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. ”

4 May 1945. Foolscap page, typescript carbon copy with handwritten addition and corrections in ink. Titled as above, then followed by seven (7) typescript sections, the first with the handwritten addition pertaining to navel assets. Document is signed in ink at lower left: “B.L. Montgomery/ Field Marshal/ 4th May 1945/ 1830 hours.” Names typed in descending order at right bottom: Friedeburg, Kinsel, Wagner, Pollok (sic), Friedl.

Note: This draft does not contain the signatures of the German officers. Handwritten sections indicate slight variances of spacing and spelling not present in the fully signed copy retained in the collection of The Imperial War Museums in the UK. Additionally the typescript names of the German signatories are absent in the Imperial War Museum’s copy, which must be regarded as the final executed draft.

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.