- SURNAME
Sissmore
- FORENAME
Kathleen Maria Margaret (Jane) (Miss)
- UNIT
MI5 (i/c of the Registry and Controller of Women Staff)
- RANK
Civilian
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Member of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
1923
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 11.3.1898 Bengal,India
daughter of John Edmund Angelo and Kathleen Maud (nee Forbes-Smith) Sissmore
educated Princess Helen's College,Ealing
MI5 1916 (clerk)
MI5 (i/c of the Registry and Controller of Women Staff) 1922
barrister (called to the Bar 1924)
MI5 (B Division - Chief expert of Soviet Affairs) 1929-40 (First MI5 female officer)
SIS (MI6) (Irish Section,Section V) 1940-44
SIS (MI6) (Section IX) 1944
MI5 (C Division) 1944-45
married Wing Commander John Oliver Archer 1939 (1887-1968) (liaison officer between RAF and MI5)
died September 1982 Dorset
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