National Archives - DEFE2 files
Primary tabs
Records of the Ministry of Defence files (DEFE)
More files at the National Archives referencing WW2 Commandos can be searched here [search the National Archives].
Ref | Report | |
DEFE 2 | 4 | No 4 Cdo, June / July 1944 |
DEFE 2 | 37 | No 2 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 37 | No 1 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 38 | No 3 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 39 | 3 Cdo,war diary records |
DEFE 2 | 40 | No 4 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 41 | No 5 Cdo - war diaries 1940-1944 |
DEFE 2 | 42 | No 5 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 43 | No 6 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 43 | No 7 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 44 | No 9 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 44 | No 8 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 45 | Holding Operational Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 10 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 12 Cdo - 1940 - 43 |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 14 Cdo - Nov 1942 - Aug 1943 |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 2 SS Bn - Nov 1940 - Mar 1941 |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 5 SS Bn - Dec 1940 - Feb 1941 |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 3 SS Bn - Nov 1940 - Feb 1941 |
DEFE 2 | 45 | No 4 SS Bn - Dec 1940 |
DEFE 2 | 46 | 4 Cdo Bde - Sept.1943 - Dec 1944 |
DEFE 2 | 47 | No 4 Cdo Bde |
DEFE 2 | 48 | 42 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 48 | No 48 R.M.Cdo - |
DEFE 2 | 48 | No 1 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 48 | No 41 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 49 | R.M. Engineering Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 49 | No 43 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 50 | 44 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 51 | 45 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 51 | No 46 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 52 | 47 R.M.Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 52 | No 48 R.M.Cdo - |
DEFE 2 | 53 | R.M. Sec G.H.Q. 2nd Echelon,21 Army Group |
DEFE 2 | 53 | No 1 SS Bde Signals troop |
DEFE 2 | 53 | HQ 3 SS Bde Nov 1943 - JUNE 1945 |
DEFE 2 | 53 | No 1 SS Bde |
DEFE 2 | 53 | Commando Wing GHQ. 2nd Echelon |
DEFE 2 | 54 | S.S.Bde |
DEFE 2 | 55 | S.S.Bde |
DEFE 2 | 56 | S,S.Bde GHQ.2nd Echelon |
DEFE 2 | 57 | S.S.Bde.(main),records and war diaries |
DEFE 2 | 58 | Combined Ops - war diaries |
DEFE 2 | 58 | No 3 Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 60A | Alpha index of events in HQ war diary |
DEFE 2 | 61 | Operation Abercombie |
DEFE 2 | 62 | Operation Abercombie |
DEFE 2 | 63 | Operation Abercombie |
DEFE 2 | 65 | Operation Acid Drop, Cartoon, Bristle,Sunstar |
DEFE 2 | 66 | Operation Anklet and Ambassador |
DEFE 2 | 73 | Operation Anklet |
DEFE 2 | 74 | Operation Anklet - photographs |
DEFE 2 | 80 | Operation Archery part 1 |
DEFE 2 | 81 | Operation Archery / 2 |
DEFE 2 | 82 | Operation Archery - photographs |
DEFE 2 | 83 | Operation Archery - narrative |
DEFE 2 | 85 | Operation Avalanche and others-reports |
DEFE 2 | 95 | Operations Blackcock,Bristle and others |
