Private Papers of Mrs A M Street

Bound ts memoir (59pp) covering briefly a prewar visit to Germany where she saw Hitler and her part time youth work in London as well as more fully her wartime employment: in the registry section of MI5 in Wormwood Scrubs prison, then in Blenheim Palace, 1940 - (?) 1941, as a secretary with SOE in London (?) 1941 - 1942, Cairo, 1942 - 1943, and Bari, Italy, 1943 - 1945 where eventually she was transferred to work for the Balkan Air Force with details of her lively social life, the SOE personalities whom she met and a six week stint nursing Yugoslav partisans in Gruma hospital south of Bari in addition to which she chronicles the military career of her husband, Major General V W Street, whom she met and married in Italy, covering his service as a staff officer with 14th Infantry Brigade in Palestine, 1938 - 1940, with 8th Infantry Division in Egypt, 1940 - 1941, on secondment to Greece, March 1941, at GHQ Cairo, 1941 - 1942, with the SAS in the Western Desert, 1942, including details of his capture, imprisonment and subsequent escape from a torpedoed Italian submarine, with the 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, as second in command in North Africa, 1943, and Italy, 1944 - 1945, and with SOE in Yugoslavia, September 1943 - October 1944; also 3 ms letters (1943 - 1944) from SOE friends, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Sandy Rendel, on Crete and in Bosnia and various ts verses (6pp) mainly about SOE and office life.

Bound ts memoir (59pp) covering briefly a prewar visit to Germany where she saw Hitler and her part time youth work in London as well as more fully her wartime employment: in the registry section of MI5 in Wormwood Scrubs prison, then in Blenheim Palace, 1940 - (?) 1941, as a secretary with SOE in London (?) 1941 - 1942, Cairo, 1942 - 1943, and Bari, Italy, 1943 - 1945 where eventually she was transferred to work for the Balkan Air Force with details of her lively social life, the SOE personalities whom she met and a six week stint nursing Yugoslav partisans in Gruma hospital south of Bari in addition to which she chronicles the military career of her husband, Major General V W Street, whom she met and married in Italy, covering his service as a staff officer with 14th Infantry Brigade in Palestine, 1938 - 1940, with 8th Infantry Division in Egypt, 1940 - 1941, on secondment to Greece, March 1941, at GHQ Cairo, 1941 - 1942, with the SAS in the Western Desert, 1942, including details of his capture, imprisonment and subsequent escape from a torpedoed Italian submarine, with the 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, as second in command in North Africa, 1943, and Italy, 1944 - 1945, and with SOE in Yugoslavia, September 1943 - October 1944; also 3 ms letters (1943 - 1944) from SOE friends, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Sandy Rendel, on Crete and in Bosnia and various ts verses (6pp) mainly about SOE and office life.

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Catalogue date 1997-01