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
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