Has anyone come across a Captain McLean operating behind the lines in Italy in any capacity - either SAS or more likely SOE? Reputedly he was a...
It was just 4 miles long yet assumed a strategic importance wholly disproportionate to its size. The Corinth Canal was and remains a spectacle of...
Buried Kensal Green St Marys Cemetery,London Ashes interred in the same grave as Krystyna Skarbek. Andrzej Kowerski - Wikipedia [ATTACH]
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE, GM, Croix de guerre Buried Kensal Green St Marys RC Cemetery,London Krystyna Skarbek - Wikipedia...
Hi I recently obtained a certificate of lifelong membership of the Royal British Legion for a Major Rudloph Fox Burr, dated 1945. It is signed...
Hi, I'm trying to build a more detailed picture of D C Powell's service career. Background and questions below - any help much appreciated... In...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A well attended day at Cassino CWGC cemetery today, 16th May 2019, at the British Embassy organised...
We've just been notified of the death last week of Maurice Sutcliffe, who served with the Faughs in Tunisia and later again with SoE in...
This note is in fond remembrance of Margaret Ward who passed away recently, on 18th February. Then Margaret Pratt, she joined the First Aid...
An advertisement placed in the Times by Xan Fielding on 31 July 1950. Tough but sensitive ex-classical scholar, ex-secret agent, ex-guerrilla...
Special Operations Executive Memorial Plaque,64 Baker Street,London [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I am new to this forum. I am looking for any information about downed air crew who were aided by MI9 agents. The period in question is late 1944...
Has anybody details on this SOE Op ? Or details on HMS Trooper - Trooper sailed from Beirut on 26 September 1943, on her 8th War Patrol. This...
Hi, I am looking for assistance in finding out information about my recently deceased relative Genevieve Newman (nee Bartholomey). I know she...
A local man discovers that his father was a spy during the war. Man discovers father's WW2 spy past I can only find one book by the author (Chris...
This post is very similar to to the one I shared with you last week (view here:Thailand Dec.1941 - British Special Forces). In it, and based on...
I am currently researching for a new historical fiction novel, based around the Special Operations Executive during the second world war. I have...
My father, Captain John Crosthwaite Eyre (Personnel Number 134990), a RE and in SOE, was captured in Tunisia on January 29th 1943, leading a group...
My father, Captain John Crosthwaite Eyre RE and SOE, was captured in Tunisia on January 29th 1943, leading a group of saboteurs in a raid to...
Hi, I've been tracing my dad's WW2 covert activities whilst he was in Tunis. He was originally employed by the British consul and then loaned to...
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