HS1936-1992Records of Special Operations Executive
The records of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which functioned during the Second World War to promote sabotage and subversion and assist resistance groups in enemy occupied territory.
Files relating to operations in the Far East are in HS 1, Scandinavia in HS 2, Africa and the Middle East in HS 3, Eastern Europe in HS 4, the Balkans in HS 5, and Western Europe, including Ireland and the Channel Islands in HS 6.
Histories and war diaries are in HS 7 and headquarters records in HS 8.
Special Operations Executive: Station 15b Exhibition: Photographs are in HS 10
A number of nominal indexes of SOE records were made during its lifetime by registry and other staff, and these were kept and added to by the SOE Adviser after 1946. The indexes include references to SOE records which have not survived:
The general nominal and subject file index is in HS 11;