Typescript letter, 11 Aug 1944.
Letter of congratulation sent to Lt Groom by Maj Gen Robert Laycock, Chief of Combined Operations, Combined Operations Headquarters, Whitehall.
From a collection of papers, 1942-1944.
Associated with Lt John Arthur Groom, Combined Operations Experimental Establishment, Royal Engineers.
Papers primarily relate to the award of the Military Cross to Lt Groom for his part in Operation TARBRUSH, 16-17 May 1944, a covert reconnaissance of beach mines and obstacles prior to the D-Day Landings.