"Little Ted" Teddy Bear

sku Product SKU:  5040

Approx. 5inches/13cm when seated

GBP 12.0000

"Big Ted" Teddy Bear

sku Product SKU:  5041

Approx. 12inches/30cm when seated

GBP 24.0000

Footwear

sku Product SKU:  1983

ICA has a small range of second-hand Officer & OR pattern Intelligence Corps military and mess dress footwear. Shoes and boots range in size and condition. Prices vary accordingly. Please see below for items currently in stock.

FOR SALE

We currently have in stock:

Ref GB-1 George Boots, patent leather (vgc)       Size: 9L    £50 (elasticated ankle - slip-on)

Ref GB-2 George Boots, patent leather (as new) Size: 12    £50 

Ref GB-5 George Boots, patent leather (vgc)       Size: 8     £50 (prov sold)

Ref GB-6 George Boots, black (gc)                      Size: 12    £40

 

Ref WB-1 Wellington Boots, black leather             Size 9       £75  

 

Ref FSD-1 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                 Size: 9M   £30 

Ref FSD-3 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                 Size: 9      £30 

Ref FSD-4 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                 Size: 9      £30 

Ref FSD-5 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                  Size: 9      £20 (worn sole put serviceable)

 Ref FSD-6 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                 Size: 8.5  £40 (vgc) 

Ref FSD-7 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                  Size: 8      £30 

Ref FSD-8 Service Dress shoes (Offr)                  Size: 11    £40 (vgc) 

To enquire about purchasing any of these items, please contact ICA as below.

ICA  Bldg 200, Chicksands, Bedfordshire SG17 5PR

Mil: 94649 x2756

Civ: 01462 752756

Email: ica.admin@roseandlaurel.uk

 

GBP 0.0000

Listening to the Enemy

sku Product SKU:  2025

War Comes to a Cornish Village - St Erth Radio Station 1939-1964.

Shortlisted for the Holyer An Gof Publishers' Award 2023.

If you take the road out of St Erth and travel up the hill towards St Erth Praze, you could easily miss, on your right, a dilapidated single storey concrete building. It is in a field close by the edge  of the road. This is the guard/generator hut for a very secret and important MI6 Radio Listening Station. Together with its sister sites across the country, it had a profound effect on the outcome of World War 2.

Listening to the Enemy is a fascinating story of this Bletchley Part outstation. Over several years, Mike Griffiths has painstakingly researched the origins and purpose of this site. His father, Harry, was a radio operator at the station throughout the war and he recorded many of his contacts in a little black book - his 'Code Book'. This book - full of German and Italian radio nets, brevity codes and Double Agent call signs, encapsulates the role of Bletchley Park; the home of the Codebreakers. 

St Erith Radio Station and its sister sites were quite literally the ears of Bletchley Park.

GBP 12.5000

KING'S CROWN - Stable Belt (Other Ranks)

sku Product SKU:  3004

Intelligence Corps Stable Belt with front metal buckle fastening

KING'S CROWN DESIGN

Belt width: 6.5cm or 2.5inches

Size Guidelines

Small - 24-28in / 62-72cm
Medium - 28-34in / 72-88cm
Large - 34-38in / 88-98cm
XL - 38-42in / 98-112cm

GBP 35.0000

The Two Generals (Part One)

sku Product SKU:  2026

The Intelligence Corps was formed in July 1940 but on the understanding that it would be disbanded after the war. The fact that it continues to exist today is down to the foresight and determination of one man – Major General F H N Davidson, a highly decorated Royal Artillery officer who served as Director of Military Intelligence between 1940 and 1944 and then as Colonel Commandant of the Corps between 1952 and 1960. Recognising the need for an Intelligence Corps in peacetime, in preparation for any future conflicts, Davidson fought the War Office to preserve the Corps, in the face of strong opposition, when the war ended and won. Later, while Colonel Commandant of the Corps in the 1950s, he fought the War Office again, still facing strong opposition, this time to remove the ban on Regular officers being allowed into the Corps and his determination led to the ‘First 100’ Regular officers being transferred and/or commissioned into the Corps. It was this move that enabled to the Corps to develop into the organisation it is today.

This book charts the biographical background of Major General Davidson and details his two successful skirmishes with the War Office on behalf of the Intelligence Corps and the development of the Corps between 1945 and the early 1980s.

