Private Papers of Major R L A Vince

Ts excerpt from memoir (21pp) with very few dates of his service with the Signals Section Special Operations Executive (SOE) (c.1940 - c.1945), covering his recollections as a civilian of the end of the 'phoney war' (1940) and his feelings on evacuating his daughter to the US (1940), service with the Local Defence Volunteers at Tooting, the bomb damage to his London offices, his call-up and posting to the Royal Signals, his initial impressions of army life and training at the Special Operators Training Battalion, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, his duties as an operator, his NCO training course at Harrogate, Yorkshire, his interview at Baker Street and acceptance into SOE, his posting to signals at Station IX at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, in particular to the Supplies Section, the use of his pre-war telecommunications experience and mission to USA to investigate special signals equipment there, his voyage in the QUEEN ELIZABETH to New York and the success of his work in the British Security Co-ordination Office, and his return to the UK and his duties at Station IX as acting CO of the Signals Sections; providing good anecdotal notes on his service and relationship with other SOE personnel. Also with the memoir are two photographs of him in uniform, one with his daughter.

Ts excerpt from memoir (21pp) with very few dates of his service with the Signals Section Special Operations Executive (SOE) (c.1940 - c.1945), covering his recollections as a civilian of the end of the 'phoney war' (1940) and his feelings on evacuating his daughter to the US (1940), service with the Local Defence Volunteers at Tooting, the bomb damage to his London offices, his call-up and posting to the Royal Signals, his initial impressions of army life and training at the Special Operators Training Battalion, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, his duties as an operator, his NCO training course at Harrogate, Yorkshire, his interview at Baker Street and acceptance into SOE, his posting to signals at Station IX at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, in particular to the Supplies Section, the use of his pre-war telecommunications experience and mission to USA to investigate special signals equipment there, his voyage in the QUEEN ELIZABETH to New York and the success of his work in the British Security Co-ordination Office, and his return to the UK and his duties at Station IX as acting CO of the Signals Sections; providing good anecdotal notes on his service and relationship with other SOE personnel. Also with the memoir are two photographs of him in uniform, one with his daughter.

Cataloguer PJB

Catalogue date 2008-01-15