Special Operations Executive (SEO) (1940-1946)
Organisation
Dates
- Existence: 1940 - 1946
Biography
Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British Second World War organisation created in 1940 on the orders of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Following the fall of France in June 1940 Churchill tasked Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, with forming SOE with the instruction to 'set Europe ablaze' by helping local resistance movements and conducting espionage and sabotage in enemy-held territories.
The organisation was officially dissolved in January 1946.
Sources: Imperial War Museum.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Dilks Papers
Fonds
Reference code: 418
Scope and Contents
Research papers, correspondence and transcripts of Professor David Dilks relating to his research project on former Special Operations Executive(SOE) operatives during the Second World War. The collection consists of full transcripts of interviews with 15 former members of SOE recorded between 2002 and 2004, along with supporting correspondence, press cuttings, obituaries and reports. Also includes documents relating to conferences organised or attended by David Dilks between 1962 and...
Dates:
1923 - 2010
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives