LHCMA Catalogue: Papers of Capt Albert Henry Lingen (1915-1974)

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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Papers of Capt Albert Henry Lingen (1915-1974)

LINGEN 1 Papers from Albert Henry Lingen's military training, 1940-1946

LINGEN 1/1 1940-1946

Papers from Albert Henry Lingen's military training including typescript sheets and manuscript notes on order of interrogation, documents, identifying by uniforms, German field divisions, German weapons and first aid; booklet on recognising enemy insignia; booklets, 'Soldiers speak-easy: French and German for the British Forces', London, 1942; 'First aid for fighting men', War Office, 26 May 1943 and 'Services guide to Cairo', Council for Welfare Work in Egypt. 14 items.

LINGEN 2 Papers relating to Albert Henry Lingen's service on the Allied Military Mission to Greece, at Grevena aerodrome. 91 items, [1943-1973]

LINGEN 2/1 1943 Dec

Booklet, List of Standard Packs, revised edition. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/2 1943 Dec-1944 Aug

Accounts book for the administration of the Pindus area, Greece, belonging to Maj Ronald R Prentice. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/3 [1943-1944]

Notes by Albert Henry Lingen taken in Grevena, Greece including notebook containing description by Lingen of his preparation to leave Italy and parachute into Greece; accounts and supplies; notes on carrying out explosions and radio messages. 7 notebooks and 32 pp. loose sheets.

LINGEN 2/4 [1943-1944]

Note in English and Greek by Albert Henry Lingen authorising the bearers to purchase motor vehicles, tyres, petrol and oil. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/5 [1943-1944]

Military instructions including manuscript routine orders for area one (Pendalophos) by Lt Col Edmunds; manuscript instructions for officers at dropping ground Mavronaioi, and typescript instructions on flare paths. 8 items.

LINGEN 2/6 [1943-1944]

Official and personal correspondence including radio messages, notably from Capt Arthur Edmonds, Capt H Arthur Wickstead and Maj Ronald R Prentice chiefly on the administration of the Grevena aerodrome. 42 items.

LINGEN 2/7 [1943-1944]

Papers in Greek comprising EAM (The National Liberation Front) propaganda leaflet; orders issued by ELAS (The National People's Liberation Army), 26 Jun 1944; poster containing a philosophical poem titled 'Golden lines' and criminal record for Georgos Paladizas. 4 items.

LINGEN 2/8 [1943-1944]

Report on the situation in area one (possibly Pendalophos). 5 ff. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/9 1944 Aug-Sep

Load lists of supplies dropped by aircraft on Grevena aerodrome. 6 items.

LINGEN 2/10 1944 Dec 14

News sheet Hellas published in Athens [for British soldiers in Greece], Sheet 9. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/11 1945 Jan 1

Press cutting from NZEF Times, 'Greece - test case of democracy' on the early stages of the Greek Civil War. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/12 [1945]

Handbook on Greece for British soldiers including phrasebook and information on Greek culture. 1 item.

LINGEN 2/13 1973

Typescript account by Albert Henry Lingen of his return to Grevena, Greece after the war. 1 item.

LINGEN 3 Papers relating to Albert Henry Lingen's service in Italy including Operation GELA BLUE, and establishing Allied Military Government in North East Italy, 1945-1946. 72 items, 1945 Mar-Dec

LINGEN 3/1 8 Mar 1945

List of dropping grounds, Vittorio Mento with instructions. 1 p.

LINGEN 3/2 [1945 Mar-May]

Notes by Albert Henry Lingen from Vittoria Venito including radio messages, notes on the Nino Nannetti Garibaldini Division and description of a raid on an enemy garage. Loose papers and two notebooks, 6 items.

LINGEN 3/3 [May 1945]

Manuscript report by Albert Henry Lingen of achievements of Nino Nannetti Garibaldini Division, an Italian Partisan group led by Col Francesco Pesce (Milo), 27 Apr-3 May 1945. 1 item.

LINGEN 3/4 1945 May 28

Testimonial by Albert Henry Lingen of the character of Col Francesco Pesce (Milo), leader of the Nino Nannetti Garibaldini Division, an Italian Partisan group, with particular mention of his attack on the Nazis 27-28 Apr 1945. 2 ff.

