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  <dc:title>Personal File of Colonel Giles</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Folder entitled "Personal 1928" chiefly containing correspondence with the War Office in London.  Comprises:

Correspondence with the War Office in London regarding Giles' examination for interpretership in French (dated 11 Feb 1928-19 Oct 1928)
Correspondence with the War Office in London, the Albanian Charg d'Affaires (in French) and the Foreign Office regarding Giles' receipt of the Insignia and Brevet of a Grand Officer of the Order of Skenderbeg. The Foreign Office later returned Giles award for diplomatic reasons. 
Bills for the Hotel de la Grande Bretagne in Athens and Kodak Ltd, Regent Street, London,  and letter (in French) from the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits regarding Mrs Giles travel on the Ostend-Vienna-Orient Express (Nov-Dec 1928)
Correspondence with Mr E Stavrides Banque Nationale de Grce, Athens, regarding "Sir Edward Law Street" in Athens (30 Sep 1928-10 Oct 1928
Memorandum for the guidance of military attachs (Oct 1928)
Report on the Greek army by Giles and correspondence regarding contributions to the annual report on Greece (dated 25 Apr 1928-10 Dec 1928)
Request to the War Office for Colonel Giles family to visit him in Belgrade, which was refused (Feb 1929)
Report on an audience with the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prior to relinquishing his post of military attach (dated 22 May 1929).
Copies of documents regarding the handover to Major WH Oxley MC RE as military attach to Belgrade and Prague and Colonel RD Goodden as military attach to Athens (Dec 1928-May 1929)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 Dec 1927 - 30 May 1929</dc:date>
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