Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943 Mar (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
98 items
Scope and content
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.