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31 March 1944 Part 3

Summary

Reorganisation of Secret Field Police on the islands

Location Details

St Malo; Granville

Diary Entry

31 March 1944 Reorganisation of Secret Field Police on the islands

Editorial note: The report gives the organisational change but no individual effective date.

The Channel Islands Special Detachment, Secret Field Police Group 161, was dissolved. The detachments employed on the islands were attached directly to Secret Field Police Group 644. The special detachment’s main office in St-Malo remains as an outstation of Secret Field Police 644; its Granville outstation is being dissolved.

Source of Information 

T-312 Roll 1570, Seventh Army records. Supplied English translation T312_R1570_English_Translation.docx. PDF pages 602–610; January–March counterintelligence activity report. Selected island-related extract; PDF page numbers refer to the source reel as numbered in the supplied translation.

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