Item LAYCOCK 2/5 - Training notes, instructions, orders and lectures, Nov 1940 - Jan 1942, on subjects including demolition, sabotage, ciphers and disposal of casualties

Training notes and memoranda including instructions for landing exercises; operation orders for training exercises for 4 Special Service Bn on the Isle of Arran, Scotland, 12 Dec 1940 and at Brodick, Scotland, 22 Dec 1940 and 4 Jan 1941; programme of lectures on demolition and sabotage for 8 Commando and training instructions for 8 Commando; notes on training issued to commanders of LAYFORCE by Brig Joseph Charles Haydon, Commanding Officer Special Service Brigade, immediately prior to their departure for the Middle East; memoranda on ciphers, disposal of casualties and anti gas training; memorandum on training parachutists in the Middle East by Capt (Archibald) David Stirling and Bde training instructions No 1, 30 Mar 1941 and Commando training orders, 10 Jan 1942. 1 file