Item LAYCOCK 6/4 - Correspondence, 1941-1968, with Commando colleagues and with senior defence personnel

Robert Edward Laycock's correspondence, Jun 1941-Apr 1943, 1959, 1962 and 1967-1968 including letter from Laycock to Gen Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief Middle East, on the re-organising of Special Service Brigade, 17 Oct 1941; letter from Laycock to Maj Gen Charles Joseph Haydon, military advisor to Chief of Combined Operations, expressing concerns over a prospective reorganisation of Brigade headquarters, 29 Mar 1942; letter from Capt Evelyn Waugh to Laycock on functions of information officers in Special Service Brigade; letter on a report by Capt Raymond Douglas Coate making serious allegations against commanders of the aborted Operation MYRMIDON, 20 Apr 1942; letter from Laycock on reinforcements for Special Service Brigade, 22 May 1942; letter from Lt Col Simon 'Shimi' Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, to Robert Edward Laycock on 4 Commando, 8 Jul 1942; letter from Laycock on Lt Col Derek Mills-Roberts distinguishing himself in Operation JUBILEE, (raid on Dieppe, 19 Aug 1942), 24 Aug 1942; letters from Col Antony Henry Head to Laycock on frequent personality clashes between Lovat and staff officers, 9 and 23 Sep 1942; extract from a letter to Gen Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, from Lt Gen Sir William Platt, Commander-in-Chief, East African Command, complaining that the expense of Special Service Brigade does not reflect their worth, with response from Laycock, 1942; letter from Lt Col Dudley Stuart Lister, Commanding Officer 10 Commando, on 10 Commando, 13 Nov 1942; letter from Laycock to Noel Coward on the 'Commando March' composed by Coward, 20 Nov 1942; letters from Mills-Roberts on 6 Commando, Jan-Apr 1943; letter on the capture of Lt Col (Archibald) David Stirling, Commanding Officer Special Air Service, 13 Feb 1943; letter on the use of dogs for sledge hauling, 20 Mar 1943; address by Laycock to 2 Commando and letter to their Commanding Officer, Lt Col Jack Churchill, before their departure for Gibraltar, 3 Apr 1943; address from Lt Gen Charles Walter Allfrey, Commander 5 Corps, North Africa, to 1 and 6 Commando at Souk el Arba prior to leaving for Algiers, 4 Apr 1943; letters on the work of 1 and 6 Commando in North Africa, 8 Mar 1943 and 15 Apr 1943; correspondence between Laycock and historian John Spencer on the Crete Campaign, Dec 1959; correspondence on the misrepresentation of the role of Combined Operations in amphibious warfare in The War at Sea, by Stephen Wentworth Roskill, (part of the official history of World War Two), Apr-Oct 1962 and letter to Laycock from Stirling on a libel case mounted by Stirling against the Sunday Times after publication of an article claiming that Stirling had breached security by talking publicly on Operation SNOWDROP (an attack on Benghazi, Libya) 31 Oct 1967. 1 file