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Title
Date(s)
- 1947 Apr (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; plans and directives for exercise QUICKMARCH, a plan for an invasion of Italy; notes on Jewish illegal immigrant camps in Cyprus and shipping of immigrants from Palestine; papers relating to the termination of the British Military Mission to Egypt by the Egyptian government; papers relating to Operation PREFACE, the planned layout of infantry battalions in the Middle East, excluding Greece, Jan - Sep 1947; notes and typescript paper on future weapons; letter to Pyman from AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten Of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia relating to his draft despatch; paper on the responsibilities of military commanders for civil authorities within Middle East Land Forces (MELF) area; paper outlining strength and location of troops and administrative arrangements in each country in the MELF area. 1 file