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- Created [1939-1945], 1948, 1965, 1966 (Creación)
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1 file
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Historia biográfica
Born in 1905; 2nd Lt, Welch Regt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939, and Crete, 1941; captured by Germans in Crete, 1941, and held as POW in Salonika and Germany, 1941-1945; Maj, 1942; Lt Col, 1947; died in 1985.
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GB 0099 KCLMA Griffith Created [1939-1945], 1948, 1965, 1966 Collection (fonds) 1 file
Born in 1905; 2nd Lt, Welch Regt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939, and Crete, 1941; captured by Germans in Crete, 1941, and held as POW in Salonika and Germany, 1941-1945; Maj, 1942; Lt Col, 1947; died in 1985.
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988 and 1989.
Papers relating to his military service during World War Two, dated [1939-1945], 1948, 1965-1966, notably including account of the service of 1 Welch Regt in Crete, May 1941, written in 1966; silk map of North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, [1939-1945]; account of his imprisonment in Salonika in 1941 and his subsequent transportation to Germany, [1945]; typescript copy of 'Per anum ad astra', an account by Alexis Casdigli of the smuggling of maps from Oflag IX A-H to Oflag XII B in 1944 by a group of POWs, including Casdigli and Griffith, written in 1948, copied in 1965.
1 file
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
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.
English, some German
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Feb 1997 Armed forces British Army Casdigli , Alexis , fl 1944 , Allied prisoner of war Crete Documents Europe Germany Greece Information sources International conflicts International relations Maps Mediterranean Sea Memoirs Military organizations North Africa Organizations Salonika Seas State security Visual materials War War prisoners War victims Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) Primary documents
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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988 and 1989.
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Papers relating to his military service during World War Two, dated [1939-1945], 1948, 1965-1966, notably including account of the service of 1 Welch Regt in Crete, May 1941, written in 1966; silk map of North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, [1939-1945]; account of his imprisonment in Salonika in 1941 and his subsequent transportation to Germany, [1945]; typescript copy of 'Per anum ad astra', an account by Alexis Casdigli of the smuggling of maps from Oflag IX A-H to Oflag XII B in 1944 by a group of POWs, including Casdigli and Griffith, written in 1948, copied in 1965.
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1 file
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Condiciones
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.
Idioma del material
- inglés
Escritura del material
- latín
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
English, some German
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Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
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- Seguridad del Estado » Fuerzas armadas
- Documento
- Fuente de información
- Conflicto internacional
- Relaciones internacionales
- Material visual » Mapa
- Organización
- Mar
- Seguridad del Estado
- Material visual
- Conflicto internacional » Guerra
- Conflicto internacional » Víctima de guerra » Prisionero de guerra
- Conflicto internacional » Víctima de guerra
- Documento » Documento primario
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- inglés