Audiotape and typescript transcript of reminiscences by Colin Hercules Mackenzie of his service with the Special Operations Executive in southeast Asia during the Second World War, in conversation with Franklin Gollings on Saturday November 29th, 1986, at Kyleakin, Island of Skye

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Scope and Content

Also includes a typescript memorandum about the conversation written by Professor D. Dilks, 26 April 1988, 2 ff. typescript

Administrative / Biographical History

Colin Mackenzie was educated at Eton and Cambridge. In the First World War he served in the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards and was wounded in 1918. During the Second World War he served in India from 1941 to 1945. He was a director of J.& P. Coats Ltd, 1928-1946

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Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Franklin Gollings through Professor D. Dilks, May 1988

Note

In English

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