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Leonard (Major Terence James, 1890-1972) Intelligence Corps. An archive of documents, letters, pamphlets, photographs, watercolours, medals and ephemera relating to Major T.J. Leonard, WWI and WWII, including Total Intelligence or Studying Form. Essay on the German Character, by T.J. Leonard, several confidential reports bound together, 1943-44 (3 copies), a passport to enable travel to Russia, 1912 discharge certificate from the 28th London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) Territorial Army, 1915, commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps, 1915, and Lieutenant Army Officer Reserve, 1922 (with stamped signatures of George V), Intelligence Corps typescript Examination sheet, 2nd June 1917, several leaves in English and German manuscript, one detailing what information is required during night raids on enemy trenches, translations of captured letters, documents and letters relating to the Inter-Allied Administrative and Plebiscite Commission, Upper Silesia, 1922, medals comprising 1914-15 Star (3186. Pte. T.J. Leonard, 28-Lond & R,', British War and Victory medals (Lieut. T.J. Leonard), a small collection of regimental cap badges including Intelligence Corps and two Artists' Rifles (brass and white metal), plus other booklets, propaganda publications and related, together with a collection of 15 WWII watercolour and gouache paintings identifying various German uniforms, 1942-43, including Senior Sgt Major (staff) and Junior H Cpl, Infantry Private and SS Feldwebel (Sergeant), Private Tanks and S/M Artillery, Sgt Major Inf S.S, SS Unterscharführer - Corporal, Panzer division, German Air Force Pilot, Lieutenant Tank Regiment (peacetime), Trooper Tank Regiment, and others, all but one signed and dated by various artists comprising: G Higginson; J Thompson and G.H.H, all roughly 76.5 x 56 cm (30 1/8 x 22 ins) (Quantity: archive) Interesting archive of material from Major T.J. Leonard, Intelligence Corps in both World Wars. Terence Leonard spent three years working in Russia before the First World War, initially joining the Artists' Rifles before joining the Army Service Corps in Salonika and in 1917 the Intelligence Corps, where his chief work was as an examiner of German prisoners. After the war he became an Officer Interpreter for the Inter-Allied Plebiscite Commission in Upper Silesia, Germany from 1920-22, and afterwards lived in Paris until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he returned to England and joined the Intelligence Corps again, with the rank of Captain. He gave talks and produced pamphlets on the German character and enemy identification as well as the watercolours of German soldiers in uniform, which he used to illustrate in his talks. During an interrogation he acquired some fake buttons and a ring with a German cross from German prisoners trying to escape (items included in the archive). In 1944 he was transferred to the newly formed Education Branch of the Control Commission for Germany, analysing German textbooks, and from 1945-50 he wrote a number of articles for the British Zone Review.