Correspondence file

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

  • Reference
    • GB 133 TOW/2/6/4
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1951-1966
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folder

Scope and Content

Correspondents include:

  • James Wade,1 Feb 1966, who asks for further information about the withdrawal from White City, claims John Masters (111th Brigade) asked for battalion support at Blackpool strong point but never got it, and asks Tulloch to confirm it (he feels Masters is wrong); support from 14 Brigade, concerns that retreat north was slow, and more could have been done at Blackpool [Blackpool was the northernmost Chindit strong point].
  • Copy letter from Tulloch to the editor of The gunner 29 March 1951, giving an account of how Mountbatten had offered Wingate promotion before the "fly-in";
  • Cecilia Formann, 12 January 1958, concerning her late husband, Sgt Dennis Foreman, who worked on Wingate's HQ staff;
  • Christopher Sykes 14 Dec 1955, asking for assistance with his biography of Wingate; copy letter from Tulloch to Christopher Sykes, 20 December 1955, says he knew Wingate from Woolwich, and no longer in contact with Lorna Wingate, also mentions Peter Mead's "Chindit HQ" as a useful source;
  • copy letter Tulloch to Air Marshal Sir John Baldwin 6 March 1957, saying he told Sykes that he must contact Baldwin about Wingate;
  • Nigel Wingate, 17 November 1957 re. the Sykes biography and family news;
  • An appreciation of Major Agnes McGearey by Tulloch 1954, (McGearey was a senior nursing officer, who oversaw treatment of many Chindit sick and wounded in India; she also looked after Wingate during his illness in 1943).