Coloured map with dated locations of TAC 21 Army Group HQ indicated in alternating black and white ink of route leading from Normandy D-Day landing sites to Luneburg, Germany. TAC 21 HQ was Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery’s HQ. Luneburg Heath in near Hamburg in NE part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany.
Placed over the map are: 1. small Royal Union Flag (Union Jack); 2. Title Card with Lt. Col Trumbull Warren’s hand-printed text; 3. Typed page with locations of TAC 21 Army Group, 1944-45; 4. Six (6) file cards inscribed with nicknames and signatures of TAC 21 Headquarters’ Staff members; 5. Original Carbon copy draft of the Instrument of Surrender of All German Armed Forces in HOLLAND, in Northeast Germany including all islands and in DENMARK.
(Four listed items are accessioned separately. Item 2 is part of this accession)
All items given to Lt. Col. Trumbull Warren, OBE, ED by Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL. Warren was Field Marshall Montgomery’s Personal Assistant in the TAC 21 Army Group HQ from January 1944 to the end of the war. Title card with Lt. Col Trumbull Warren’s hand-printed text. “This map shows the route of the Tactical H.Q. 21 Army Group from D-Day 6 June, 1944 to V-E Day 9 May. 1945. TAC was the small H.Q. where Field Marshal Sir B.L. Montgomery G.C.B., D.S.O., directed and controlled the battle. This flag was flown by Montgomery on his car on V.E. Day.”