Catalogue description Jacques Edmond Charles MEFFRE, alias Victor John Edouard HOWARD. A highly decorated...

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Details of KV 2/3772
Reference: KV 2/3772
Description:

Jacques Edmond Charles MEFFRE, alias Victor John Edouard HOWARD. A highly decorated French army officer in the First World War, Commandant MEFFRE was appointed Chief of Security at the headquarters of the Free French Forces in London in 1940. He became involved in, and may have joined, a plot against the head of the Free French Navy, Admiral MUSELIER. As a result, though he was not prosecuted, MEFFRE was interned for the duration of the war

Date: 1940 Aug 06 - 1942 Aug 14
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PF 55727 VOL 1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Retained Until 2014
Record opening date: 28 February 2014

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