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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Jacques Edmond Charles MEFFRE, alias Victor John Edouard HOWARD. A highly decorated...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/3773
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This record is about the Jacques Edmond Charles MEFFRE, alias Victor John Edouard HOWARD. A highly decorated... dating from 1943 May 19 - 1946 Oct 02 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/3773
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943 May 19 - 1946 Oct 02
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Description (What the record is about)
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Jacques Edmond Charles MEFFRE, alias Victor John Edouard HOWARD. A highly decorated French army officer in the First World War, Commandant MEFFRE was appointed Chief of Security at the headquarters of the Free French Forces in London in 1940. He became involved in, and may have joined, a plot against the head of the Free French Navy, Admiral MUSELIER. As a result - though he was not prosecuted - MEFFRE was interned for the duration of the war
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 55727 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2014
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14206420/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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