Description
Object description
Ts memoir in two volumes (160pp and 161pp, written c.1980) covering his service in Palestine with the Royal Berkshire Regiment (August 1934 - December 1939), as an intelligence officer at GHQ in the Middle East (June - December 1940), with Orde Wingate's 'Gideon Force' during the Abyssinian Campaign (December 1940 - June 1941), and with SOE's 'A' Force (N Section) to run MI9's Affairs and Escape Operations in the Middle East (September 1941 - May 1945), including good details of his experiences during the Arab Rebellion (1936 - 1939), his friendship with Orde Wingate and his experiences during the mission to Abyssinia (1941), his duties and role in the organisation of operations to rescue Allied servicemen from Greece, Turkey, Italy and other sites in the Middle East, with notes on personnel, case notes of escapes, the antagonism shown by the War Office, and his view as a civilian of the Cyprus Eoka Rebellion (1955 - 1959).
Content description
Ts memoir in two volumes (160pp and 161pp, written c.1980) covering his service in Palestine with the Royal Berkshire Regiment (August 1934 - December 1939), as an intelligence officer at GHQ in the Middle East (June - December 1940), with Orde Wingate's 'Gideon Force' during the Abyssinian Campaign (December 1940 - June 1941), and with SOE's 'A' Force (N Section) to run MI9's Affairs and Escape Operations in the Middle East (September 1941 - May 1945), including good details of his experiences during the Arab Rebellion (1936 - 1939), his friendship with Orde Wingate and his experiences during the mission to Abyssinia (1941), his duties and role in the organisation of operations to rescue Allied servicemen from Greece, Turkey, Italy and other sites in the Middle East, with notes on personnel, case notes of escapes, the antagonism shown by the War Office, and his view as a civilian of the Cyprus Eoka Rebellion (1955 - 1959).
History note
Cataloguer PJB
History note
Catalogue date 2007-11-16