Eric Mockler-Ferryman
British army military intelligence officer (1896–1978)
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Brigadier Eric Edward Mockler-Ferryman CBE (1896–1978)[1] was a British army military intelligence officer who wrote the British official history of the Second World War between 1947 and 1952.[2][3] During the Second World War, Ferryman headed the German section of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), he was General Eisenhower's chief of intelligence in the run-up to Operation Torch,[4][5] and he ended the war with a transfer to the civilian Special Operations Executive (SOE).[6] He was awarded the Legion of Merit.[7]
Prior to the war, Mockler-Ferryman visited Australia. During this trip, he joined W.F Waters and the Victorian Rover Scouts on a tour of the Bogong High Plains during the winter of 1938. Following the trip, Mockler-Ferryman donated £300 towards the construction of the Bogong Rover Chalet in 1940.[8]