Item WOODHOUSE 1/6 - Correspondence, Mar 1943, between Middle East Command and the British Military Mission to Greece

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WOODHOUSE 1/6

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Correspondence, Mar 1943, between Middle East Command and the British Military Mission to Greece

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  • 1943 Mar (Creation)

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98 items

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Correspondence between Middle East Command and British Military Mission to Greece including updates on Operation HARLING (British Military Mission to Greece); updates on political situation in Greece especially threat of civil war; message from Gen Napoleon Zervas, EDES (Greek Democratic National League) leader to Greek King George II; advice from Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers to Middle East Command that Britain should support Zervas; correspondence relating to Lt Bower, personal assistant to Myers; requests for supplies; formation and terms of the National Bands (Ethnikes Omades), and 'National Bands Agreement' between Greek partisans (andartes) and Middle East Command 14 Mar 1943; intelligence on mutiny in Greek armed forces in the Middle East, 17 Mar 1943; intelligence on Allied plan to invade Sicily, 26 Feb 1943; message from Greek King George II to the National Bands, 24 Mar 1943. 98 items.

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