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McLachlan, Donald Harvey, 1908 - 1971 (author and intelligence officer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1908 - 1971

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Biographical material collected by Donald McLachlan relating to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DUPO
Scope and Contents

Pound's own papers were destroyed (by burning), shortly after World War Two, by his fellow admirals Cunningham and Geoffrey Blake.

Dates: 1865 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Copies of lawyer's notes on conversations with Jackie Broome and Donald McLachlan, 1969 - 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRME 9/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers mainly relating to a libel action against David Irving and Cassell and Co Ltd over the publication of "The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17".
With a photograph album of Louis Egerton Broome, 1900-10.

Dates: 1969 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

McLachlan's "Room 39" - Additional, 1926 - 1967

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLBE 6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection includes: McLachlan's papers for "Room 39"; Beesly's papers for "Very Special Intelligence" and for "Very Special Admiral"; and papers of Commander Lloyd Hirst, an intelligence officer.

Dates: 1926 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

McLachlan's "Room 39" Papers, 1940 - 1967

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLBE 1
Scope and Contents

The first section of this Archive contains valuable correspondence with officers who served in NID.

Dates: 1940 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers, mainly from Field Marshal [1st Lord] Montgomery of Alamein [Chief of Imperial General Staff]., Feb 1948 - May 1950

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/31
Scope and Contents Includes copies of: various notes and memoranda by Montgomery for the War Office or Chiefs of Staff Committee on the British Army, Western European defence, and his 1948 visits to France and Austria; addresses by him to the "Ecole Superieur de Guerre" and senior officers of the Brussels Treaty Powers, Fontainebleau [France].Other correspondents include: Leslie Hore-Belisha sending on notes of his conversation with the Spanish High Commissioner [to Morocco] General Valera and a translation of...
Dates: Feb 1948 - May 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open

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