GB 0099 KCLMA Robertson T A - ROBERTSON, Lt Col Thomas Argyll (1909-1994)

1 booklet

GB 0099 KCLMA Robertson T A Created 1994 Collection (fonds) 1 booklet

Born in 1909; educated at Charterhouse School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Seaforth Highlanders, 1929; joined MI5, [1931]; took part in intelligence activities in both military and political spheres, but later moved into the counter-espionage field; recalled to Seaforth Highlanders and seconded back to MI5, 1939; built up and; controlled double agent network through Section B1A; involved in planning of Operation MINCEMEAT, 1943, which aimed at persuading the Germans that an Allied invasion of Greece was imminent and that Sicily was merely a cover plan for another operation; masterminded Operation FORTITUDE, 1944, which was intended to suggest that the Allied invasion of occupied France was likely to take place in the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy; appointed to direct internal security at Government Communications HQ, [1945]; died in 1994.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.

Booklet of memorial addresses giving details of his service with Section B1A, MI5, [1939-1945], dated 1994.

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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.
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Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

Decorations: OBE
Oct 1996 Wars (events) Calais Europe France Greece International conflicts Italy Military engineering Military intelligence Military operations Normandy Operation Fortitude (1944) Operation Mincemeat (1943) Sicily War Warfare Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Military science Social sciences

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.

Booklet of memorial addresses giving details of his service with Section B1A, MI5, [1939-1945], dated 1994.

single item

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.

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English

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

Decorations: OBE

Decorations: OBE

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