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CARY-ELWES, Lt Col Oswald Aloysius Joseph (1913-1994)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cary-Elwes

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: CARY-ELWES, Lt Col Oswald Aloysius Joseph (1913-1994)

Date(s): Created 1944, [1965], 1987

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Elwes | Oswald Aloysius Joseph | Cary- | 1913-1994 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1913; 2nd Lt, Royal Lincolnshire Regt, 1933; Lt, 1936; General Staff Officer Grade 3, HQ Western Command, 1940; Bde Maj, Nigerian Bde, 1940-1942; Capt, 1941;General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1 Lines of Communication Sub-Area, North Africa, 1942-1943, 20 Liaison HQ, 1944, and North West Europe, 1945-1946; served with the French Special Air Service, 1944; General Staff Officer Grade 1, North West Europe, 1946; Maj, 1946; General Staff Officer Grade 2, British Military Mission to France, 1947; AMA (General Staff Officer 2), Cairo, 1949-1951; General Staff Officer Grade 2 later Grade 1, HQ Allied Forces in Central Europe, 1955-1958; Lt Col, 1956; General Staff Officer Grade 1, French Forces in Germany, 1958-1959; retired, 1968; died in 1994.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers relating to his service with the French Special Air Service, France, 1944, some dated 1944, [1965] and 1987, principally comprising 'Looking back to the French SAS in Brittany, 1944', article by Cary-Elwes from the [Military Intelligence Review], 1947; pamphlet on Operation BONAPARTE, an operation to help Allied airmen to escape from occupied Europe, 1944-1945, published in the USA in [1965]; typescript text on the French Special Air Service, 1940-1946, written by [Cary-Elwes] in 1987; manuscript account of his service with Cary-Elwes and the French Special Air Service, Brittany, 1944, by Cpl Eric Mills, Cary-Elwes' batman, ND .

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1995 from originals loaned by the family.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Operation Bonaparte (1944-1945) | Military operations | Military engineering
Special forces | Armed forces | State security
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Elwes | Oswald Aloysius Joseph | Cary- | 1913-1994 | Lieutenant Colonel x Cary-Elwes | Oswald Aloysius Joseph
Mills | Eric | Corporal | fl 1944 | batman of Lt Col Oswald Aloysius Joseph Cary-Elwes

Corporate names
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force

Places
Brittany | France | Western Europe | Europe