Description
Physical description
tie
Khaki artificial silk neck tie
Label
British Army officer's neck tie, worn by Major Aonghais (Angus) Fyffe.
Fyffe served as an NCO with 49 FSS, based in the Scottish Highlands 1940-41. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1941 for SOE duties, he served with the Spanish Section until being assigned as Head of Security for SOE's No 6 Workshop School at Inverlair, where agents who were partially trained and deemed as unfit for operational tasks were held. In 1942 he was appionted Chief Security Officer for SOE in Scotland, and in 1944 joined the Security Section at HQ SOE, Baker Street. From 1945-46 Fyffe was sent to Germany as an Intelligence Officer with ME 42, the SOE German Mission, where he was engaged in tracing the fate of missing SOE agents and in assessing the impact of SOE operations in Germany.
History note
British Army officer's neck tie, worn by Major Aonghais (Angus) Fyffe.
Fyffe served as an NCO with 49 FSS, based in the Scottish Highlands 1940-41. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1941 for SOE duties, he served with the Spanish Section until being assigned as Head of Security for SOE's No 6 Workshop School at Inverlair, where agents who were partially trained and deemed as unfit for operational tasks were held. In 1942 he was appionted Chief Security Officer for SOE in Scotland, and in 1944 joined the Security Section at HQ SOE, Baker Street. From 1945-46 Fyffe was sent to Germany as an Intelligence Officer with ME 42, the SOE German Mission, where he was engaged in tracing the fate of missing SOE agents and in assessing the impact of SOE operations in Germany.
Printed in silver ink onto black textile label (sewn to inside of tie)
TOOTAL TIE
STANDARD QUALITY
PATENTED FINISHED
WASH AS SILK
MADE IN ENGLAND