Focus on
Olga Gray and the Woolwich Arsenal Spy Ring
In 1938, thanks to years of work by a remarkable female agent, MI5 ensured a package of British defence plans stayed secret.
Piece
Photographic Development Unit (PDU), later 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU);...
Catalogue reference: AIR 29/413
What’s it about?
This record is about the Photographic Development Unit (PDU), later 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU);... dating from 1939 Mar-1940 Dec in the series Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence: Operations Record Books, Miscellaneous Units. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AIR 29/413
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1939 Mar-1940 Dec
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
Photographic Development Unit (PDU), later 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU); based at Nancy (France), Heston, Wick and St Eval (UK)
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- IIM/FG10/1
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4100122/
Series information
AIR 29
Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence: Operations Record Books, Miscellaneous Units
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
878,265 records
11,134 records
You are currently looking at the piece: AIR 29/413
Photographic Development Unit (PDU), later 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU);...
You may be interested in
Read stories that share a catalogue subject with this record.
-
-
The story of
Anthony Blunt's confession
Security Service files paint a vivid picture of what happened when Anthony Blunt – then employed in the royal household – admitted spying for the Soviet Union. -
The story of
Karl Muller and the fatal lemon
When can a lemon have fatal consequences? If it proves you are, in fact, a wartime spy…
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.