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Object description
Ts report (10pp, 1944) with covering letter to his superior (1p, 1 November 1944) of his service with MI9 in the Aegean (September 1941 – September 1943) during which he organised and participated in the rescue of British and Greek servicemen left behind in Greece and the Aegean islands after their occupation by Axis forces and the capture of Samos and Leros (September 1943), for which he was awarded the Military Cross and Greek Distinguished Service Medal, in which he describes how after establishing himself at MI9 Smyrna station hundreds of Allied personnel were successfully rescued, the intelligence and sabotage work carried out among the islands and on the Greek mainland, the strategy behind the capture of Samos and Leros, which was implemented the day after the Italian armistice (8 September 1943), the diplomatic mission to neighbouring Ikaria (18 September 1943) to quell clashes between Greek inhabitants and Italian forces which resulted in him being shot and seriously wounded by a group of renegade Italians and handed over to the Germans, his hospitalisation in Belgrade (September 1943 – February 1944), his eventual transfer to Germany first to Stalag IIIA (Luckenwalde) (February 1944) then Oflag VIIIF (Marisch Trubau) and then Oflag 79 (Brunswick) before his repatriation to the UK (September 1944).
Content description
Ts report (10pp, 1944) with covering letter to his superior (1p, 1 November 1944) of his service with MI9 in the Aegean (September 1941 – September 1943) during which he organised and participated in the rescue of British and Greek servicemen left behind in Greece and the Aegean islands after their occupation by Axis forces and the capture of Samos and Leros (September 1943), for which he was awarded the Military Cross and Greek Distinguished Service Medal, in which he describes how after establishing himself at MI9 Smyrna station hundreds of Allied personnel were successfully rescued, the intelligence and sabotage work carried out among the islands and on the Greek mainland, the strategy behind the capture of Samos and Leros, which was implemented the day after the Italian armistice (8 September 1943), the diplomatic mission to neighbouring Ikaria (18 September 1943) to quell clashes between Greek inhabitants and Italian forces which resulted in him being shot and seriously wounded by a group of renegade Italians and handed over to the Germans, his hospitalisation in Belgrade (September 1943 – February 1944), his eventual transfer to Germany first to Stalag IIIA (Luckenwalde) (February 1944) then Oflag VIIIF (Marisch Trubau) and then Oflag 79 (Brunswick) before his repatriation to the UK (September 1944).
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