Catalogue description Brigadier G M O Davy CB CBE DSO

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Title: Brigadier G M O Davy CB CBE DSO
Description:

Microfilm of an ts extract (285pp, Chapters XII - XXII) from his memoirs recording his service in France, the Middle East and the Balkans, September 1939 - October 1944, including: his attachment as one of two army officers to Royal Naval Staff College at Greenwich prior to the war; active service as GSO2, British Military Mission with the French High Command, September 1939 - May 1940; Head of the British Mission to the Belgian GQG, May 1940, and his evacuation to the UK; on the Vansittart "Committee for Bolstering up French Resistance", ?June 1940 - July 1940; with his regiment, 3rd Hussars (7th Armoured Brigade), against Italian forces in the desert, December 1940 - February 1941; as GSO1, HQ British Troops in Greece during the evacuation, ?March 1941 - ?July 1941; GOC 7th Armoured Brigade (7th Armoured Division) in the desert, July 1941 - December 1941, being awarded the DSO; Director of Military Operations at GHQ Middle East, December 1941 - 1944, during the battles of El Alamein, Churchill's visit (August 1942), conferences with the Americans at Casablanca and Algiers (January 1943), visiting Turkey and the Dodecanese Islands (October 1943); Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations) at the Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers, 1944 - June 1944, visiting Italy and preparing for the invasion of Elba; commanding Land Forces Adriatic, a new Combined Services Organisation operating against the Germans in Yugoslavia and Albania, June 1944 - September 1944 and in Greece, September 1944 - October 1944; commenting on British and French planning during the Phoney War, French strategic obstinacy in 1940, a visit to the Maginot Line by the Duke of Windsor, the Greek Civil War, and the staff system; and also mentioning General Sir Richard Howard-Vyse; General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart; Field Marshals Alexander of Tunis, Sir Claude Auchinleck, Lord Gort, and Lord Wilson of Libya.
Date: Undated
Held by: Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Davy, George Mark Oswald, 1898-1983, Brigadier
Physical condition: Microfilm
Access conditions:

Unrestricted
Subjects:
  • North Africa
  • Italy
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Greece
  • Turkey
  • Yugoslavia
  • Albania
  • Middle East
  • Army personnel
  • Second World War, 1939-1945
  • Battle of El Alamein, 1942

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