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Allied Military Mission administrative orders, office orders and operational orders during resistance operations in West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, including papers relating to the official joint GHQ agreement between British Military Mission, Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) and Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS), 5 Aug 1943; letter from Allied Military Mission to Greek partisan groups concerning the wireless-telegraphy frequencies to be used in forthcoming operations; Allied Military Mission conference notes, dated 26 Jun 1944, concerning Allied and ELAS operations during Operation NOAH'S ARK; transcribed wireless messages from Lt Col Nicholas Geoffery Lemprière Hammond, Allied Military Mission General Headquarters, Pertouli, to sub-area commanders, dated 3 Jul 1944-20 Aug 1944, relating to declining relations between the Allied Military Mission and ELAS; memorandum from Lt Col Sir Thomas Gordon Devitt, 2nd Bt, Officer Commanding Raiding Support Regiment (RSR), concerning the state of discipline and morale within the regiment, 11 Aug 1944; administrative instructions from Lt Col Arthur Edmonds, Officer Commanding Area 1, Allied Military Mission, to sub-area headquarters. 21 items.

Allied Military Mission situation reports, West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, notably including report by Sgt S Peter Kite on the battle at Perikopi, 18-19 Apr 1944 and the 'Independent Macedonians' plans to found an autonomous Macedonian Soviet Republic; weekly reports by Capt A G Wrigley, Officer Commanding Siniatsikon sub-area, codenamed RAIDER, to Lt Col Arthur Edmonds, Officer Commanding Area 1, detailing operations in the Kostoria-Siniastsikon region 4 Apr-3 May 1944; memorandum from HQ Vermion, codenamed MORTLAKE, to area commanders, dated 13 Jun 1944 regarding co-operation with Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) forces; summary of interim operations in ELAS areas of control, dated 16 Jul 1944; Allied Military Mission Headquarters situation reports, 30 Aug-21 Oct 1944, detailing Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from the peninsula and power quarrels between ELAS and Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES). 15 items.

Operational correspondence to and from Allied Military Mission Headquarters, West Macedonia, Greece, including correspondence to Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div Headquarters from Lt Col Arthur Edmonds, Officer Commanding Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, relating to the command of Greek troops by General Headquarters, Middle East, Cairo, Egypt, the establishment of areas under the command of ELAS, and Allied arbitration of fighting between Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES), Ethniki Kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis (EKKA) and ELAS; situation reports, 7 Apr-22 May 1944, from Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Officer Commanding Vitsi sub-area, codenamed FERTILISER A; semi-official correspondence to Lt Col Arthur Edmonds from Lt Col Nicholas Geoffery Lemprière Hammond, Allied Military Mission General Headquarters, Pertouli; situation report to Lt Col Arthur Edmonds from Capt Albert H 'Bertie' Lingen detailing situation at the Grevena aerodrome, 21 Jul 1944; letter from Gen Kalabalikis, General Officer Commanding ELAS 9 Div, to Allied Military Mission, 26 Sep 1944, concerning the passage of Allied officers and soldiers through zones occupied by ELAS or German troops. 11 items.

Diaries and notebooks kept by Maj Ronald R Prentice and Capt H Arthur Wickstead during Special Operations Executive (SOE) operations in West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, including diary kept by Wickstead describing Allied Military Mission reconnaissance mission in Northern Greece and its attempt to seek support from surrounding Greek villages, 25 Mar-30 Apr 1944; Prentice's notebook describing situation at Vitsi, Vermion and Kozani, Sep 1944. 4 items.

Maj Ronald R Prentice's field book while stationed at General Headquarters, Middle East Command, Cairo, Egypt, 1942, containing notes describing the Allied military situation in Iraq, Jerusalem and Haifa, Palestine, and notes relating to Long Range Desert Group operations in the Western Desert, April 1942, including mention of the work of 'Count' László Almásy (Laszlo Almasy) as a German guide during Operation SALAAM, the German espionage mission from Libya through Allied lines, 1942. 1 item.

Official German-language occupation newspapers, including three editions of the German Army official newspaper, Wacht im Südosten, with articles relating to the Allied invasion, Jun 1944, the military situation in Salonika one year after the capitulation of the Italians, Sep 1944 and the communist coup in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sep 1944; two editions of the German newspaper Donau Zeitung, with articles detailing the political and military situation in Yugoslavia, Montenegro and Bulgaria, 3 Jun-24 Aug 1944; edition of the German Panzer Army official publication, Armee-Zeitung, [May] 1944. 6 items.

Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, in Greek, including edition of Macedonia, with front-page cartoon mocking Damaskinos, Archbishop of Athens and Greece, as Greek regent in waiting, 9 Sep 1945; edition of Laike Phone, featuring translated extract from speech of General Secretary of the Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE), Nikos Zakhariadhis, 29 Dec 1945; edition of To Phos, featuring articles criticising the British for the outbreak of the Greek Civil War, 19 Mar 1946; typescript pamphlet entitled Ethniki Antistasis 1940-1944 (Athens, 1964) by former Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) Gen E G Kalabalikis; edition of Apogenmatini, 11 Jan 1980, and edition of Elephtherotepia, 28 Jan 1980, featuring articles on the Afghan resistance during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; edition of Kathmarini, featuring a reprint of 8 Mar 1941 apologia to Adolf Hitler which claimed that Greece had no alternative but to ally itself with Great Britain during World War Two, 16-17 Sep 1944. 16 items.

