Author: P9-J

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  Hetherington, chairman FICM.  Major Francis Edward Foley CMG was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer. As a  passport control officer for the British embassy in Berlin, Foley bent the rules and helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War. He is officially recognised as a British Hero of the  Holocaust.  Following the war, Foley retired to Stourbridge where he lived with his wife…

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 ownership roots in Bedfordshire. Osborn is the family name long associated with Chicksands Priory and from Whitechapel, Osborn Street becomes Brick Lane (today famous for curry houses). Chicksand Street is 270 yards long, incorporating Osborn Place one of many courts and alleys that have disappeared. A walk down Chicksand Street offers few clues to life and times in the past, but ‘Fashion Street’ nearby soon brings you to what was once Borer’s Passage where a…

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 some of the most inhospitable  country in Africa. The fighting and associated military activity ranged over today’s nations of Kenya, Uganda,  Tanzania, Malawi, Ruanda, Burundi, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, and finally ended in Zambia.  Many troops moved north to fight from South Africa and Zimbabwe.  The enemy to Britain and her Allies was the stubborn and well-managed Schutztruppe based in German East Africa  (Tanzania). This force was led by General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, a…

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 has arrived and the G.S.I.z forward parties, which  have been operating in 4th Corps, are coming back, I would like at this  juncture to express my appreciation of the work which these parties have  been doing.  I know well enough the hard conditions under which they have been living  and operating for weeks on end, I know too the strain that the work  imposes on all members of the parties – it has, in fact,…