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Object description
Photocopied ts text (17pp) of a speech delivered by him in September 2000 in which he recalls his service as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve attached to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), mentioning briefly his training at HMS COLLINGWOOD near Fareham, Hampshire, service in HMS FLEETWOOD on convoy escort duties in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, officer training at HMS KING ALFRED where he was pronounced colour-blind and subsequently recruited into the SOE (June 1943), training at Arisaig, Scotland and Helford, Cornwall and service in Algeria (September 1943 onwards) and Monopoli near Bari, Italy (December 1943 onwards) with details of operations by No 1 Special Force naval section in which he took part and of his participation in the SOE mission CLARION to the Piedmont Mountains south of Turin (November - December 1944) where he instructed Communist partisans prior to his betrayal and capture, his transportation from prison to prison until being finally interned in a naval prisoner of war camp near Bremen. Together with: an original silk map of northern Italy; photocopies of three wartime photographs of him, 'Major Temple' (Major Neville Darewski) and the village of Frabosa; photocopies of four photographs taken when he revisited the Mondari area in 1996; photocopies of two articles about the reunion (1p each in Italian); a map showing the area where he was dropped; correspondence between him, an Italian partisan whom he revisited in 1996, and the SOE historian Christopher Woods; and photocopies of the agreement signed by his wife Marjorie Clark (née Lewis) on joining the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in May 1943 and of the rates of pay for FANY personnel.
Content description
Photocopied ts text (17pp) of a speech delivered by him in September 2000 in which he recalls his service as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve attached to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), mentioning briefly his training at HMS COLLINGWOOD near Fareham, Hampshire, service in HMS FLEETWOOD on convoy escort duties in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, officer training at HMS KING ALFRED where he was pronounced colour-blind and subsequently recruited into the SOE (June 1943), training at Arisaig, Scotland and Helford, Cornwall and service in Algeria (September 1943 onwards) and Monopoli near Bari, Italy (December 1943 onwards) with details of operations by No 1 Special Force naval section in which he took part and of his participation in the SOE mission CLARION to the Piedmont Mountains south of Turin (November - December 1944) where he instructed Communist partisans prior to his betrayal and capture, his transportation from prison to prison until being finally interned in a naval prisoner of war camp near Bremen. Together with: an original silk map of northern Italy; photocopies of three wartime photographs of him, 'Major Temple' (Major Neville Darewski) and the village of Frabosa; photocopies of four photographs taken when he revisited the Mondari area in 1996; photocopies of two articles about the reunion (1p each in Italian); a map showing the area where he was dropped; correspondence between him, an Italian partisan whom he revisited in 1996, and the SOE historian Christopher Woods; and photocopies of the agreement signed by his wife Marjorie Clark (née Lewis) on joining the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in May 1943 and of the rates of pay for FANY personnel.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2005-07