Greek political newspapers, party leaflets and propaganda, in Greek, 1941-1946, including edition of Kathmarini, featuring a front page apologia to Adolf Hitler, which claimed that Greece had no alternative but to ally itself with Great Britain, 8 Mar 1941; edition of Elliniki Panelladiki Organosi Neolaias (EPON) newspaper Anti Fascistas listing 14 EPON members recently massacred by Panellinios Apeleftherotili Organosis (PAO) and featuring an article on the foundation of the Epiropi Ethniki Apeleftherosis (EEA), 22 Mar 1944; three editions of Nea Evropa featuring virulent anti-Allied propaganda; edition of Phone ton Ellinon featuring anti-Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) and anti-Allied articles, branding German occupation forces the 'New Spartans', Jul 1944; three Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE) Laike Phone editions featuring reports about the alleged PAO allegiance to Germany, the alleged alliance between the PAO and the Bulgarian Army and the arrival of Maj Gen Arthur Wilmot Wadeson Holworthy, late General Officer Commanding 4 (Indian) Div, assigned to persuade Greek villagers armed by the German occupation to lay down their arms; five editions of Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metropo (EAM) newspaper Elephtheria, featuring articles relating to the alleged ELAS liberation of East Macedonia and West Thrace, alleged German-PAO massacres in Edessa and Yiannitsa in which 400 civilians were killed, British aid for the Greek currency and a letter to Maj Gen Holworthy concerning alleged British abuses against Greek civilians in Athens, 27 Sep-12 Dec 1944; edition of EAM newspaper, Phos, featuring articles accusing Great Britain of causing the civil unrest in Greece and questioning the involvement of Sir Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron of Wembley, as mediator, 30 Jan 1945; edition of Communist newspaper Retsospotses, featuring articles on the 11th Congress of the Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE) and Lt Gen Ronald MacKenzie Scobie's return to Great Britain, 24 Apr 1945; edition of Pravda, 3 Jan 1946. 17 items.

Edition of French language Hellenic studies journal La Semaine Egyptienne, including a special commemorative section to the Greek poet Constantin Cavafy, pseudonym of Konstantinos Petrou Kavaphes, 25 Apr 1929; edition of La Semaine Egyptienne, including a message from Greek president Georgis Papandreou, 3 Dec 1944, Christmas 1944. 2 items.

Operational correspondence from sub-area commanders to Area 1 Headquarters, West Macedonia, Greece, under the command of Maj Ronald R Prentice and Capt H Arthur Wickstead, 1944, notably including situation report from Capt Albert H 'Bertie' Lingen, Officer Commanding sub-area KINBRACE, the landing-ground at Grevena, detailing his severe supply shortages. 3 items.

Maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission area of operation in northern Greece, 1943-1944, including 1:100,000 map of Florina-Ptolemaïs, July 1933; 1:100,000 map of Edessa-Verria, Mar 1941; 1:100,000 map of Konitsa-Nestorion, Apr 1943; [1:500,000] map of Greece; 1:250,000 map of Thessaloniki, Aug 1943; 1:100,000 map of Kastoria-Grevena; photograph of Mount Olympus. 7 items.

Allied Military Mission interrogation papers for operations in West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, including interrogation book detailing information obtained from captured or deserted German and Italian soldiers and procedure notes made during the interrogation of Acting Corporal Franz Brandl, German 1 Mountain Div, 14 Oct 1944. 2 items

Official correspondence between Maj Ronald R Prentice, General Officer Commanding, Area 1, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, Greece, and members of the Allied Military Mission, including letters to Prentice from Capt Max Backhouse, 25-30 Jan 1944, requesting escorts for Allied reconnaissance missions to Nestoria; general situation report to Prentice from Capt H Arthur Wickstead, 10 Oct 1944; unofficial despatch sent to Prentice from US Capt Ronald J Darr, General Officer Commanding, US Operational Group 7, detailing the actions of soldier Arthur Agoritsas during an ambush near Agras, 9 Oct 1944; correspondence to Prentice from Capt David S Chapman, Royal Army Medical Corps, relating to the medical situation in the Pontokomi region and requests for medical supplies, 23 Sep-11 Oct 1944; letters to Prentice from E Wenger, International Red Cross, Edessa, requesting safe passage of Red Cross vehicles travelling from Athens to Thessoloniki via Kozani and relating to a proposed meeting between Prentice and German Colonel Ritter von Eberling to discuss the terms of German withdrawals from Greece, 25 Sep-2 Oct 1944; letter to Prentice from Capt Geoffrey Chandler relating to requests for a relief mission to Naoussa, 11 Oct 1944; situation reports from Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Vitsi sub-area commander, 11 Apr-16 Nov 1944; Prentice's withdrawal orders, 4-5 Dec 1944. 19 items.

