Description
Object description
File of official reports, signals, notes and orders concerning French and British troop movements in France, 11 - 27 May 1940, when he served as Liaison Officer between Lord Gort, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and General Blanchard, commanding 1st French Army, charting the retreat to the Channel and including his reports to General Pownall criticising the French Army's leadership, organisation and attitude to the BEF; ts carbon (31pp) radio signals between London and the GHQ Liaison ('Phantom') Regiment in Greece, with which he was serving until his capture in April 1941, concerning organisation, equipment and status, 230 ms letters/letter cards written while a POW in Germany in Oflags VB, Koenigstein (June 1941), VIID, Titmoning (June - October 1941), VIB Warburg (October 1941 - August 1942), IXA/Z, Rotenburg (August - September 1942), IXA/H, Spangenberg (September 1942 - September 1943), and IVC, Colditz (September 1943 - December 1944), frankly describing his feelings, the Germans, conditions in the camps and pastimes, 2 ms volumes (157pp and 109pp) of memoirs of his military service, 1940 - 1941, written while a POW and published as LAST ON THE LIST in 1974, 16 exercise books of notes of personal reflections and pastimes as a POW, an ms letter (20 January 1945) from the South of France describing his feelings on being repatriated because of a largely feigned heart condition and the original Red Cross and German labels attached to him during his repatriation.
Content description
File of official reports, signals, notes and orders concerning French and British troop movements in France, 11 - 27 May 1940, when he served as Liaison Officer between Lord Gort, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and General Blanchard, commanding 1st French Army, charting the retreat to the Channel and including his reports to General Pownall criticising the French Army's leadership, organisation and attitude to the BEF; ts carbon (31pp) radio signals between London and the GHQ Liaison ('Phantom') Regiment in Greece, with which he was serving until his capture in April 1941, concerning organisation, equipment and status, 230 ms letters/letter cards written while a POW in Germany in Oflags VB, Koenigstein (June 1941), VIID, Titmoning (June - October 1941), VIB Warburg (October 1941 - August 1942), IXA/Z, Rotenburg (August - September 1942), IXA/H, Spangenberg (September 1942 - September 1943), and IVC, Colditz (September 1943 - December 1944), frankly describing his feelings, the Germans, conditions in the camps and pastimes, 2 ms volumes (157pp and 109pp) of memoirs of his military service, 1940 - 1941, written while a POW and published as LAST ON THE LIST in 1974, 16 exercise books of notes of personal reflections and pastimes as a POW, an ms letter (20 January 1945) from the South of France describing his feelings on being repatriated because of a largely feigned heart condition and the original Red Cross and German labels attached to him during his repatriation.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1984-11-14