Category Archives: Administrative

Tuesday, 1 April 1941

Air Intelligence Directorate, The Air Ministry

Flt Lt Walter Farley, DFC, is promoted Squadron Leader. His leg still in plaster, and obviously ‘grounded’, Farley has been posted to assist Group Captain John Bradbury DFC and Wing Cdr Easton in the small section of Air Intelligence involved in planning clandestine operations, replacing S/Ldr Knowles who has been posted to command 1419 Flight. This section, currently in A.I.4, will be re-designated as A.I.2(c).

Monday, 25 November 1940

Richmond Terrace, London

The Chiefs of Staff issue their paper ‘Subversive Activities in Relation to Strategy’. As is stated in the preamble, its purpose is to guide the Special Operations Executive ‘as to the direction in which subversive activities can best assist our strategy’.

Sources

TNA AIR 20/7954