Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1948 Jan (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Diary containing daily entries by Pyman with memoranda, telegrams and copy correspondence, including minutes of Chief of Staff's meetings; notes from a conversation with FM Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Chief of the Imperial General Staff over a possible early withdrawal from Palestine and the risks of losing stores that this would entail; notes on a conversation with Brig (Hon Maj Gen) James Malcolm Leslie Renton regarding the status of the British Major General in Iraq; directive relating to the relinquishment by the British Government of the British Mandate for Palestine and the process of evacuation of troops; letter to Montgomery from Gen Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces (MELF) copied to Pyman relating to the British Mission to Greece and its limits of operation. 1 file