| AdminHistory | Records produced or used by De Beer during his wartime activities. During the First World War (1914-1918) De Beer trained in the Officers Training Corps in Harrow, and was accepted as an Officer in the Grenadier Guards. In 1918 he was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant, eventually serving in the Army of Occupation in Cologne.
During the Second World War (1939-1945) De Beer worked in the War Office General Staff on intelligence and propaganda, before forming the Nature Observation (Army) Committee, and was later transferred to the Psychological Warfare Division of SCHAEF. |