(Note:  Part Two will cover the development of the Corps from the 1980s to the present day, through the eyes of an Intelligence Corps officer whose career in the Corps would lead to his elevation to 4* General, thus justifying Major General Davidson’s belief that officers of the Intelligence Corps were second to none and could compete for the most senior positions in the British Army).

GBP 10.0000

The Story of Rena Stewart

sku Product SKU:  2027

Soldier, journalist and centenarian; a triple badge of honour, especially for a woman.  Introducing Rena Stewart (1923-2023), a remarkable, 100-year-old Bletchley Park Girl who translated Hitler's will and blazed a trail for women at the BBC.  The Story of  Rena Stewart narrates Rena's fascinating tale, in her own words, and is a testament to a life that was seriously well lived. 

GBP 18.0000

In the Name of the Rose

sku Product SKU:  2028

This is the story of those 287 members of the Corps who have been killed in action or died of wounds, accidents or sickness while on active service or operational deployment since its formation.  Members of the Corps served in all Intelligence-related disciplines in every theatre of the Second World War and in all the post-1945 wars, campaigns and deployments. Some members served on ‘Special Duties’, with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Political Warfare Executive (PWE) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS - otherwise known as MI6): many paid the ultimate price, with some killed in action and others suffering degradation, torture, and a slow death in Nazi concentration camps. In addition, our officers and soldiers served on attachment to the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), the Special Air Service (SAS), Special Boat Squadron (SBS) and even the exotically-named ‘Levant Schooner Flotilla.’ A total of 249 members of the Corps died during the war and in the immediate aftermath.

Since the end of the war, Intelligence Corps personnel have seen continuing active service in conventional warfare, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorist and peacekeeping missions across the globe. In Palestine, Korea, Suez, Malaya, Borneo, Cyprus, Kenya, Oman, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, and Afghanistan - members of the Corps have proudly worn the ‘Rose & Laurel’ cap badge and displayed the professionalism and dedication that has become synonymous with it. In these operations a further 38 members of the Corps gave their lives.

The story of each casualty includes detailed biographical and service information, for which the author was granted special unrestricted access to their service files. Each story is set in the wider context of the war or campaign/deployment in which they died and details the circumstances of their death.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive record of those men and women of the Corps who made the ultimate sacrifice while engaged on active service.

GBP 15.0000

Spymaster

sku Product SKU:  2029

Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author (for Yale) of MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two (2020), The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operations of World War II (2019), and The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's WWII Interrogation Centre (2017). 

He books focus on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the social history of World War II. Helen undertakes consultancy work for documentary companies and appears frequently in TV interviews and documentaries, and has engaged in wider historical projects, including adult education and as ambassador for the Military Intelligence Museum.

GBP 10.0000

Scrunchie

sku Product SKU:  4016

GBP 10.0000

The White Lady

sku Product SKU:  2030

Intelligence gathering was essential in both world wars, and networks in occupied Belgium were at the heart of MI6's efforts.  In the First World War, agents in La Dame Blanche - the White Lady - acted as couriers, radio operators and spies to undermine and frustrate German control. And then, when war broke out again two decades later, the leaders of that same network regrouped and established a successor; the Clarence Service.

Helen Fry charts the extraordinary achievements of these pivotal groups.  Drawing on recently declassified files, Fry examines who the agents were, how there were recruited, and what impact the information they gathered had on the outcome of both wars.

This is a compelling account of the agents who risked their lives and found ingenious ways to smuggle intelligence out of occupied Europe.

GBP 17.0000

A Pansy Resting on its Laurels - PRIVATE

sku Product SKU:  2031

A story about an Intelligence Corps soldier going through training at Ashford.

Everyone has heard of MI5 and MI6, but what about plain old MI? 

Jon Conwyn had heard of it, but had no idea what they actually did. He had served in the infantry and even gone to Sandhurst, but nothing held his interest, so he was not on the lookout for something new.  Many people fancy themselves as an international spy, but in truth, the Intelligence Corps is more Harry Palmer than James Bond; working in the shadows and pitting your wits against an unseen foe.

Jon figured that the only way to find out what life in Military Intelligence was actually like was to join them.

GBP 9.0000

Lanyard

sku Product SKU:  3018

GBP 7.5000