Description
Object description
Papers collated during his service with the Special Operations Executive including his Officer's Record of Service, a pass for the Inter Services Research Bureau (dated July 1943), a dance programme for the SOE training school Station 61 (December 1944) and a history of Anderson Manor, near Blandford, Dorset (used as STS 62 by SOE) with correspondence (15 items) relating to members of SOE, including a letter from Anders Lassen VC (March 1943) and two letters from his mother (December 1945 and June 1946), letters concerning Major Geoffrey Appleyard (killed 1943), Jan Hellings and the personnel involved in a Small Scale Raiding Force raid on the French coast in September 1942 (Operation Aquatint), including a letter from CSM Tom Winter, written from Stalag 344 in January 1944, enquiring after Graham Hayes who had been captured with him on the raid but subsequently executed, and a letter mentioning agent André from the same raid who had apparently been 'turned' by the Gestapo, as well as an autographed menu (June 1945), a membership card for the Special Forces Club (1947), 15 wartime photographs and a photocopied photograph; also an autograph album belonging to his wife Margaret (née Ferguson) kept while she was serving as a nursing sister (Captain) in the QAIMNSR at Shaftesbury Military Hospital, the QA Military Hospital, Watford and the Colchester Military Hospital, circa 1941 – 1944, with verses, drawings, 18 photographs and the signatures of her colleagues and her patients, including her future husband, whom she nursed after his return from Africa where he had served with SOE's Small Scale Raiding Force, the cricket commentator Captain Brian Johnston (with photograph) and soldiers who had served with Major General Wingate's Chindit force in Burma, together with a letter dated April 1944 concerning her service and copies of 8 loose photographs.
Content description
Papers collated during his service with the Special Operations Executive including his Officer's Record of Service, a pass for the Inter Services Research Bureau (dated July 1943), a dance programme for the SOE training school Station 61 (December 1944) and a history of Anderson Manor, near Blandford, Dorset (used as STS 62 by SOE) with correspondence (15 items) relating to members of SOE, including a letter from Anders Lassen VC (March 1943) and two letters from his mother (December 1945 and June 1946), letters concerning Major Geoffrey Appleyard (killed 1943), Jan Hellings and the personnel involved in a Small Scale Raiding Force raid on the French coast in September 1942 (Operation Aquatint), including a letter from CSM Tom Winter, written from Stalag 344 in January 1944, enquiring after Graham Hayes who had been captured with him on the raid but subsequently executed, and a letter mentioning agent André from the same raid who had apparently been 'turned' by the Gestapo, as well as an autographed menu (June 1945), a membership card for the Special Forces Club (1947), 15 wartime photographs and a photocopied photograph; also an autograph album belonging to his wife Margaret (née Ferguson) kept while she was serving as a nursing sister (Captain) in the QAIMNSR at Shaftesbury Military Hospital, the QA Military Hospital, Watford and the Colchester Military Hospital, circa 1941 – 1944, with verses, drawings, 18 photographs and the signatures of her colleagues and her patients, including her future husband, whom she nursed after his return from Africa where he had served with SOE's Small Scale Raiding Force, the cricket commentator Captain Brian Johnston (with photograph) and soldiers who had served with Major General Wingate's Chindit force in Burma, together with a letter dated April 1944 concerning her service and copies of 8 loose photographs.
History note
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