Redmond Barton Cafferata - A Secret Agent in the Family
I remember seeing some of my great-grandfather's papers at my grandmother's house when I was a young boy, at least I saw the list of Swiss agents, it was the sort of thing that a young boy remembers, and it was an open secret that my great grandfather had worked for British Intelligence during World War 1, although the details were never discussed. I didn't see the papers for years afterwards until they were given to me by my father, along with many other family documents.
All the papers were loose except for two files, one relating to Redmond's work in Switzerland, the other to his work in Greece.
The other items that I have were loose, as were the rest of the documents, when I received them. I tried to put them into some sort of sequence and from that tried to summarise Redmond Cafferata's service in the Great War.
Biography of Remond Barton Cafferata, compiled from various sources. Photographs and scans of original documents passed doen in the family.
CONTRIBUTOR
Richard Cafferata
DATE
1916-03 - 1918-11
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
9
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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