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Description: | Extensive collection of papers, including diaries, letters, memoirs, official documents, and passports, January 1916 - June 1974, recording his service with the Royal Artillery and on the General Staff, November 1916 - May 1945, including: officer training at the RMA, Woolwich, May 1916; flying training at the School of Military Aeronautics in Reading, October 1917 - April 1918; service with the RAF in Egypt, April - December 1918; with the Royal Artillery in Mesopotamia, November 1919 - 1920; as correspondent for the 'Morning Post' observing French and Spanish forces operating against Abdel Krim in Morocco, 1925; with the Transjordan Frontier Force, October 1930 - January 1932; at the Staff College, Camberley, 1933 - 1934; on the staff in Palestine, 1936 - 1938; in Aden, May 1935; as Deputy Assistant Military Secretary at the War Office, September - December 1939; on special duty reconnoitring an overland route from East Africa to Egypt, December 1939 - March 1940; as liaison officer between the War Office and the British Forces in Norway, April - May 1940; raising and operating the Commandos as a Military Assistant to the CIGS at the War Office, June - December 1940; and as Head of 'A' Force in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, December 1940 - April 1945, organising deception planning for Allied operations in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
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Catalogue date 1999-02-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clarke, D W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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