Key Information
Reference code
DEAN 3/4/2
Title
Letters from Alfred Collier, British Military Mission to Moscow, 1941-1943
Date(s)
- 1941 Jul 7 - 1943 Feb 26 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Letters to Dean from Alfred Conrad Collier from Moscow, USSR where he was head of the Air Section of the British Military Mission to Moscow and from Delhi where he was Air Officer in charge of administration, Army Headquarters, mostly relating to his isolated position in Moscow due to the Russians reluctance to liase with the mission; Russian bureaucracy; treatment by the Russians, living conditions in Moscow, frustration at his inactivity and lack of involvement in World War Two and his intention to work in civil aviation after the war. 1 file