DEFE 2 | 98 | Operation Basalt and others |
DEFE 2 | 104 | Operation Bizerte |
DEFE 2 | 105 | Operation Blackcock - and others reports |
DEFE 2 | 109 | Operations,Branford, Dryad,Musketoon, Fahrenheit, Barricade,Aquatint, Basalt - photographs |
DEFE 2 | 111 | Operation Brassard |
DEFE 2 | 112 | Operation Brassard |
DEFE 2 | 122 | Operation Cartoon |
DEFE 2 | 125 | Operation Chariot / 1 |
DEFE 2 | 126 | Operation Chariot part 2 |
DEFE 2 | 127 | Operation Chariot part 3 |
DEFE 2 | 128 | Operation Chariot part 4 |
DEFE 2 | 130 | Operation Chariot vol 1 |
DEFE 2 | 131 | Operation Chariot |
DEFE 2 | 132 | Operation Chariot vol 3 |
DEFE 2 | 133 | Operation Chariot vol 4 |
DEFE 2 | 136 | Operation Chess,Chopper,Deepcut,Collar, Ambassador - reports |
DEFE 2 | 137 | Operation Chess and others |
DEFE 2 | 139 | Operation Chopper - reports |
DEFE 2 | 140 | Operation Claymore |
DEFE 2 | 141 | Operation Claymore - part 1 |
DEFE 2 | 162 | Operation Corkscrew |
DEFE 2 | 176 | Operation Devon and others - reports |
DEFE 2 | 198 | Operation Fahrenheit |
DEFE 2 | 205 | Operation Flipper,reports |
DEFE 2 | 208 | Operation Forfar |
DEFE 2 | 209 | Operation Forfar /1 |
DEFE 2 | 210 | Operation Forfar part |
DEFE 2 | 211 | Operation Forfar Vol 1 |
DEFE 2 | 212 | Operation Forfar Vol 2 |
DEFE 2 | 213 | Operation Forfar Vol 3 |
DEFE 2 | 236 | Operation Hardtack / 1 |
DEFE 2 | 237 | Hardtack / 3 |
DEFE 2 | 239 | Operation Hardtack / 5 |
DEFE 2 | 240 | Operation Hardtack part 6 |
DEFE 2 | 241 | Operation Hardtack / 7 |
DEFE 2 | 242 | Opwration Hardtack part 8 |
DEFE 2 | 243 | Operation Hardtack / 9 |
DEFE 2 | 244 | Operation Hardtack / 10 |
DEFE 2 | 245 | Operation Hardtack / 11 |
DEFE 2 | 246 | Operation Hardtack part 12 |
DEFE 2 | 247 | Opeation Hardtack part 13 |
DEFE 2 | 248 | Operation Hardtack / 14 |
DEFE 2 | 249 | Operation Hardtack - part 15 |
DEFE 2 | 251 | Operation Hardtack / 17 |
DEFE 2 | 252 | Operation Hardtack part 19 |
DEFE 2 | 254 | Operation Hardtack / 22 |
DEFE 2 | 254 | Opeation Hardtack part 16 |
DEFE 2 | 255 | Operation Hardtack / 23 and 25 |
DEFE 2 | 256 | Operation Hardtack / 26 and 27 |
DEFE 2 | 257 | Hardtack - parts 29,30,37,41,42,44 |
DEFE 2 | 268 | Communique - Sicily 10 July - 25 Aug 1943,memos ,Honours and Awards |
DEFE 2 | 307 | Operation Infatuate / 1 |
DEFE 2 | 308 | Operation Infatuate / 2 |
DEFE 2 | 309 | Operation Infatuate / 3 |
DEFE 2 | 310 | Operation Infatuate / 5 |
DEFE 2 | 311 | Operation Infatuate / 6 |
DEFE 2 | 312 | Operation Ironclad part 1 |
DEFE 2 | 313 | Operation Ironclad part 2 |
DEFE 2 | 314 | Operation Ironclad part 3 |
DEFE 2 | 315 | Operation Ironclad / 4 |
DEFE 2 | 316 | Operation Ironclad - maps |
DEFE 2 | 317 | Operation Ironclad / Vol 1 |
DEFE 2 | 318 | Operation Ironclad part 2 |
DEFE 2 | 319 | Operation Ironclad - part 3 |
DEFE 2 | 320 | Operation Ironclad |
DEFE 2 | 324 | Operation Jubilee part 1 |
DEFE 2 | 325 | Operation Jubilee - part 2a |
DEFE 2 | 326 | Operation Jubilee - part 2b |
DEFE 2 | 328 | Operation Jubilee Part 3 |
DEFE 2 | 329 | Operation Jubilee Public Relations |
DEFE 2 | 330 | Operation Jubilee - part 5 |
DEFE 2 | 332 | Operation Jubilee Vol 1 |
DEFE 2 | 333 | Operation Jubilee - part 2 |
DEFE 2 | 334 | Operation Jubilee part 3 |
DEFE 2 | 335 | Operation Jubilee part 4 |
