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Captured German documents including divisional daily order concerning the psychological state of German occupation troops, 4 Apr 1944; identification book of an Armenian Legionier serving in the German Army; manuscript map of German 9 Battery placement at Florina-Ptolemaïs; list of German 1 Mountain Div documents captured up to 1 Jun 1944. 4 items.

Correspondence, in Greek, between Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, commander Vitsi sub-area, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, Greece, and Greek partisan supporters 'Alekos' and 'Dinos', including reports to Evans relating to German movements around Florina-Kozani; Gestapo arrests of alleged Greek and Bulgarian spies; and, Allied air raids on German positions at Florina and Armenokhori. File also contains three booklets of transcribed messages, primarily in French, from 'Alekos' and 'Dinos', relating mainly to events during Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from Greece, 1944. 24 items.

Correspondence between Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans and allied Greek, British and American personnel, notably including correspondence between Evans and Capt John C Collins, Allied Liaison Officer, Raiding Support Regiment, West Macedonia, 15 Jan 1944-17 Oct 1944; letter from Maj Kenneth Farish Scott, Royal Engineers, West Macedonia, detailing demolition assembly and detonation, instructions for use of explosives and suggestions on ambushing German positions, 22 Jun 1944; letters from Lt Alan Chalkley, Raiding Support Regiment, to Evans concerning ambush operations on the Albanian frontier, 9-27 Sep 1944; letters from Sgt S Peter Kite, relating to allied Greek and British raids in support of Raiding Support Regiment operations and relations with Ethniko Apeleftherotikos Metopo (EAM), 10-24 Sep 1944; report sent by Capt Albert 'Bertie' Tozer, Royal Artillery, relating to events at Florina, 10-16 Oct 1944; reports from Lt Douglas Dutton relating to German and Armenian units en route to Florina, 22 Sep-2 Oct 1944. 34 items.

Correspondence between Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, commanding sub-area Vitsi, and Headquarters, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia. Papers include message from Lt Col Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Officer Commanding Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, to Evans concerning Polish recruits to Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) units, 26 Oct 1943; letters from Maj Ronald R Prentice, Officer Commanding Area 1, relating to proposed attacks on Kastoria in April 1944, the planning of interim operations for Operation NOAH'S ARK, and the need to increase the fighting efficiency of Greek partisans in the Vitsi sub-area, 26 Mar-23 Jun 1944; letter from Capt H Arthur Wickstead, Officer Commanding Signals, Area 1, to Evans regarding the signals plan once German troops have withdrawn from West Macedonia, codenamed RANKIN, 4 Oct 1944; letter from Wickstead to Prentice and Evans regarding the surrender of all German forces in Greece, 9 Oct 1944. 14 items.

Two booklets of deciphered signals messages between Vitsi sub-area Headquarters, codenamed FERTILISER, and Area 1 Headquarters, Allied Military Mission, Pendalophos, codenamed BOODLE; between sub-area Vitsi to General Headquarters Middle East, Cairo, Egypt ; and, between Vitsi sub-area and Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 'Arrianos' battalion. Messages relate to the German situation in the Balkans and Soviet Army advances westward; Allied Military Mission involvement in the ELAS execution of anti-ELAS civilians; and, Allied Military Mission orders condemning sub-area involvement in indigenous political movements. 2 items.

Loose pages of ciphered and deciphered signals messages between Vitsi sub-area Headquarters, codenamed FERTILISER, and Area 1 Headquarters, Allied Military Mission, Pendalophos (Pentalophon), codenamed BOODLE, including situation reports relating to Operation NOAH'S ARK. 14 items.

Notebook of deciphered signals messages between Vitsi sub-area Headquarters, codenamed FERTILISER, and Area 1 Headquarters, Allied Military Mission, Pendalophos [Pentalophon], codenamed BOODLE, concerning the movement of Yugoslavian partisan forces under the command of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito); increased Komitatzethes (Komitaji) activity in West Macedonia; nascent Serb, Macedonian and Bulgarian ethnic rivalry in West Macedonia. Booklet also contains plans for the demolition of railway bridges and the railway line in the Kleidhi Pass. 1 item.

