Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 booklet
Scope and content
Booklet of memorial addresses giving details of his service with Section B1A, MI5, [1939-1945], dated 1994.
System of arrangement
single item
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1909; educated at Charterhouse School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Seaforth Highlanders, 1929; joined MI5, [1931]; took part in intelligence activities in both military and political spheres, but later moved into the counter-espionage field; recalled to Seaforth Highlanders and seconded back to MI5, 1939; built up and; controlled double agent network through Section B1A; involved in planning of Operation MINCEMEAT, 1943, which aimed at persuading the Germans that an Allied invasion of Greece was imminent and that Sicily was merely a cover plan for another operation; masterminded Operation FORTITUDE, 1944, which was intended to suggest that the Allied invasion of occupied France was likely to take place in the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy; appointed to direct internal security at Government Communications HQ, [1945]; died in 1994.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Decorations: OBE
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.