Summary Guide

BAYNHAM, Brig Derrick Hubert (1924-2006)

3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

3.1.1 Reference code(s): GB99 KCLMA Baynham

3.1.2 Title: BAYNHAM, Brig Derrick Hubert (1924-2006)

3.1.3 Date(s): 1939-1942

3.1.4 Level of description: Collection

3.1.5 Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk or size): 1 volume

3.2 CONTEXT AREA

3.2.1 Name of creator(s): Baynham | Derrick Hubert | 1924-2006 | Brigadier

3.2.2 Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1924; educated St George's College, Weybridge; took part in the Dunkirk evacuations, 1940; joined SOE, 1942; in ranks till 1943; 2nd Lieutenant, 1943; commissioned into Royal Signals, 1945; Lieutenant, 1946; ADC to the Viceroy of India and the Governor of Burma; Captain, 1951; Major, 1958; operations officer to the Director of Operations in Cyprus, 1958-1960; Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, 1963; Lieutenant Colonel, 1966; commanded Signal Wing, School of Infantry, Hythe, 1966; Colonel, 1970; Brigadier, 1973; commander, 11 Signal Group (V), Liverpool, 1974; Chief Signal Officer, UK Land Forces, Wilton; retired 1979; died 2006.

3.2.3 Archival history:

3.2.4 Immediate source of acquisition or transfer:

Presented to the Centre by the family, Apr 2008.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

3.3.1 Scope and content:

Memoir of Brig Derrick Baynham, 1939-1942, including descriptions of assisting in the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940; work in the Local Defence Volunteers, 1941; Special Operations Executive (SOE) training, including resisting interrogation and handling explosives; preparation for mission to support agents in occupied France and identify targets for sabotage; account of the mission including encounter with Milice (Vichy police), liasion with sympathetic French locals in Limoges, recovery of radio transmission equipment from the Milice, establishment of permanent base station in Perigueux and return to England, 1942. Also accounts of the attempted rescue of the surviving crew member of a crashed British bomber off the coast of Anglesey, 1941, for which Baynham was awarded the George Medal, and account of his capture by German troops and subsequent escape, Germany, April 1945.

3.3.2 Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

3.3.3 Accruals:

3.3.4 System of arrangement:

One volume.

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

3.4.1 Conditions governing access: Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

3.4.2 Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

3.4.3 Language/scripts of material: English

3.4.4 Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

3.4.5 Finding aids:

No further finding aids.

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

3.5.1 Existence and location of originals:

3.5.2 Existence and location of copies:

3.5.3 Related units of description:

3.5.4 Publication note:

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Note:

3.7 DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

3.7.1 Archivist's note: Compiled by Katharine Higgon and Kate O'Brien.

3.7.2 Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

3.7.3 Date(s) of descriptions: April 2008; additional material August 2008.