Catalogue description Special Operations Executive: Histories and War Diaries: Registered Files

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Reference: HS 7
Title: Special Operations Executive: Histories and War Diaries: Registered Files
Description:

These records provide contemporary or near contemporary historical accounts of the activities of the various sections of the Special Operations Executive, and daily 'diary' accounts of the activities of the territorial sections. The section histories and war diaries, written in the closing months and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, provide a broad overview of SOE activities.

Date: c1939-1988
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Miscellaneous
Physical description: 287 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Custodial history: Transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1968.
Accumulation dates: 1945 to 1946
Accruals: No future accruals expected

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