanbul (January - April 1942), a brief period with the IWOS again based at Mount Carmel, Haifa (June - September 1942) then posting to the Force 399 mission to Yugoslavia, to join Captain Hudson and General Mihailovic's Cetnik forces (September 1942 - May 1944) then, following the recall of the mission, his transfer to Special Operations Executive (SOE) Headquarters at Monopoli in Italy followed by a period of leave in Cairo (June - July 1944), posting to Athens, Greece on Operation BALLROOM, reporting on the situation in Greece during the German withdrawal and remaining in Athens until the end of the civil war in January 1945, back in Cairo and at Signals Base Depot (spring 1945), a brief period at General Headquarters as Camp Quartermaster Stores (CQMS) for the Middle East before repatriation and demobilisation in the UK (February 1946). The memoir, which contains good details on all his postings, is of particular note for his descriptions of his reception by Cetnik resistance forces in September 1942, contact with General Mihailovic and the working relationship between the mission and the Cetniks during their time in Yugoslavia and the arrival of Brigadier Armstrong's mission in September 1943, and also includes some interesting comments regarding the decision of the British authorities to transfer their support from Mihailovic to Tito in early 1944.
Content description
Well written photocopied ts memoir (159pp illustrated with 26pp of photocopied contemporary documents and photographs) covering his enlistment and initial training with the Royal Corps of Signals (February 1939 - January 1941), then after requesting an overseas posting, his passage on HMT FRANCONIA and the NEW AMSTERDAM to Port Teufiq, and from there to the Signals Base Depot at Maadi in Egypt, his training there with the Irregular Wireless Operator Section (IWOS) (Spring 1941), his first operational posting as a member of 16 G(R) Military Mission, based at Latrun and Haifa in Palestine (July 1941 - January 1942), posting to MO4 in Cairo setting up an experimental wireless station there and transmitting and receiving messages to and from Malta and Istanbul (January - April 1942), a brief period with the IWOS again based at Mount Carmel, Haifa (June - September 1942) then posting to the Force 399 mission to Yugoslavia, to join Captain Hudson and General Mihailovic's Cetnik forces (September 1942 - May 1944) then, following the recall of the mission, his transfer to Special Operations Executive (SOE) Headquarters at Monopoli in Italy followed by a period of leave in Cairo (June - July 1944), posting to Athens, Greece on Operation BALLROOM, reporting on the situation in Greece during the German withdrawal and remaining in Athens until the end of the civil war in January 1945, back in Cairo and at Signals Base Depot (spring 1945), a brief period at General Headquarters as Camp Quartermaster Stores (CQMS) for the Middle East before repatriation and demobilisation in the UK (February 1946). The memoir, which contains good details on all his postings, is of particular note for his descriptions of his reception by Cetnik resistance forces in September 1942, contact with General Mihailovic and the working relationship between the mission and the Cetniks during their time in Yugoslavia and the arrival of Brigadier Armstrong's mission in September 1943, and also includes some interesting comments regarding the decision of the British authorities to transfer their support from Mihailovic to Tito in early 1944.
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Cataloguer AAM
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Catalogue date 2003-01-18