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Description: | British intelligence officer served at GHQ British Expeditionary Force on Western Front, 1914-1918; served at War Office in London, GB, 1918 [difficult audibility]
REEL 1: Opinion of Brigadier John Charteris; opinion of General McDonough; influence of Charteris on Haig; methods of intelligence gathering including captured documents and interrogation of POWs; usefulness of Alsatian deserters; question of confirmation of intelligence; opinion of effectiveness of intelligence; comparison of intelligence gathering by War Office and British Expeditionary Force; relative importance of captured German officers and men; types of questions asked during interrogation; question of interrogating wounded men; method of recruitment into intelligence service and type of personnel recruited; question of transfer of German troops from Eastern to Western Front during Battle of Cambrai, 1917; role of Charteris in intelligence operation; question of Siegfried-Stellung line, 1917.
REEL 2 Continues: question of German manpower resources, 1917; opinion of Plumer and Gough; question of removal of Prussian troops from POW cages; question of condition of French Army after Nivelle offensive, 1917; opinion of German morale; knowledge of Secret Service operations and recruitment; question of identity of 'C'; opinion of Major Desmond Morton; problem of bad weather prior to Passchendaele offensive, 1917; influence of Charteris on Haig; further comments on Charteris. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Marshall-Cornwall, James Handyside | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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