Description
Object description
Collection of papers relating to his service with the Free French between 1943 and 1945, in particular as Délégué Militaire Régional (Regional Military Delegate, from January 1944) for Region R2, with responsibility for the co-ordination of Résistance across the 6 departments within this area, codename 'Circonférence', comprising the following French language versions of German SIPO (Security Police, Sicherheitspolizei) actions against the French resistance in Marseilles: 'Rapport final de l'Enquête sur l'Affaire "Flora" concernant des mouvements de résistance Gaulliste ou Mouvements Unis de Résistance en France' (29pp) ( SIPO, July 1943), 'Rapport Final' (13pp) ( SIPO, July 1944), 'Rapport Final' (21pp) (SIPO, July 1944 - different version of above), 'Rapport Final' (16pp) (SIPO, August 1944), ts extracts (5pp) from a SIPO document prepared by Direction des Services de Documentation , (December 1944); together with a ts letter (2pp) from Burdet to René Naegelen regarding the former's code, (June 1966), sheet music of 'France Libre' (4pp) with dedication by Robert de Merignac, copies of ts correspondence (6pp) between Wing Commander F F E Yeo-Thomas GC and Maurice Buckmaster (wartime head of SOE's F Section) and a copy of a ts letter (1p) from Philippe de Vomécourt to Yeo-Thomas (January 1959).
Content description
Collection of papers relating to his service with the Free French between 1943 and 1945, in particular as Délégué Militaire Régional (Regional Military Delegate, from January 1944) for Region R2, with responsibility for the co-ordination of Résistance across the 6 departments within this area, codename 'Circonférence', comprising the following French language versions of German SIPO (Security Police, Sicherheitspolizei) actions against the French resistance in Marseilles: 'Rapport final de l'Enquête sur l'Affaire "Flora" concernant des mouvements de résistance Gaulliste ou Mouvements Unis de Résistance en France' (29pp) ( SIPO, July 1943), 'Rapport Final' (13pp) ( SIPO, July 1944), 'Rapport Final' (21pp) (SIPO, July 1944 - different version of above), 'Rapport Final' (16pp) (SIPO, August 1944), ts extracts (5pp) from a SIPO document prepared by Direction des Services de Documentation , (December 1944); together with a ts letter (2pp) from Burdet to René Naegelen regarding the former's code, (June 1966), sheet music of 'France Libre' (4pp) with dedication by Robert de Merignac, copies of ts correspondence (6pp) between Wing Commander F F E Yeo-Thomas GC and Maurice Buckmaster (wartime head of SOE's F Section) and a copy of a ts letter (1p) from Philippe de Vomécourt to Yeo-Thomas (January 1959).
History note
Cataloguer AAM
History note
Catalogue date 2002-04-24