Description
Object description
Extensive collection of papers relating to his military career and personal life, comprising: 5 ms appointments diaries covering the years 1941 - 1945; an interesting series of files of war time and post-war correspondence and papers relating to his Army career, including his involvement with the British Military Mission to the Sudetenland, October 1938; the British Military Mission to Poland, September 1939; his command of 5 Independent Companies (latterly the Commandos) under the overall command of Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck in the Bodo-Mo area during the Norwegian campaign of 1940, with particular reference to the role of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards during the action; his service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in their Baker Street HQ as Director of Operations 1940 - 1942, Deputy for Operations 1942 - 1943 and Head of SOE 1943 - 1945; the co-ordination of SOE operations in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland 1940-1945 and Operation POSTMASTER, a raid on the island of Fernando Po to seize Axis shipping in 1942; transcripts of post-war lectures, 1946 - 1973, regarding the development and history of SOE; papers relating to his involvement with the Bilderberg Group, an informal discussion group interested in promoting European unity 1950s - 1970s, and other miscellaneous papers.
Content description
Extensive collection of papers relating to his military career and personal life, comprising: 5 ms appointments diaries covering the years 1941 - 1945; an interesting series of files of war time and post-war correspondence and papers relating to his Army career, including his involvement with the British Military Mission to the Sudetenland, October 1938; the British Military Mission to Poland, September 1939; his command of 5 Independent Companies (latterly the Commandos) under the overall command of Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck in the Bodo-Mo area during the Norwegian campaign of 1940, with particular reference to the role of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards during the action; his service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in their Baker Street HQ as Director of Operations 1940 - 1942, Deputy for Operations 1942 - 1943 and Head of SOE 1943 - 1945; the co-ordination of SOE operations in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland 1940-1945 and Operation POSTMASTER, a raid on the island of Fernando Po to seize Axis shipping in 1942; transcripts of post-war lectures, 1946 - 1973, regarding the development and history of SOE; papers relating to his involvement with the Bilderberg Group, an informal discussion group interested in promoting European unity 1950s - 1970s, and other miscellaneous papers.
History note
Cataloguer AMB
History note
Catalogue date 2003-03-06
