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Alan Edwards – Award for 2018
The award this year goes to 63 MI Company Presented to CO 6 MI Battalion, Lt Col Andy Hetherington on Corps Day by Mr Tony
‘Chicksanguine’
By Lester Hillman Spitalfields, immediately east of the City of London, is an area historically associated with the Huguenot community. But place names point to
Intelligence Gallantry Awards for the East African Campaign of World War I
By Harry Fecitt MBE TD The East African Campaign of the Great War Between 1914 and 1918 German and Allied antagonists fought hard battles over
Fighting Heroes of the Intelligence Corps
By Harry Fecitt MBE TD, (ex-22 Intelligence Company and various armies) Hero No. 2: SAMUEL NEWLAND DSO Indian Army Intelligence Corps Now that the monsoon
The School that Disappeared
By Paul Croxson It was a simple enough request, ‘What did I know about the Intelligence schools and their numbering?’ ‘Not a lot,’ was the
Get Some In!
National Service On 7 May 1963, 23819209 Private Fred Turner cooked his last breakfast at the home of the 13/18 Hussars. A few days earlier
A Fighting Hero of the Intelligence Corps
By Harry Fecitt MBE TD . . . however many of the latest spies’ wonder-toys they had in their cupboards, however many magic codes they
The Zimmermann Telegram
Introduction By early 1917 the First World War was a stalemate. Germany had known, perhaps from as early as 1915 that it could not achieve
Who is that Chap in the Middle?
Major Arthur Birse Watching the World at War the other evening, the ‘war’ was finally drawing to an end and the leaders of the three
The Creation of Combined Bureau Middle East (CBME)
Or, the Battle for Little Bletchley During my researches into the history of the Corps, particularly relating to the world of signals intelligence and the
Int & Spies in Belsize
‘ICA members and Friends take evasive action’ Agatha Christie, the American Civil War, George Crosses, V-1 ski ramps, WWI German military intelligence officers, Communist agents
Historical Musing Geese and Golden Eggs
For some time I have been exercised by statements made about Enigma and have wondered ‘what was their source?’. Every schoolboy knows (to quote Macaulay)