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Christopher Montague Woodhouse's military buttons, brooches and epaulettes. 19 items

Papers, 1942-1945, 1953 relating to Woodhouse's service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), as Second in Command, and later Commander, of the British (later Allied) Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in German occupied Greece(BMM/AMM) and the Iranian military coup, 1953. Includes correspondence between BMM and Middle East Command in Cairo comprising telegrams, operation orders, notes, minutes, reports and memoranda, Sep 1942-Jan 1945; other papers relating to BMM/AMM including Woodhouse's diaries with typescript transcript; nominal roll of Force 133 personnel, Aug 1944, articles and reports; papers on New Zealanders in BMM/AMM; maps; post-war papers on Greece including BBC Monitoring Service records, 1948-1952; publications, lectures, articles and broadcasts on Greece and the BMM/AMM by Woodhouse and others including Andreas Tzimas, EAM Central Committee member during Greek occupation and US Maj Gerald (Jerry) K Wines, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and correspondence related to research on BMM/AMM; papers concerning funerals, memorials and decorations relating to the BMM/AMM; artefacts from the BMM/AMM. Papers on the SIS/CIA plot to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mussadeq (Operations BOOT and AJAX), 1953. Draft translation of Panagiōtēs Kanellopoulos's History of the European Spirit from Greek to English and volumes of History of the European Spirit in the original Greek.

BBC Monitoring Service records comprising transcripts of radio broadcasts on Rebel Radio on the communist party of Greece, 18 Nov 1949 and on the resolution by the Political Bureau on the communist organisation of Athens, 7 Oct 1948. 2 items

BBC Monitoring Service records comprising transcripts of radio broadcasts on Free Greece radio including report by Dimitrious Vlantas to the seventh Plenum of KKE (Communist party of Greece) Central committee, Jun 1950; extracts from speeches by Zachariades, Jun 1950; extracts from KKE Political Bureau resolution of 26 Apr 1950; extracts from Zachariades' book New Situation, New Tasks, Dec 1949; broadcast on Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 28 Jun 1950; on Comrade Markos' letter to the KKE, 16 Jun 1949; on dismissal of Markos and KKE Central Committee statements, Feb 1949 and extracts from Zachariades' book The problems of leadership in the KKE, Jun-Sep 1952. 15 items

Typescript transcript of Christopher Montague Woodhouse's diaries on service with British/Allied Military Mission to Greece. 2 copies, [see 2/1 for originals]

Publications, lectures and broadcasts by Christopher Montague Woodhouse.

Papers relating to lecture for the Anglo-Hellenic league by Christopher Montague Woodhouse including lecture transcript, article in the Greek Gazette, Nov 1993 and correspondence. 8 items

Telegrams from Middle East Command to British Military Mission to Greece updating on position of Greek Government in Cairo. 2 items.

Report on 'The Crisis in Greece: a review of its causes' by Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers. 1 item

Report on 'SOE activities in Greece and the Islands of the Aegean Sea' (possibly by Christopher Montague Woodhouse) including sections on the nature of Special Operations Executive activities, results achieved, equipment, transportation and support required, administration and political difficulties. 1 item

Press cuttings on Greece and the British (later Allied) Military Mission to Greece including articles by Andreas Tzimas, EAM (National Liberation Front) Central Committee member during Greek occupation (code name Evmaios) in Pyrsas, 1 and 6, 1967, in Greek, annotated by Tzimas; article in the Greek Gazette on the fiftieth anniversary of battle of El Alamein 'Greek troops that fought in El Alamein', Oct 1992; three articles by Th. Bokou on Operation HARLING (British Military Mission to Greece); and article in Greek on the destruction of the Gorgopotamos Viaduct, 12 Dec 1964. 7 items

Papers relating to the setting up of Operation HARLING, (British Military Mission to Greece), including correspondence; minutes of the meeting proposing operation strategy, 4 Sep 1942; briefing papers and instructions. 5 items.

Papers relating to Lt Col Stanley Casson, liaison officer in Greece, including poems by Casson, account of his last days and death and copy of an article in the Daily Telegraph, Jul 1984, on the identification of body of Art Gavel, who died in the same air crash. 4 items

Papers relating to 50th anniversary celebrations in Athens, 28-29 Nov 1992, of the destruction of Gorgopotamos Viaduct, including: letters to Christopher Montague Woodhouse from British Embassy, Athens; programme of events; annotated draft of speech made by Woodhouse; message from Maj Len Wilmott; opening address from the president of Stromi; speech by Sir Brook Richards and speech by Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers (Greek and English) at the unveiling of memorial plaques in the Stromi cave where SOE parachutists first sheltered on arrival in Greece, 28 Nov 1992; copy of photograph of original party of British dropped into Greece, 1942; article in the Athenian 'Two British-Greek anniversaries', Jan 1993; article in Special Forces Club Newsletter, 'Veterans return to Greek hide-out cave', Spring 1993.; article in Anglo Hellenic Review 'Fiftieth anniversary of the Gorgopotamos achievement', Spring 1993. 13 items

Papers relating to 160 anniversary of the Battle of Navarino held at the Greek Embassy, London, 20 Oct 1987, including brochure with text by Christopher Montague Woodhouse, article in Greek by Woodhouse, 1981 and transcript of a speech given by the Greek Ambassador. 3 items

Papers relating to New Zealanders on British (later Allied) Military Mission to Greece, including: letters from Capt Arthur Edmonds; newspaper article for Anzac day on S J Madill, (the pilot who dropped Christopher Montague Woodhouse into Greece) and Capt Bill Jordan, wireless operator; letters from Madill; copies of papers on the Distinguished Service Order and death of Maj Donald John Stott; copy of Stott's memoirs of Greece; letter from Geoff Courtney, 9 Mar 1992; 'New Zealand in the Second World War: official history, special service in Greece' by M B McGlynn, (War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, 1953). 8 items