Thursday, 19 November 2015

Evan, Lord Tredegar : Court Martial : 19 April 1943 : The Charges Against Viscount Tredegar

CHARGES AGAINST EVAN, VISCOUNT TREDEGAR
OFFENCES AGAINST THE  ARMY ACT AND THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT

FROM 1943
NATIONAL ARCHIVES FILE WO71/1078
(  Army Number 414702 )

Full details  are also in the book Aspects of Evan, the last Viscount Tredegar 


[ Evan Morgan was in the Royal Corps of Signals attached holding Battalion, Scots Guards. He also held the post of Honorary Colonel in  the Monmouthshire Regiment



CHARGE  1 : The first charge was laid under Section 41 of the Army Act.  When on active service committing a civil offence, that is to say unlawful communication of information contrary to Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, in that you, at Ipswich on or about 4th February 1943, having in your possession information as to carrier pigeon operations in enemy occupied territory which you had obtained owing to your position as a person holding office under His Majesty unlawfully communicated the same to Herbert Edward Keys and divers other civilians then present who were not persons to whom you were authorised to communicate it nor persons to whom it was in the interests of the State your duty to communicate it. 

CHARGE 2: The second charge is laid under Section 40 of the Army Act.  When on active service conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in that you, at London on or about 3rd February 1943, when Officer Commanding Special Section, Carrier Pigeon Service, improperly informed Major C. Cassidy, M.C., Royal Army Medical Corps, who was then visiting your office that certain pins then affixed to a map of part of north-west Europe on the wall of the said office indicated localities connected with operations involving the dropping of carrier pigeons by parachute in enemy occupied territory. 

CHARGE 3: The third charge is laid under Section 41 of the Army Act. When on active service committing a civil offence, that is to say unlawful communication of information contrary to Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 as amended by the Official Secrets Act 1920, in that you, at London on 15 March 1943, having in your possession information as to carrier pigeon operations in enemy occupied territory to which you had access owing your position as a person holding office under His Majesty unlawfully communicated the same to Nora McIntyre and Helen Margaret Isherwood, who were not persons to whom you were authorised to communicate it nor persons to whom it was in the interests of the State your duty to communicate it. 

The JUDGE ADVOCATE STATED: The charges are signed by Lt.-Col. Bland at Chelsea on the 13th April 1943.  He commands the Holding Battalion of the Scots Guards.

The charge sheet is endorsed “To be tried by General-Court Martial” and was signed by Col. G. M. Cox, A.A.G., for the Lieutenant-General Commanding London District at London on the 15th April 1943.   


Evan's Court Martial was convened at Chelsea Barracks on 19 April, 1943. He was found guilty on charges 1 and 3 and severely reprimanded.  

The history fraudsters led by Wales on Line paint an absurd story of Evan being freed from Court Martial by MI 5.  Such lies are a poor reflection on  a news media that expects to be taken seriously. Despite pointing out the true narrative relating to Evan's humiliating war Wales on Line remain silent.



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Friday, 13 November 2015

Lord Evan Tredegar : Damaging Effect of the Lies by the History Fraudsters

LIES  TOLD  ABOUT  EVAN, VISCOUNT  TREDEGAR

  Damaging  Effect  of  the Lies by  the  History Fraudsters

Part 1 ( of 2)

RE:   EVAN  AND WORLD  WAR 2  :  CARRIER PIGEONS

THE WORK OF MI 14 AND EVAN MORGAN’S  EVENTUAL DOWNFALL



Captain ( Acting Major) The Viscount Tredegar
Royal Signals Corps
  
This is part  of a series of  postings  highlighting  the  doctoring of facts on Evan Frederic Morgan ( 1893-1949),  4th  Lord Tredegar,  2nd Viscount Tredegar  of  Tredegar House, Newport.  

The savaging of the truth about  Evan, Lord  Tredegar  by   history  fraudsters  creates  a damaging effect and  a bad influence  upon those   in  particular who are public  visitors to the house  and who genuinely wish to know and deserve  the truth about past exploits of the Morgan family and the incumbents of  Tredegar House - the   Morgan seat in Newport, now  run  by  the National Trust.  

