Hi, I am looking for information about this SOE operative, apparently stationed in Stockholm från around december 1943 and to the end of the war. He seems to have worked with the parachute people in Denmark but that is about all I know. He wasn't very fond of Fleming Muus it seems. In some later documents its seems he is called John Riddell. He was born in 1910 in London. When I search the Kew website I don't get any hits. Grateful for any help.
I have no information about his activities in WW2, but maybe this could be him from records on ancestry. John Archibald RAY born West Norwood London Oct-Dec 1910 birth registered Oct-Dec 1910 Lambeth Registration District, London baptised Feb 12th 1911 St Lukes West Norwood. father George Oscar RAY born 1885/6 France (Resident) a swiss national. employed as a cashier at Foreign Bankers mother Jessie Ray (nee STRAW) born 1881/2 Sheffield, Yorkshire married 1906 Bootle, Liverpool family living in 1911 at 1 Royal Circus, West Norwood, London. Siblings: Jessie Ida born 1907/8 & Eric George Oliver born 1908/9. Both born Stamford Hill London. This could be him in later life: 1939 poss at 19 Glan Arbr Park, Chester (dob 19.10.1910) as agricultural engineer, married to Asenath (nee Hill) dob 27.5.1913), poss married 1938 in Wirral Registration District ancestry gives suggested link to several vovages by a John Archibald Ray of the right age: of 10 Roosevelt Drive, Aintree, Liverpool 9, assistant in the Jonathan Holt & Co Shipping Company sailing for Duala, West Africa in 1936, one of the companies ships. of 122 Old Brompton Road, London, to Mombassa May 1946. He is a farmer of 130 Queens Gate, London, a farmer, on a ship returning from Mombassa in July 1946. a John Ray in 1948 leaves UK for Buenos Aires, to settle in Brazil.
National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914: First name(s) John A Last name Ray Birth date 19 Oct 1910 School name Dovedale County Primary School, Herondale Road Admission year 1916 Discharge year - Town Allerton Parent's first name(s) George O Parent's last name Ray Book type Admissions & Withdrawals County Lancashire First name(s) John A Last name Ray Birth date 19 Oct 1910 School name Longmoor Lane County School Admission year 1918 Discharge year - Town Liverpool Parent's first name(s) George Parent's last name Ray Book type Admissions & Withdrawals County Lancashire First name(s) John Archibald Last name Ray Birth date 19 Oct 1910 School name Liverpool Collegiate School Admission year 1922 Discharge year - Town Liverpool Parent's first name(s) Geo Oscar Parent's last name Ray Book type Admissions County Lancashire
I have confirmed that the 10 Roosevelt Drive address is correct, as it is on his sister Ida's nursing records & shipping passenger lists for his father Georges (George).