Dishwasher safe.
Socks in the Corps colours.
Wash at 30 degrees.
PLEASE NOTE - As of 23 May 2024 the wearing of rank slides with the King's devices (ie crown) has now been authorised. All personnel, where applicable, should now have been issued at least ONE rank slide. Old design rank slides should now NOT to be worn.
Metal Intelligence Corps Cap badge for LCpl - WO2
In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship that was to lead to one of the most daring and remarkable wartime escape stories ever told. Antony Coulthard was the privately educated son of wealthy parents and he had a first-class honours degree in modern languages from Oxford. Fred Foster was the son of a bricklayer from Nottinghamshire - he had left school with no qualifications aged 14. This seemingly mismatched young pair bonded in the prison camp, and hatched a plan to disguise themselves as advertising executives working for Siemens. They would simply walk out of the camp, board a train - and head straight into the heart of Nazi Germany. Which is precisely what they did. Their route into Germany was one that no one would think to search for escaped PoWs. This breathtakingly audacious plan involved 18 months of undercover work, including Antony (nicknamed 'The Professor' by fellow inmates) spending 3 hours every evening teaching Fred to speak German. They set off for the Swiss border via Germany, doing some sightseeing along the way in Munich and Berlin, taking notes of strategic interest while eating in restaurants and drinking beer with Nazi officers, just yards from Hitler's HQ. But could they make it out alive?
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse those pictures. They were inventive and ingenious; they pioneered the development of 3D photography and their work provided vital intelligence throughout the war.
With a whole host of colourful characters at its heart, from the legendary pilot Adrian 'Warby' Warburton, who went missing while on a mission, to photo interpreters Glyn Daniel, later a famous television personality, and Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah. SPIES IN THE SKY is compelling reading and the first full account of the story of aerial photography and the intelligence gleaned from it in nearly fifty years.
Taylor Downing is a best-selling author and historian and an award-winning television producer. He worked at the Imperial War Museum and Thames Television and then for more than 25 years he ran the highly successful independent television production company, Flashback Television, where he produced more than 200 historical documentaries. He writes popular histories and also books about film and television.
The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon.
A World War II codebreaker who helped to decipher both German and Japanese communications, Betty Webb tells her enthralling story of courage and secrecy in this unputdownable memoir.
Between 1941 and 1945 Betty Webb played a vital role in the top-secret efforts being made to decipher the secret communications of the Germans and later the Japanese. In 1945, as other members of the forces returned home from the war in Europe, she was sent to the Pentagon and was in Washington DC when the atomic bombs fell and when Eisenhower announced the end of the war.
Betty was unable to reveal the true nature of her work, even to her parents, until years later. In this fascinating book, she revisits the key moments of her life and recounts the incredible stories from her time at Bletchley Park.
"An engaging autobiography" - The Daily Telegraph
Embroidered General Staff cloth cap badge on Cypress Green felt for INT CORPS beret
Woven in Corps Colours with Metal Buckle Fastening
Anodised & coloured 5/8" Bath Stars (pips) - qty one pair (2)
You will receive 1 x metre hat band in the Corps Colours. Width 36mm.
Hat bands are not ready-made; you will have to cut to fit and tailor as necessary for a correct fit.
An ornate Victorian manor sat in picturesque surroundings overlooking the River Thames at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. Perhaps not the first place that springs to mind when considering the top-secret photographic interpretation that helped secure an Allied victory in the Second World War, but this was the headquarters of the Allied Central Interpretation Unit. It was here that air photography from all over enemy-occupied Europe was pored over by photographic interpreters, who sought out intricate details of enemy activity which then influenced virtually every Allied operation of the war.,
These quick-minded men and women were the ones to find out where the infamous German V-weapons were being constructed, were the first to see the results of the Dambusters' raid and were sworn to utmost secrecy on everything they viewed. Women made up half of this work force and were, unusually, treated as equals with their male counterparts: the best person for the job, regardless of gender. Here the women of Medmenham, the `Women of Intelligence' from Churchill's daughter to girls escaping home for the first time, tell the story of their wartime life and work - in their own words.
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women’s vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform. From spies in the Belgian network “La Dame Blanche,” knitting coded messages into jumpers, to those who interpreted aerial images and even ran entire sections, Fry shows just how crucial women were in the intelligence mission. Filled with hitherto unknown stories, Women in Intelligence places new research on record for the first time and showcases the inspirational contributions of these remarkable women.
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).
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.
1 Pack containing 2 x Mess Dress Pips 5/8"
Embroidered Cloth Beret Badge for Officers and WO1s
1 Pair of anodised 3/4" Crowns with red velvet backdrop
In accordance with current Intelligence Corps dress regulations for:
No.1 & No.2 Dress
Fitted with double pin and backing clips for securing purposes
This book focuses on telling a history of British Military intelligence from the 19th Century to the most recent campaigns by describing some objects lodged in the Military Intelligence Museum and the Archives at Chicksands in Bedfordshire and then telling the story behind them or explaining why the object is of historical interest.
Corps badge cufflinks. Gold plated and enamelled.
Dimensions: W-2cm H-3cm (see image 2)
Approx. 5inches/13cm when seated
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