Description
Object description
Papers relating to his service with the Special Operations Executive, 1941 – 1945 comprising: a pocket diary with entries for 8 May and 19 July – 31 December 1943 kept while he was serving in England (May – July), at MO4 GHQ MEF in Cairo (25 July – 16 August), then as a British Liaison Officer in the Zagoria region of Northern Greece, after he had been parachuted into the Epirus area, with useful details about conditions both for civilians and for himself, fellow members of SOE and Greek guerrillas, references to supply drops, the interrogation of Italian soldiers after the Armistice (mid September), interaction with local people, relations between the two Greek resistance groups ELAS and EDES and going into hiding to avoid being discovered by German forces; a Greek pocket diary with names and addresses and entries for 1 January – 5 June and occasional notes for 6 June – 8 December 1944 covering how he was accidentally shot by an ELAS guerrilla (1 January) and his subsequent experiences receiving medical treatment and still trying to fulfil his liaison duties until he was well enough to be evacuated by Landing Craft to Monopoli in Italy in late April, further treatment there and his return to the United Kingdom, where he continued to receive medical attention; photocopies (25pp) of his service records including the citation for his MC and his SOE file with his detailed report on ELAS and EDES (September 1943 – February 1944), the problems of disseminating news events and the medical treatment of members of the resistance in the Zagoria area, also a modern map of the region,17 portrait photographs of him in uniform, 3 photographs of his family and further photographs of him and others in Greece (16 items, 1943 – 1944).
Content description
Papers relating to his service with the Special Operations Executive, 1941 – 1945 comprising: a pocket diary with entries for 8 May and 19 July – 31 December 1943 kept while he was serving in England (May – July), at MO4 GHQ MEF in Cairo (25 July – 16 August), then as a British Liaison Officer in the Zagoria region of Northern Greece, after he had been parachuted into the Epirus area, with useful details about conditions both for civilians and for himself, fellow members of SOE and Greek guerrillas, references to supply drops, the interrogation of Italian soldiers after the Armistice (mid September), interaction with local people, relations between the two Greek resistance groups ELAS and EDES and going into hiding to avoid being discovered by German forces; a Greek pocket diary with names and addresses and entries for 1 January – 5 June and occasional notes for 6 June – 8 December 1944 covering how he was accidentally shot by an ELAS guerrilla (1 January) and his subsequent experiences receiving medical treatment and still trying to fulfil his liaison duties until he was well enough to be evacuated by Landing Craft to Monopoli in Italy in late April, further treatment there and his return to the United Kingdom, where he continued to receive medical attention; photocopies (25pp) of his service records including the citation for his MC and his SOE file with his detailed report on ELAS and EDES (September 1943 – February 1944), the problems of disseminating news events and the medical treatment of members of the resistance in the Zagoria area, also a modern map of the region,17 portrait photographs of him in uniform, 3 photographs of his family and further photographs of him and others in Greece (16 items, 1943 – 1944).
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