These postings aim to correct  the tissue of lies  perpetuated by the history fraudsters regarding Evan’s exploits during World War 2 ( WW2).

1943 :  Captain Evan, Lord Tredegar , an acting Major in the Royal  Signals Corps attached to  MI 14  Arrested and   Charged with  Breaches of the Official Secrets Acts



Official file in National Archives  WO 71/1078 
on Evan's Court Martial


The  actual  historical / chronological  facts  are clear and simple and supported  by documentation  from indisputable sources.

In 1943 Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar of Tredegar House, Newport, South  Wales was a  Captain  ( acting Major )  in the Royal Signals Corps, attached to MI 14, a branch of  the Intelligence Services  based at Wing House, Piccadilly, in London’s West  End.   This  section of the army dealt with the use of  carrier pigeons by the military.

Pigeons were used  in past wars  to carry  important, coded messages.  In  WW2  they were requisitioned for use  in a number of ways by the  British Army, the RAF  and also the Resistance in Holland and the Low countries. The messages were carried in special coloured containers on the legs of the birds or pouches on their  backs.

Evan’s  lowly  job  was   largely a desk bound one,  but it included  liaison with  the   pigeon  fanciers/ breeders in Southern  England. This  task involved some travel to meet  the men  who had given up their precious birds, moreover Evan was expected  to  keep  the breeders’  morale up, since  the mortality of the average bird was  high.

Evan was a  man who enjoyed being  at the centre of  attention  and  revelled in sounding off  about his own  importance.  In the course of   ‘acting big’  he was  careless about giving  secret  information about the work of  MI14  to several people  who were not entitled to have it, this included a group of pigeon breeders in Ipswich ( when  Evan was visiting  there for a meeting). He was also negligent in what details  he passed on  to  a fellow officer  who was a member of  the Royal Medical Corps. There were additional  disclosures made by Evan  to   two  girl guides – who were  on a  PR visit to Wing House – this information was  about  the meaning of some  positions flagged  up  on an operations map hanging up in  one of the rooms.

Evan was  overheard  making  the various careless remarks about his work, he  was reported  and  charged with three offences under the Official Secrets Act. He was tried and sentenced and found guilty on two of the three charges and ‘severely reprimanded’.  


Evan's Court Martial : Sentence and Punishment
" severely reprimanded"

The full story  is told in  the book  “ ASPECTS OF EVAN : THE LAST VISCOUNT TREDEGAR.  ISBN 9781905914159.   This book contains a complete  transcript of the Court Martial and the  sentence passed.     This disgrace led to Evan eventually leaving the army giving a leg injury as the reason.






Despite the official  records –  and  published sources  based on the  War Office  files  in National Archives  and these files  being  completely accessible and  available  in the public domain there are  still  LIES  and NONSENSE  told  about Evan  in  this  period albeit  a  humiliating episode in Evan’s  army career.  Enough is enough!  The  lies told are reprehensible and  unacceptable. They have been  fuelled  from time to time by  newspaper articles  such as in  the  news  archives of  Wales On Line. 

This doctoring of history  – and leaving damaged history uncorrected  is a  bad reflection on the integrity  of  a Welsh  publication produced  by a  major news  organisation that wishes to be taken seriously about  recording true  facts and  ensuring accuracy  on its telling of  Welsh  and British history. 

Despite having pointed matters out regarding  the inaccuracies   (  that have now been published  at least twice in the last two years ) the Editor of  Wales on Line,  has not had the good grace ( to date)  to acknowledge a  letter sent over a week ago. This is shameful, especially since they know they are culpable.

Beware the surrogates of the  history fraudsters who bathe Evan in a sort of romantic, heroic  glory under the banner of what they call news and history and a good copy for what is deemed  a better story than the truth. That cannot be right or acceptable history.

Evan’s  history warrants the unvarnished  truth,   readers of newspapers like  Wales on Line  and visitors to  Tredegar House  deserve the truth too.  Those who find the lies just a better story to tell on line or  to relate to visitors at Tredegar House  are equally shameless and dishonest. The National Trust  should monitor this rot and expunge any false stories. 


Part  2  to follow.

Any queries please contact Evan's biographer William Cross, by e-mail