Description
Object description
Papers relating to his service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) (November 1939 - April 1942) and with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) where he organised stores and supplies for SOE operations in North Africa and Italy (April 1942 - February 1944) and carried out a similar role at Station XII, the SOE department responsible for weapons' development located at Stevenage, Hertfordshire (February 1944 - 1945) comprising contemporary papers relating to his service with the RAOC and SOE including a series of travel documents accumulated during his service with Force 133 in the Mediterranean between July 1943 and January 1944 (May 1940 - March 1946), 37 ms letters (51pp) to his wife, Jean, covering family matters and varied aspects of his Army service such as his travels in the Mediterranean and the large quantity of work expected of him (May 1941 - March 1945), a wartime address and telephone book with some post war additions (1940s), post war correspondence relating both to the award of his MBE in 1946 and his service with SOE (1946 - 1995), certificates for various Allied decorations (1983), wartime photographs of Duke and his colleagues (nd) and newspaper cuttings relating to SOE (1940s - 1960s).
Content description
Papers relating to his service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) (November 1939 - April 1942) and with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) where he organised stores and supplies for SOE operations in North Africa and Italy (April 1942 - February 1944) and carried out a similar role at Station XII, the SOE department responsible for weapons' development located at Stevenage, Hertfordshire (February 1944 - 1945) comprising contemporary papers relating to his service with the RAOC and SOE including a series of travel documents accumulated during his service with Force 133 in the Mediterranean between July 1943 and January 1944 (May 1940 - March 1946), 37 ms letters (51pp) to his wife, Jean, covering family matters and varied aspects of his Army service such as his travels in the Mediterranean and the large quantity of work expected of him (May 1941 - March 1945), a wartime address and telephone book with some post war additions (1940s), post war correspondence relating both to the award of his MBE in 1946 and his service with SOE (1946 - 1995), certificates for various Allied decorations (1983), wartime photographs of Duke and his colleagues (nd) and newspaper cuttings relating to SOE (1940s - 1960s).
History note
Cataloguer AMB
History note
Catalogue date 2003-04