Sharing the Secret by Nick van der Bijl

Author:Nick van der Bijl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JWKF: HIS000000: HISTORY / General
ISBN: 9781473831766
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Short Service engagement should be accepted as a stop-gap – a temporary expedient to meet the needs of the moment … It is possible that at some future date the Intelligence Corps will continue only on a reserve or Territorial Army basis’.

On 3 January 1946, the War Office committed to the Intelligence Corps existing as a reserve of about 320 officers and 260 other ranks receiving periodic training at the School of Military Intelligence, by attachments and by filling intelligence appointments on exercises. Staff intelligence appointments would be filled by officers from any arm. That most FS sections were not commanded by Intelligence Corps officers meant the vital esprit de corps developed very slowly, although the Intelligence Corps Comrades Association, which had been formed in October 1941, provided linkages. Its members collected about £1,500 for a Corps Chapel. The word ‘Comrades’ was dropped in 1964. Templer’s remarks were reflected in the January to June 1946 Corps Newsletter:

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