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2 May 2024

Chicksands Military Intelligence Museum

Chicksands Military Intelligence Museum

June 21 | 14:00 - 17:00

Military Intelligence Museum

Discover what military intelligence is, what it does and how it is done.

The Military Intelligence Museum at Chicksands exists to collect, conserve, record, interpret and make otherwise accessible artifacts, documents and other material relating to the Intelligence Corps and wider military intelligence activity, including the Special Operations Executive in WW2 and the Medmenham Collection of military photographic interpretation and imagery analysis. 

Learn the stories of the people who make it happen, the tools of the trade, the stories behind the artefacts, the documents, photographs, artworks and medals. 

Old Bedfordians have many links with the SOE during WW2 and in 1940 Sir Frank Nelson (1893-1897) was appointed as its first chief by order of the War Office.

David Maitland Makgill Crighton (1925-33) had worked in Albania for 12 months as freelance journalist before he was recruited by Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1941. It was planned to send him to Albania but he was lost aboard the SS Jonathan Holt on the way.

Captain Frederic ‘Fritz’ Peters VC (1900-01) was an expert in sinking ships and submarines and was chosen to be an Instruction Leader at the SIS special sabotage school north of London.

Captain Harold ‘Mike’ Andrews (1911-14) worked for the SIS for many years specialising in aerial reconnaissance and photography. He was sent to Portugal as an Air Attache and helped with the repatriation of downed airmen escaping across the Pyrenees.

Charles Bovill (1918-25) was a radio expert and during WW2 worked for the SOE and invented the S-Phone.

We would love to invite OB’s, Past Parents and Current Parents to join us for a free tour of the Museum. 

 

Venue

Military Intelligence Museum
Chicksands
Shefford, Bedfordshire SG17 5QB United Kingdom + Google Map
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