Key Information
Reference code
ISMAY 2/3/271
Title
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten to Ismay, Mar 1951, forwarding correspondence about planned operations in the Bay of Bengal, 1944
Date(s)
- 1951 Jan 19 Mar 22 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
6pp
Scope and content
Covering letter from AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, to Ismay regarding information required for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs and forwarding a letter from Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall to Ismay (2/3/271) referring to BUCANEER, a plan for an operation (not carried out) against the Nicobar and Andamans Islands, Bay of Bengal; covering letter from Mountbatten to Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall and letter from him to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill relating to BUCANEER and quoting Maj Gen Orde Charles Wingate's opinion. Signed typescript 6pp