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Intelligence Corps



16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme

1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets

11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment

10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens

9th February 1916 Call Ups

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There are:6585 items tagged Intelligence Corps available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.


Those known to have served with

Intelligence Corps

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Brennan Jeremiah. Lt. att. 1st Intelligence Corps (d.8th Aug 1918)
  • Fullerton-Carnegie MID,MC. George David Howard. 1st/7th Btn.
  • Garside Paul Hamilton Douglas. A/Mjr.
  • Mitchell CdG. George Balderson. Sgt. 8th Btn.
  • Stoton Henry Barnard. Capt.

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Sgt. George Balderson Mitchell CdG. 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment

George Mitchell came from Wilford, Nottinghamshire. As a Lance-Corporal in the Leicestershire Regiment he entered the France and Flanders theatre of war on 30th of July 1915. As a Sergeant with the 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, he served as a member of the Special Intelligence Police of the Fourth Army. As a Lance-Corporal in the Royal Fusiliers he was awarded the French Medal of Honour, 2nd Class in Silver with swords (London Gazette 29th January 1919). His last rank and unit on the m.i.c. is given as Acting Company Sergeant Major with the Royal Fusiliers. After the war, still working for military intelligence, he was employed in Barcelona, Spain, possibly in operations to track down military deserters, many of whom ended up in that neutral country.





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Capt. Henry Barnard Stoton Interpreter Corps

Henry Stoton was born 1867 in Ootacamund, a son of Colonel Thomas Henry Stoton of the Madras.N.I.& of Helen Dora Isabella Ricks. He was also great grandson of Major Henry Yarde (Hon. East India Co.) He married in 1907 to Ethel Latimer Brereton (born 1879 in Hong Kong).

Henry was an expert in the German language. In 1918 he served as Lt. in the Interpreter Corps. at Wakefield Prisoner of War Camp, Yorkshire. He died in Cologne in January 1922 and was buried in the Cologne Southern Cemetery, Nordrhein, Westfalen, Germany.

Rebecca Mayfield




220613

A/Mjr. Paul Hamilton Douglas Garside Intelligence

Paul Hamilton Douglas was born 05 Nov 1887 in USA (aka Peter Hammond) he was the eldest son of Thomas Douglas Hamilton Garside & Emma Mary Goldman, & elder brother of Robert Taylor Garside (7th City 22nd Manchesters)- both brothers were actually born in USA (UK census 1901 residence Broughton, Lancs.). Paul served 1904-1912 as Lance Corporal with the 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment. He then joined the Indian Police and rose to the rank of District Superintendent.

Paul was recalled, by his own account, in WW1 to serve in France as an Intelligence Officer & was promoted to Acting Major. After the war, he returned to the Indian Police. He married twice, firstly in Allahabad India in 1915 to Freda Constance Isobel Burgiss later at Pancras Middlesex England in 1933 to Hilda May Slade. He died 4th Nov 1955 in Essex.

Rebecca Mayfield




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Lt. Jeremiah Brennan att. 1st Intelligence Corps Lancashire Hussars (d.8th Aug 1918)

Jeremiah Brennan was the son of Joseph and Mary Brennan, of Bandon, Co. Cork; and husband of Florence Brennan, of Kinsealy Hall, Malahide, Co. Dublin. He served with the Lancashire Hussars, and was attached to the 1st Intelligence Corps. He died in France in August 1918 aged 26 and is buried in St. Hilaire Cemetery Extension, Frevent, France.

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212752

George David Howard Fullerton-Carnegie MID,MC. 1st/7th Btn. Black Watch

George Fullerton-Carnegie was wounded twice, mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross.

S. Flynn








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