Key Information
Reference code
ISMAY 4/24/123
Title
Letter from Admiral Lord Mountbatten to Ismay, Sep 1964, on subjects including Henry Hodson and incidents of World War Two, with related notes
Date(s)
- 1964 Jul 27 - Sep 1 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5pp
Scope and content
Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to the decision by Henry Vincent Hodson to visit Vapal (Vappala) Pangunni Menon and a request for clarification the circumstances surrounding his appointment as Director of Combined Operations in 1942. With copy of letter from Mountbatten to Clementine Churchill, Lady Churchill and note on an incident in Jun 1941; copy of letter from Lady Churchill informing him that Churchill was unable to remember the incident. Typescript, 5pp