Description
Object description
Bound photocopy (108pp) of his official SOE file, 1941 - 1946, containing details of his service with the Special Operations Executive in France, North Africa and Corsica; reports on the TILLEUL Mission to South West France, July - September 1944, during which, as joint commander of the Mission, he helped coordinate French resistance groups and witnessed the liberation of the Correze Department; and papers, including letters from his widow, concerning his awards and decorations, both French and British, together with photocopies (24pp) of documents and photographs relating principally to his military service and to his death from injuries as the result of a motor accident, in August 1945, including a short biography which appeared in the Magdalen College Record 2002, copies of 3 photographs showing him in uniform, both French and British, and of a print showing his headstone in a Cardiff cemetery as well as a parish magazine from Cardiff dated September 1945 containing his obituary.
Content description
Bound photocopy (108pp) of his official SOE file, 1941 - 1946, containing details of his service with the Special Operations Executive in France, North Africa and Corsica; reports on the TILLEUL Mission to South West France, July - September 1944, during which, as joint commander of the Mission, he helped coordinate French resistance groups and witnessed the liberation of the Correze Department; and papers, including letters from his widow, concerning his awards and decorations, both French and British, together with photocopies (24pp) of documents and photographs relating principally to his military service and to his death from injuries as the result of a motor accident, in August 1945, including a short biography which appeared in the Magdalen College Record 2002, copies of 3 photographs showing him in uniform, both French and British, and of a print showing his headstone in a Cardiff cemetery as well as a parish magazine from Cardiff dated September 1945 containing his obituary.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2006-09