DEFE 2 | 336 | Operation Jubilee - part 5 |
DEFE 2 | 337 | Operation Jubilee / 6 |
DEFE 2 | 338 | Operation Jubilee / 7 |
DEFE 2 | 339 | Operation Jubilee |
DEFE 2 | 342 | Operation J.V. |
DEFE 2 | 343 | Operation Kitbag |
DEFE 2 | 345 | Operation - KVH, Hardtack, Manacke |
DEFE 2 | 349 | Operation Flipper,Export,and translation of paper entitled The Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 364 | Operation Musketoon |
DEFE 2 | 365 | Operation Musketoon, Barricade, Aquatint |
DEFE 2 | 366 | Operation Myrmidan - photographs |
DEFE 2 | 367 | Operation Myrmidan |
DEFE 2 | 492 | Casuality and effect of fire support on Brit beaches in Normandy |
DEFE 2 | 510 | Operation Plunder / 1 |
DEFE 2 | 511 | Operation Plunder / 1A |
DEFE 2 | 512 | Operation Plunder / 2 |
DEFE 2 | 518 | Operation Postage Able |
DEFE 2 | 541 | Operation Rumford |
DEFE 2 | 554 | Operation Screwdriver |
DEFE 2 | 555 | Operation Shingle (Anzio landings) / 1 |
DEFE 2 | 556 | Operation shingle (Anzio landings) / 1A |
DEFE 2 | 557 | Operation Shingle (Azio landings) / 1B |
DEFE 2 | 558 | Operation Shingle `1C |
DEFE 2 | 559 | Operation Shingle /1D |
DEFE 2 | 560 | Operation Shingle photographs |
DEFE 2 | 569 | Operation Screwdriver and others |
DEFE 2 | 570 | Operation Sunstar |
DEFE 2 | 572 | Operation Talon / 1 |
DEFE 2 | 574 | Operation talon / 1B |
DEFE 2 | 575 | Operation Talon / 1C |
DEFE 2 | 576 | Operation Talon / 1D |
DEFE 2 | 579 | Operation Jubilee and other - reports |
DEFE 2 | 612 | Operation Tarbrush and others |
DEFE 2 | 650B | Code names for operations-places-dates |
DEFE 2 | 652 | Review of harbours- British channel and Appledore |
DEFE 2 | 653 | Arakan and Burma - ops-reports |
DEFE 2 | 655 | Burma campaign - reports |
DEFE 2 | 678 | Norway Ops - objectives and intelligence |
DEFE 2 | 680 | Combined Ops - report - Rhine crossing |
DEFE 2 | 681 | Assault on Wesel - battle study |
DEFE 2 | 692B | S.E.Asia Command - operations |
DEFE 2 | 694 | Small Scale Raids in Europe - alpha list |
DEFE 2 | 695 | Location of Combined Ops 1940-45,with code names,data etc |
DEFE 2 | 697 | History of Combined Ops H.Q. 1939-45 |
DEFE 2 | 699 | Early history of COPPs - notes, memo's,and interviews |
DEFE 2 | 700 | History of Comando in the Med. 1943-45 |
DEFE 2 | 701 | No 4 Cdo Bde - History |
DEFE 2 | 708 | Manual of Combined Ops |
DEFE 2 | 709 | Manual of Combined Ops |
DEFE 2 | 726 | Combined Ops - Navy and Army pers |
DEFE 2 | 748 | COPP. -depot trg book |
DEFE 2 | 762 | Combined Ops - Navy and R.M. officers -1943 |
DEFE 2 | 763 | List of Combined Ops - Naval and R.M. officers |
DEFE 2 | 766 | Small Operation Group - Handbook |
DEFE 2 | 787 | Raids and operations in Middle East - reports -1940 -41 |
DEFE 2 | 792 | Beach Org - policy and responsibility |
DEFE 2 | 808 | Combined Ops Trg Centre - Middle East - establishment, appointments, 1942 |
DEFE 2 | 815 | Combined Ops Trg Centre - Inverary- establishment,and objectives etc |
DEFE 2 | 816 | Combined Ops Trg Centre - Inverary- staffing etc |
DEFE 2 | 843 | Commando casualities,1940-45 - incomplete returns |
DEFE 2 | 849 | SS Bde-equipment,appointments,Standing Orders and instructions |
DEFE 2 | 851 | Honours and Awards - 1941-42 |
DEFE 2 | 875 | Org - fitting schemes of employed ships for hospital and carriers |
