Description
Physical description
blouse
khaki serge battledress blouse, has concealed buttons & two pleated breast pockets. To the shoulder straps are sewn two cloth embroidered rank 'Crowns' on green backing, indicating rank of Major. To both upper sleeves are sewn green horizontal Branch of Service stripes.
Label
Standard British Army officer's Battledress blouse, 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
Standard British Army officer's Battledress blouse, 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 black ink to white linen label that is sewn to inside of right breast panel.
BATTLEDRESS
Blouses, Serge
Size No. 6
Height
5ft. 5ins. to 5ft. ? ins.
Breast - 33 to 39ins.
Waist - 33 to 34ins.
TODD & Co. Ltd.
BRISTOL
1940