Intelligence Corps Stable Belt with front metal buckle fastening - WITH QUEEN'S CROWN DESIGN

SIZES SMALL & EXTRA LARGE ONLY. 

Belt width: 6.5cm or 2.5inches

Size Guidelines

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

Dishwasher safe.

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:

1 x Officer pattern Service Dress Shoes (brown) Size: 9M   £25

1 x Officer pattern Service Dress Shoes (brown) Size: 9M   £25

1 x George Boots, black patent leather (as new) Size: 12 £50

1 x George Boots, black patent leather (elasticated ankle / slip-on)  Size: 9L £50

1 x George Boots, black (lace-up) Size: 10 £25

1 x George Boots black leather (lace-up) Size: 9.5  £30

1 x George Boots, black (lace-up) Size: 7   £25

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

This special edition is devoted to the history and development of P.R. and P.I. and forms the final and closing number of the production, "Evidence in Camera".

Further note (inner cover):

"Publication of this magazine had now been discontinued and future material will be incorporated in the Air Ministry Weekly Intelligence Summary"

T-Shirt embroidered with the Corps badge - new King's Crown design

100% cotton

Performs at 60 degree wash.

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.

Woven in Corps Colours with Metal Buckle Fastening

Silicon

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.

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?

This book explores the ghostly happenings of one of Bedfordshire's most haunted buildings - Chicksands Priory.

Paranormal historian, Damien O’Dell, has published his findings about the facts and myths of the site over the past 1,000 years. Readers can delve into 'Chicksands Priory - England’s Most Haunted House?', and step into the building's clandestine history.

In July 1940, a desperately weakened Britain licks her wounds after the humiliating retreat from Dunkirk.  How can the fight be taken to the enemy?  New Prime Minister Winston Churchill orders the creation of the Special Operations Executive, to 'set Europe ablaze' through subversion and sabotage.  But this most secret of agencies must be kept secure.

Guardians of Churchill's Secret Army tells the mostly unknown human stories of the men who were brought into SOE, straight from Intelligence Corps training, to do just that.  They were junior in rank, but far from ordinary people.  They were Australian, Anglo-French, Canadian, Scandinavian, East European and British.  They had been schoolteachers, journalists, artists, ship brokers, racehorse trainers and international businessmen. Each spoke several languages.

These men stood alongside courageous agents in training: encouraged them, assessed their character, and tried to teach them the caution and suspicion that might just keep them alive, deep in enemy territory.  But they did much more.  Many became agents themselves and displayed great bravery. 

All played a crucial role in the global effort to undermine the enemy.  We find them not only in the Baker Street Headquarters of SOE, but also in night parachute drops, in paramilitary training in the remotest depths of Scotland and in undercover agent training in isolated English country houses.  We follow them to occupied France, to Malaya and Thailand under threat of Japanese invasion, to Italy and Germany as they play their part in the collapse of the Axis regimes.  As we do so, we find a world of heroism and commitment so different from our own experience that it is scarcely believable.

Hardback

Leather coaster, cork backed.

Diameter 10cm / 4in