LINGEN 3/5 1945 Nov 4

Booklet in Italian Corpo Volontari Della Liberta, Cenno storico della divisione d'assalto Garibaldi "Nino Nannetti" with a personal message to Albert Henry Lingen from Col Francesco Pesce (Milo). 1 item.

LINGEN 3/6 [1945]

List of Italian partisans recommended by Lt Col McMullen for American awards. 2 ff.

LINGEN 3/7 [1945]

Manuscript radio messages to and from Albert Henry Lingen. Loose papers and 1 notebook. 50 items.

LINGEN 3/8 [1945]

Correspondence including letter to Col Francesco Pesce (Milo) in Italian, letter from P Cottrell, in Italian and letter from Albert Henry Lingen on topics including Milo and the Nino Nannetti Garibaldini Division and on the difficulties of his position in Vittorio Venito, particularly relating to his predecessor, Paul Brietsche,19 Apr 1945. 11 items.

LINGEN 4 Official and personal documents relating to Albert Henry Lingen. 31 items, 1940-1946

LINGEN 4/1 1940-1946

Official and personal documents relating to Albert Henry Lingen including award from the Italian Ministry of War, 30 Sep 1945; service and pay book; officers' release book; medical and inoculation certificates; transport papers; ration papers; vehicle documents; clearance sheet; passes; release papers and Lingen's wallet with photographs; ID card; business cards, Egyptian banknote and Nazi soldier's service book. 31 items.

LINGEN 5 Photographs, [1940-1946]

LINGEN 5/1 [1943-1945]

Photographs in Greece and Italy, including of Albert Henry Lingen and fellow British soldiers and of Italian and Greek partisans. 48 items

LINGEN 5/2 [1941]

Photographs of civil defence activities in Shrewsbury and a formal group photograph of servicemen, including Albert Henry Lingen. 4 items

LINGEN 5/3 [1945]

Photographs of a Lancia Astura presented to Albert Henry Lingen as a gift and photographs of Lingen's jeep. 6 items

LINGEN 6 Maps of Palestine, Greece and Italy. 10 items, 1940-1944

LINGEN 6/1 1940

Silk map of Bolzano, Italy, scale 1:500,000, Sheet L32/6, first edition, Geographical Section, General Staff No 3982, War Office.

LINGEN 6/2 [1940s]

Silk map of the Balkans, scale 1:2,000,000 with map of the Balkans and Turkey, Sheet 3 on the reverse.

LINGEN 6/3 [1940s]

Silk map of Venice, Italy, scale 1:500,000, Sheet L33/7, second edition.

LINGEN 6/4 [1940s]

Silk map of Italy, scale 1:1,378,000.

LINGEN 6/5 [1940s]

Silk map of the Balkans and Turkey, scale 1:1,750,000, Sheet 2 with map of the Balkans and Turkey, Italy and other surrounding countries, scale 1:3,000,000, Sheet 3 on the reverse.

LINGEN 6/6 1941 Apr 26

Cloth map of Greece and Albania, scale 1:1,000,000, Geographical Section, General Staff No 3884, War Office, reproduced by 512 Field Survey Company.

LINGEN 6/7 1941 May

Map of Haifa, scale 1:100,000, Sheet 1, Survey of Palestine. 2 items.

LINGEN 6/8 1943

Four maps of North East Italy including Belluno and Maniago, glued together and annotated, Scale 1:1,000,000, Geographical Section, General Staff No 4164, War Office.

LINGEN 6/9 1943 Apr

Map of Siatista, Grevena, Greece, scale 1:100,000, Sheet EV, reproduced by 512 Field Survey Company from Greek map, 1934.

LINGEN 6/10 1944 Mar

Annotated map of Grevena, Greece, scale 1:100,000, Sheet E 5, second edition, reproduced by No 1 Base Survey Drawing and Photo Process Office, from Greek map, 1934.

LINGEN 7 Testimonials and curriculum vitae. 5 items, 1945-1947

LINGEN 7/1 1945-1947

Testimonials and curriculum vitae including testimonials for Albert Henry Lingen by William H Bell, 27 Feb 1945, Lt Col R T Hewitt, 11 Jan 1946 and Brig J K Dunlop, 13 Jul 1946; testimonial by Lingen for Sterio Shovas for his service in Grevena and notes for Lingen's curriculum vitae. 5 items.