Official correspondence to and from Capt H Arthur Wickstead, Officer Commanding Signals, Allied Military Mission, Area 1, West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944, notably including letter to Wickstead from Maj Ronald R Prentice relating to the situation at Vermion, 12 Oct 1944; situation reports to Wickstead from Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Officer Commanding Vitsi sub-area, codenamed FERTILISER A, relating to events during Operation NOAH'S ARK, the 'Gotsi Affair', in which Bulgarian-speaking 2 Bn, 28 Regt, ELAS 9 Div, led by Gotsi Deltsif, joined Slav-Macedonian partisans to fight against Greek-ELAS soldiers in Vitsi area, Oct 1944, the interrogation of Acting Corporal Franz Brandl, German 1 Mountain Div, 14 Oct 1944, and proposed joint operations between Allied Military Mission forces and the Long Range Desert Group at Florina, 16 Oct 1944. 4 items.

Official German documents, in German and Greek, 1943-1944, including captured and translated German operational orders; German propaganda and personal letters from German soldiers to family members. File includes German police poster requesting assistance identifying deceased Greek civilians; propaganda leaflets, including British message dropped on occupied Italian forces, 11 Aug 1943, and German leaflet distributed to Greek partisan forces calling for capitulation; German accounts ledger detailing commodities purchased from the local population, 24 Oct-30 Dec 1943; correspondence to the mayor of Kozani from German occupation forces relating to required foodstuffs, animals, accommodation and inspections of transport; captured and translated German message from General of the Air Force Fink, dated 21 May 1944, concerning allegiances of Greek partisan and national organisations; captured German 22 Mountain Corps report, dated 10 Aug 1944, concerning the political, military, economic and partisan situation in West Macedonia, the composition of Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) and Communist Albanian units, relations between the Allied Military Mission and the Greek partisan forces and suspected Allied order of battle; personal letters from German soldiers in Greece to relatives. 17 items.

Operations reports by Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Officer Commanding Vitsi sub-area, codenamed FERTILISER A, to Headquarters, Area 1, West Macedonia, Greece concerning liaison with Raiding Support Regiment (RSR) troops and Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) partisans, the limits of Greek partisan (andarte) control, political relations with Serbian and Macedonian partisans and the planning for Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from the peninsula. File includes operations report detailing sabotage targets selected during the German withdrawal from Greece; record of operations during the German withdrawal from the Vitsi-Florina area, 4 Sep-31 Oct 1944, detailing combined operations with ELAS and the Raiding Support Regiment; report describing general state of conditions at Vitsi sub-area, including mention of fierce anti-royalist propaganda initiated by Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (EAM) and the subsequent ELAS executions, security measures undertaken by the sub-area and estimated numbers of partisans in the sub-area. 5 items.

Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) papers, in Greek, relating to the conduct of Greek resistance operations and liaison missions between ELAS 9 Div, ELAS Macedonian Corps and the Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944. File includes papers relating to the 'National Bands Agreement', July 1943; undated report from the Bureau Italien Liaison concerning reports of soldiers from the 14th Regt (Pinerolo) Div collaborating with ELAS partisans in Mar 1943; ELAS information bulletin, dated 11 Jan-24 Jan 1944, written by Col Stephanos Sarafis detailing the military situation in Northern and Southern Greece, Thrace and East Macedonia, locations of German units and equipment and estimates of forthcoming German operations; letter from ELAS 9 Div Headquarters, dated 3 Apr 1944, to Allied Military Mission claiming that Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) had violated the 29 Feb 1944 'Plaka Agreement' to combine forces; ELAS 9 Div letter of complaint, dated 4 Apr 1944, to the Allied Military Mission detailing EDES assaults on ELAS positions; ELAS memorandum, dated 1 Jun 1944, regarding the infiltration of Macedonian villages by Slav-speaking Komitatzethes (Komitaji) units; ELAS invitation, dated 8 Jun 1944, to the Allied Military Mission to attend a forthcoming dinner to honour visiting Soviet delegation; ELAS 9 Div official order, dated 26 Jun 1944, detailing British assignments in the Kozani-Kastoria region; ELAS newsletters concerning the activities of their political wing, Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (EAM), 10-18 Jul 1944; ELAS 9 Div letter to Allied Military Mission detailing the German withdrawals towards Konitsa and Kastorias and reported casualties among partisans and civilians in the region, 14 Jul 1944; proclamation to the people of Greece calling for the destruction of alleged German collaborative forces within Panellinios Apeleftherotili Organosis (PAO) and Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES); ELAS order, dated 27 Aug 1944, for 2 Bn, 53 Regt, co-ordinated movement with the British Raiding Support Regiment (RSR) to Vermion; ELAS 9 Div document, dated 11 Sep 1944, warning Greek civilians against collaboration with pro-German factions such as Ellinikos Ethinikos Stratos (EES); ELAS 9 Div list of Allied British and American officers dated 21 Sep 1944. 45 items.