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MI7 Staff
MI7 Staff
Remembering the lives of people who worked for the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 7 (MI7). In February 1915 a Directorate of Special Intelligence was formed which in turn gave rise to MO7, a branch of the War Office concerned with press publicity. It was MO7 which gave the first war correspondents permission to visit the Western Front in May 1915, ensuring that the military authorities would maintain control over the correspondents' work. In January 1916, as part of a reorganisation of the Imperial General Staff, a new Directorate of Military Intelligence was created and MO7 became MI7. Military Intelligence Section 7 (MI7) was organised in a series of sub-sections distinguished by lower-case letters in brackets. The precise duties of these sub-sections varied with time, but may be roughly summarised as follows ... MI7 (a) - censorship. MI7 (b) - foreign and domestic propaganda, including press releases concerning army matters. MI7 (c) - translation and (from 1917) regulation of foreign visitors. MI7 (d) - foreign press propaganda and review (part of subsection (b) until subsection (d) was formed in late 1916).
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Born 1876
Died 1923
Indian Army Major 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force)
Indian Army Lieutenant Colonel 25th Cavalry
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Born 1882
Died 1956
British Army 2285 Serjeant Royal Warwickshire Regiment
British Army Captain Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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British Army Captain A Company Border Rifles
British Army Captain D Company Royal Air Force
British Army Flight Lieutenant D Company Royal Air Force
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British Army Lieutenant 11th Hussars
British Army Temporary Captain Head Quarters Staff
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Born 1893
Died 1971
British Army PS/940 Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army PS/940 Assistant Political Officer Iraq Civil Administration
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British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
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British Army Lieutenant Colonel Irish Rifles
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Born 1861
Died 1943
British Army Second Lieutenant Staff
British Army Second Lieutenant Volunteer Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Volunteer Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Staff Seconded to War Office - M.I.7B
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Born 1876
Died 1945
British Army Temporary Colonel/ Temporary Colonel Special List/ Staff
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British Army 58416 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army Second Lieutenant General List
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Born 1885
British Army Captain Worcestershire Regiment 4th worcest Battalion
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Died 1955
British Army Lieutenant Welsh Regiment 17 Service Battalion
Other Empire Force Captain MI7 Intelligence
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Born 1882
Died 1953
British Army Captain Royal Scots Greys Special Reserve Dragoons
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British Army Major Royal Fusiliers
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Royal Fusiliers
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British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment
British Army Lieutenant London Regiment
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British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
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British Army Lieutenant Army Service Corps
British Army Captain Army Service Corps army service corps 75th Unit
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Born 1878
Died 1957
British Army Captain Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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Born 1881
Royal Navy Lieutenant
British Army Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
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