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Operation Menace (1940)

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Free French schedule for "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], 1940-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 6/7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Papers on ELS's political, military and public activities, including: files on his Parliamentary work; military maps, telegrams and correspondence, particularly relating to the Dakar landings and ELS's work with the Free French as First Minister to Syria and the Lebanon; a file on his re-election campaign in the 1945 General Election.

Dates: 1940-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Journal and accompanying papers, 1940-08-30 - 1940-10-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/36
Scope and Contents

ELS's journal kept during "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Vice-Admiral Sir John Cunningham [Vice-Admiral Commanding First Cruiser Squadron]; Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice; General Charles de Gaulle; the Admiralty; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister.

Dates: 1940-08-30 - 1940-10-28
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Journal and accompanying papers, 1940-10-25 - 1940-11-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/37
Scope and Contents

ELS's journal kept following "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Major Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to Winston Churchill]; MS; General Charles de Gaulle, Chief of Free French.

Also includes aerial photographs of the Dakar expedition.

Dates: 1940-10-25 - 1940-11-19
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letters from ELS to Nancy Maurice (later Nancy, Lady Spears), 1930-08 - 1941-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 4/2/10
Scope and Contents Subjects include: a visit to Scotland; ELS’s distress for Nancy during the bombing of London; his relations with General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French]; the failure of the landings at Dakar [Senegal]; difficulties at the Syrian conference in Cairo [Egypt]; personal tensions with General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East]; ELS's frustration at his situation; MS being confined to hospital; de Gaulle’s reaction to the British terms for the armistice with the Vichy...
Dates: 1930-08 - 1941-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Maps of Dakar defences for "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings in Senegal, 1940-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 6/8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Papers on ELS's political, military and public activities, including: files on his Parliamentary work; military maps, telegrams and correspondence, particularly relating to the Dakar landings and ELS's work with the Free French as First Minister to Syria and the Lebanon; a file on his re-election campaign in the 1945 General Election.

Dates: 1940-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.