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Object description
Ts memoir (83pp) covering his service as a Radar engineer (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France (1940), his first Special Operations Executive (SOE) mission to France (July 1942) (SCIENTIST Circuit) and, after breaking his leg on landing, returning to Britain via Spain, his relationship with Violette Szabo GC, his second mission, code named FRANCOIS, in the Correze region of France to help establish the AUTHOR circuit, on which he was captured (September 1943 - March 1944) and his subsequent incarceration and escape from Buchenwald concentration camp with Wing Commander F F E Yeo-Thomas GC (March 1944 - April 1945). The memoir is accompanied by an unfinished ts account (8pp) of his period of captivity at Fresnes prison near Paris and at Buchenwald (April 1945), a series of 12 ts letters (12pp) from the War Office to Peulevé's mother mainly regarding her son's well being whilst on active service in France (August 1942 - May 1944), 3 scrap books of photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings relating to his SOE service (1930s - 1960s), letters of condolence following his death in March 1963 (March - April 1963) and other miscellaneous papers relating to his civilian life.
Content description
Ts memoir (83pp) covering his service as a Radar engineer (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France (1940), his first Special Operations Executive (SOE) mission to France (July 1942) (SCIENTIST Circuit) and, after breaking his leg on landing, returning to Britain via Spain, his relationship with Violette Szabo GC, his second mission, code named FRANCOIS, in the Correze region of France to help establish the AUTHOR circuit, on which he was captured (September 1943 - March 1944) and his subsequent incarceration and escape from Buchenwald concentration camp with Wing Commander F F E Yeo-Thomas GC (March 1944 - April 1945). The memoir is accompanied by an unfinished ts account (8pp) of his period of captivity at Fresnes prison near Paris and at Buchenwald (April 1945), a series of 12 ts letters (12pp) from the War Office to Peulevé's mother mainly regarding her son's well being whilst on active service in France (August 1942 - May 1944), 3 scrap books of photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings relating to his SOE service (1930s - 1960s), letters of condolence following his death in March 1963 (March - April 1963) and other miscellaneous papers relating to his civilian life.
History note
Cataloguer AMB
History note
Catalogue date 2003-04