DEFE 2 | 899 | Bases - locations - arrangements and reports |
DEFE 2 | 929 | Beach Groups - change of name to Naval Cdo, standards and selection trg |
DEFE 2 | 943 | North (Fynn)Force - formation |
DEFE 2 | 946 | Combined Ops -badge design,production,and instruction for wearing |
DEFE 2 | 952 | R.M Boom Patrol Detachment - reports on operations |
DEFE 2 | 953 | R.M Boom Patrol Detachment - formation |
DEFE 2 | 957 | Small Scale Raid Force - procedures and responsibilities |
DEFE 2 | 960 | S.S.Bde - recruitment standards, - reorg , wearing of flashes |
DEFE 2 | 961 | R.N.Beach Cdo - complements,org, - reports and policy |
DEFE 2 | 965 | Dieppe Raid - reports - honours and awards |
DEFE 2 | 977 | History of 46 R.M.Cdo plusActivities of 10 IA |
DEFE 2 | 978 | Combined Operation badge,design production,wearing,abolition |
DEFE 2 | 979 | C.O H.Q.- historical records,war diaries,and record system org |
DEFE 2 | 1016 | No 10 IA Cdo - deployment of tps 1943 |
DEFE 2 | 1038 | R.N.Beach Cdo - stores,eqpt, pers, clothing and green beret |
DEFE 2 | 1066 | Maj.Gen R.E. Laycock,DSO. - papers |
DEFE 2 | 1067 | Foreign honours and awards issued to British pers |
DEFE 2 | 1068 | Comms - history of signals in Combined Ops |
DEFE 2 | 1078 | Canoes - type-design-reports of trials |
DEFE 2 | 1079 | Canoes - type-design-reports of trials |
DEFE 2 | 1080 | Canoes - type-design-reports of trials |
DEFE 2 | 1091 | Commando in action,- reports |
DEFE 2 | 1107 | 30 AU(S.E.U) , 30 Cdo , 30 AU. |
DEFE 2 | 1111 | C.O.P.P - Honours and Awards - progess report |
DEFE 2 | 1116 | C.O.P.P -History and reports |
DEFE 2 | 1117 | C.O Trg areas UK - requistion |
DEFE 2 | 1118 | Combined trg areas UK |
DEFE 2 | 1119 | Honours and Awards - recommendations |
DEFE 2 | 1123 | Honour and Awards USA |
DEFE 2 | 1134 | Trg policy for Cdo |
DEFE 2 | 1152 | C.O.P.P - progress report |
DEFE 2 | 1161 | Combined Ops HQ. organization etc |
DEFE 2 | 1189 | Beach Groups locations and reports |
DEFE 2 | 1198 | Honour and Awards recommendations |
DEFE 2 | 1214 | C.O.P.P. - Awards and Medals |
DEFE 2 | 1231 | 10 IA,report on Belgian andPolish tps in Italy |
DEFE 2 | 1257 | Small Operation Group - Org |
DEFE 2 | 1268 | 34 Amph Support Regt RM |
DEFE 2 | 1276 | Combined Ops -minutes of records -crossing the Rhine |
DEFE 2 | 1295 | 41 R.M.Cdo - Viscountess Davidson M.P. regarding recognition and Awards |
DEFE 2 | 1432 | Canadian Pers - Cdn offer of one complete Cdo and Beach Signal unit |
DEFE 2 | 1773 | History of Combined Ops Org 1940-45 |
DEFE 2 | 1775 | Bulldozer |
DEFE 2 | 1780 | Operation Torch - misc reports |
DEFE 2 | 1787 | Combined Ops - Navy and R.M. officers -July 1944 |
DEFE 2 | 1869 | Operation Baytown, Hooker and Ferdy |
DEFE 2 | 1893 | S.S.R.F - Policy,formations,and responsibility etc |
DEFE 2 | 2084 | C.O.P.P. - records |
DEFE 2 | 2108 | Combined Ops - for unit commandos - pamphlet No 9,R.A.M.C. |
DEFE 2 | 2119 | Arty in Combined Ops |
Ask Questions / Add Information / Add Photos
Use the Archive Forum for research enquiries, or to add information or photos. [register now].
Read some frequently asked questions here [FAQ's].
Read some frequently asked questions here [FAQ's].
Contact the Archive via the [contact form].
All content is researched and administered by the Commando Veterans Archive.