Item MAYHEW 3/1 - Account of Mayhew's service with SOE, 1940-1942, written in Mar 1942

Typescript copy of autobiographical account written by Mayhew and intended for, although never posted to, his family at Felthorpe Hall, Norwich, relating to his service with Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1940-1942. Letter mentions in detail Mayhew's training at Matlock Intelligence Training Centre, Derbyshire, and SOE schemes and operations in occupied territories; detailed plans for assisting the escape of his brother Paul Mayhew from the K-Lines military internment camp at Curragh, Ireland; the workings of the Political Intelligence Department, SOE; actions of resistance fighters in occupied France; the planning of crop sabotage in occupied countries, including the spread of disease and contamination to beet root crops; the planning of sabotage in the event that Germany should invade Turkey; the spread of anti-communist propaganda in France and Spain; prospects for SOE activities in the Caucasus region and the Far East; the assassination of Axis agents; Mayhew's role as Private Secretary to Rt Hon Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare; details about equipment used by the SOE, including incendiary devices, limpet mines, itching powder; and, Mayhew's personal perceptions of various resistance fighter groups in occupied countries of Europe. 40 pages.