Documentary Sources

National Archives, Kew: SOE Personal Files

HS 9/54/8 Maurice Arnouil

HS 9/59/2 Vera Atkins

HS 9/75, 9/76 Claude de Baissac

HS 9/100/2 Francis Basin

HS 9/138/3 Louis Bertheau

HS 9/165/8 Denise Bloch

HS 9/166/7 Marcus Bloom

HS 9/171/1 Nicholas Bodington

HS 9/232/8 Maurice Buckmaster

HS 9/1622/8 Fergus Chalmers-Wright HS 9/314, 9/315 Peter Churchill

HS 9/352/3 Charles Corbin

HS 9/379/8 Pierre Culioli

HS 9/412/1 Marcel Défence

HS 9/416/3 Louis Delsanti

HS 9/421–5 Henri Déricourt

HS 9/420/8 Henri Derringer

HS 9/427/9 Harry Despaigne

HS 9/536/1 Henri Frager

HS 9/581/2 Lewis Gielgud

HS 9/273/2 André Girard (Carte)

HS 9/608/8 André Grandclément

HS 9/630/10 Jacques Vaillant de Guélis

HS 9/681/3 Victor Hayes

HS 9/710/6 George Hiller

HS 9/607/1 Louis Lee Graham

HS 9/923/4 Philippe Liewer

HS 9/980/7 Claude Malraux

HS 9/1011/7 Percy Mayer

HS 9/1089/4 Jacqueline Nearne

HS 9/1096/2 Isidore Newman

HS 9/1096/8 Alfred Newton

HS 9/1097/1 Henry Newton

HS 9/1172/7 Maurice Pertschuk

HS 9/1178/6 Henri Peulevé

HS 9/1196/9 Jacques Poirier

HS 9/1648 Denis Rake

HS 9/391/7 Jean Renaud-Dandicolle

HS 9/1335/4 Robert Searle

HS 9/1395/3 Maurice Southgate

HS 9/1430/6 Francis Suttill

HS 9/1435 Violette Szabó

HS 9/1458 FFE Yeo-Thomas

Other National Archives Files

ADM 199/720 KMF, MKF and various convoy reports.

138 Squadron Files: AIR 20/8301; AIR 20/8302; AIR 20/8451; AIR 20/8452; AIR 20/8458; AIR 20/8459; AIR 20/8478.

161 Squadron Files: AIR 20/8346; AIR 20/8460; AIR 20/8461; AIR 20/8474; AIR 20/8293; AIR 20/8296; AIR 27/956; AIR 27/1068.

HS 6/381 CARTE mission: André Girard; unofficial group formed in 1940, working for interim military dictatorship to replace Vichy Government.

HS 6/382 CARTE mission: André Girard.

HS 6/436 Security files: ACTOR/WEAVER enquiries.

HS 6/437; 6/438 Security files: repatriated prisoners of war; interrogations; war crimes; missing personnel; concentration camp lists.

HS 6/439 Security files: SPU 24 (Paris) vetting; interrogations of returned agents.

HS 6/574–583 Circuit and mission reports and interrogations.

HS 7/33 Section I: signals; appendices A and B.

HS 7/46 E section 1940–45; radio communications division; false document section; supplies organization.

HS 7/121 Personnel dropped by F section; expenditure in field; list of addresses.

HS 7/125 French resistance; railway sabotage.

HS 7/244 France F section Diary Jul-Sep. 1942 (pp. 1–144).

HS 7/245 France F section Diary Oct-Dec 1942 (pp. 145–315).

HS 8/143 Reports and returns: operational reviews and analyses.

HS 8/370 Industrial sabotage training (STS 17).

HS 8/435 SOE training section 1940–1945.

HS 8/1002 British circuits in France by Major Bourne-Patterson.

HS 6/969 Body lines out of Spain.

HS 16 Playfair and Wireless Operators Codes Nominal Card Index.

Imperial War Museum: Document and Sound Archives

Documents (Private papers)

Vera Atkins

Colonel M.J. Buckmaster

H.G.R. Newton MBE

Major H.L.T. Peulevé

Captain Cyril Watney

Mrs C. Wrench

Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas GC MC

Sound Archive

Interview/Year/IWM Ref.

Vera Atkins 1987 9551

Vera Atkins undated 12302

Robert René Boiteux 1988 9851

Robin Brook 1987 9697

Maurice Buckmaster 1983 8680

Maurice Buckmaster 1986 9452

Fergus Chalmers-Wright 1984 8188

Harry Despaigne 1987 9925

Stéphane Hessel 1989 10731

Roger Landes 1985 8641

Jacques Poirier 1988 23250

Jacques Poirier 1999 10446

Cyril Watney 1988 10123

Additional Archive Sources

Amicale Anciens des Services Spéciaux de la Défense Nationale, Paris

Archives Départementales de Corrèze, Tulle

Archivo Histórico Comarcal del Alto Ampurdán, Figueres

BBC Archives

Buchenwald Archives, Weimar

Musée Edmond-Michelet, Brive-la-Gaillarde

Musée de la Résistance Azuréenne, Nice