Diary detailing Lt Patrick Hutchinson Evans's time at Pendalophos (Pentalophon) and Grevena, West Macedonia, including mention of his role as an instructor at the Allied Military Mission Commando School at Pendalophos [Pentalophon]; Allied Military Mission relations with Gen Karayiannis, General Officer Commanding, Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div, and liaison missions with Capt [later Maj] Ronald R Prentice. 1 item

Diary detailing the role of Lt Patrick Hutchinson Evans during Special Operations Executive (SOE) training at Haifa, Palestine, and during commando and intelligence training at General Headquarters, Middle East, Cairo, Egypt. 1 item.

Diary of events by Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, commander sub-area Vitsi, West Macedonia, Greece, and demolition officer Sgt S Peter Kite, detailing operations during Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from Greece, 1944. 1 item.

Diary detailing daily life at Headquarters, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, Greece, at Pendalophos (Pentalophon), including a brief history of the region, Greek vocabulary tables, cultural observations and mention of Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) and Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) partisan power quarrels. 1 item.

Diary of events during Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from the peninsula, including mention of liaison operations with 3 Bn, 28 Regt and 2 Bn, 53 Regt, Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div; Raiding Support Regiment operations at Orlu; and, the decision to attack the 'Gotsi detachment', in which Bulgarian-speaking soldiers from 2 Bn, 28 Regt, led by Gotsi Deltsif, joined Slav-Macedonian and Yugoslavian partisans to fight against Greek ELAS soldiers in the Vitsi area. 1 item.

Rough draft of an airfield report sent by Lt Patrick Hutchinson Evans to Lt Col Arthur Edmonds, General Officer Commanding Area 1, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, concerning estimated labour and costs required for a landing strip at Grevena-Mavronaei. 1 item.

Manuscript diaries, detailing his SOE training in Haifa, Palestine, Cairo, Egypt, his service as an instructor at the Allied Military Mission Commando School at Pendalophos, British relations with allied Greek partisan units, and SOE harassment and demolition activity prior to and during the German withdrawal from the Greek peninsula, 1943-1944; reports, mainly compiled byEvans as commander of the Vitsi sub-area, relating to intelligence, reconnaissance and demolition missions alongside Greek Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) units, the pro-German infiltration of West Macedonia, and the conduct of Operation NOAH'S ARK; papers relating to SOE commando missions, including notes detailing weapons, ammunition and supplies used; lists of alliedPolish, Czech and French participants in the Allied Military Mission, autumn 1943; papers relating to the construction of the SOE airfield at Grevena, 1944; list compiled by Evans concerning hostile Armenian, Italian, German and Greek forces, 1944; notes detailing the nominal roll of partisan forces in the Vitsi sub-area, 1944; papers relating to SOE and ELAS border assaults into Yugoslavia and Albania, 1944; papers detailing the splintering of relations between British and Greek forces in Greece, 1944; booklets of deciphered signals messages received and issued by the Vitsi sub-area station, relating to the movement of German forces and Yugoslavian partisans, under the command of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito), and the execution of Operation NOAH'S ARK, 1944; correspondence with Lt ColArthur Edmonds, Officer Commanding Area 1, West Macedonia, Lt Col Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Officer Commanding Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, and allied British, American and Greek soldiers, 1944; policy and procedure papers, including his official secrecy declaration, 1944; papers relating to SOE technical training, finances and supplies; papers, in Greek, relating to combined operations between the Allied Military Mission and ELAS 9 Div, including command and control agreements and messages from Gen Karayannis, commander ELAS 9 Div, relating to German movements in the Vitsi sub-area; official report, in Greek, from theGreek government, detailing the history of Greek partisan forces in Greece, 1940-1944; Greek propaganda leaflets and newspapers relating to Greek partisan activity in West Macedonia, and Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) and ELAS power struggles, 1944; German divisional daily order concerning the psychological state of German occupation troops; personal correspondence from German 1 Mountain Div soldiers; papers relating to the proposed publication of an account of Evans's career in the SOE; papers relating to the publication of Hammond's article, 'The Allied Military Mission in Northwest Macedonia', Balkan Studies (Volume 32), 1993.

German and Allied propaganda leaflets, labels and brochures, including letter from an alleged German soldier who claimed that the war in the Balkans was a German defeat. 23 items