| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Location | Intelligence Officer | 1940 | 1941 |
| Somerset | Intelligence Officer | 20 Oct 1940 | 23 Nov 1940 |
Minehead Modern School, Minehead, Somerset
Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, London
Kings College London (modern languages), Masters in German,
Doctorate at Heidelberg University, Germany
Enlisted in Army, 1939;
Commissioned, 1940;
Intelligence Officer, Auxiliary Units, General Headquarters Home Forces, 1940-1941;
Instructor, German Interrogation Course, Cambridge, 1941;
Posted to Middle East, 1941; Intelligence Officer, Headquarters 8 Army, Egypt and Libya, 1941-1942;
General Staff Officer 3, General Headquarters Middle East, and Headquarters 10 Corps, Jun-Sep 1942;
General Staff Officer 3, Headquarters 8 Army, 1942-1943; General Staff Officer 2, Instructor on War Intelligence Course, School of Military Intelligence, Matlock, Derbyshire, 1943-1944;
Served in North West Europe, 1944-1945;
Maj, General Staff Officer 2, Operational Intelligence, G2 Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), 1944-1945;
General Staff Officer 2, Tactical Headquarters 21 Army Group and Headquarters British Army of the Rhine, 1945;
Deputy Head of Political Intelligence Section, Headquarters British Army of the Rhine, 1945;
Demobilised, Dec 1945
Crick married Nora Atkins (WAAF) in 1941 in Chelsea. They had two children, Julia and Elizabeth. He died in Rye, East Sussex.
Prewar; Acting Vice Consul and Vice Consul, British Consulate General, Free City of Danzig, 1938-1939
Postwar;
Personal Assistant, Messrs Williams and Williams, Chester and London, 1946;
Senior Research Officer, Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1946-1948;
Joint Services Staff College, 1948;
Deputy Assistant Director, Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1950-1953; British Joint Services Mission, Washington DC, USA, 1953-1956;
Awarded OBE, 1956;
Assistant Director, Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1957-1963;
Imperial Defence College, 1960;
Counsellor, British Embassy, Washington DC, USA, 1963-1965;
Chairman, Joint Intelligence Staff, Cabinet Office, 1965-1968;
Assistant Director (Economic Intelligence), Defence Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1973;
Director of Economic Intelligence, Defence Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1970-1973;
Deputy Chief Adviser to Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, 1973-1978;
Publications: Die Persönlichkeit Johann Christian Günthers (Heinrich Fahrer, Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim, Germany, 1938); translation, with Douglas Scott and R F C Hull, of Existence and being by Martin Heidegger (Vision, London, 1949); translation, with E E Thomas, of Ostasien denkt anders (The mind of East Asia) by Lily Abegg (Thames, London, 1952); In the caves of the mind. Poems by Alan Crick (Privately published, Rye, Sussex, 1992).
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