Special Operations Executive

Discussion in 'SOE & OSS' started by Jedburgh22, Oct 24, 2010.

  1. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    Hi Jedburgh Will you please tell me what HS9 meens my wifes father was an S.O.E cant seem to find any listings for him he was Reginald Harold Everson M.M 2320992
    Kind regards Vince
     
  2. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

    Vince, HS 9 refers to the series reference number at the National Archives that contain SOE personal files.

    I've just checked but there isn't a file for Reginald Harold Everson - that does not mean he wasn't part of SOE, there are many staff members and agents who never had a formal personal file.


    Lee
     
  3. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    Thanks Lee
    i had a letter from the ARK.records saing tha i could find useful information in files No HS 5/728 HS 5/725 HS 5/726 AND HS 9/507/4 Please can you tell me how to go about this Thank you Lee Kind regards Vince
     
  4. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    From the file references it seems that he was part of the Operations on Crete, there is a DVD called 'The 11th Day' that deals with the Cretan Resistance and SOE. I can photograph the files for you at Kew if that would help.

    regards

    Steven
     
  5. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

    Thanks Lee
    i had a letter from the ARK.records saing tha i could find useful information in files No HS 5/728 HS 5/725 HS 5/726 AND HS 9/507/4 Please can you tell me how to go about this Thank you Lee Kind regards Vince

    File HS 9/507/4 is the SOE personal file for Patrick Michael LEIGH-FERMOR - born 11.02.1915. The file is still closed but can be opened if Leigh-Fermor is no longer with us by supplying a copy of his death certificate or published obituary.

    Lee
     
  6. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    Paddy Leigh Fermor is alive and well in Greece
     
  7. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

    Good to hear Steven!
     
  8. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    yes he was on Crete steven he was with patrick fermor i recall from an old paper cutting that i have he mentioned making powdered egg for Kriepes breakfast he got his m.m. for his time on Crete
    Regards Vince
     
  9. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    That would be great steven, and you are right Paddy is still alive in the penelopese
    I have a copy of the 11th day its so riveting i also have Reg's forged papers also one of the leaflets that the Germans dropped
     
  10. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    i also have a copy of the "This is your life" of Paddy in Greek, shows all the resistance also General Kriepe
     
  11. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    Thanks again Lee
     
  12. chubby60

    chubby60 Junior Member

    Thanks agian Lee your a diamond
     
  13. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    Because of the congestion over the Channel around D-Day the base for Lysander flights was moved westwards to Winkleigh Airfield in Devon.
     
  14. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    Well its generally a good day but sometimes you find something special - yesterday I found WO373/184 a Honours and Awards file mainly to Foreign members of SOE in folders as submitted to King George for signature, the interesting thing about the file is that awards for WWII were still being sorted out into the early 1950s. The file is huge almost 4gigs on my camera so will take a bit of formatting then I hope to sort the folios into national groupings for ease of location.

    Another interesting one is HS8/281 a file written at a very high level in 1944-5 on the future of SOE - The SOE Council had some political heavyweights on sides, people such as Harold Macmillan, Anthony Eden though Attlee seemed a bit anti!
     
  15. ladyz

    ladyz Junior Member

    Hi, i wonder if somebody can share a bit of light, i am doing some family research looking for my great uncle who was in fernando po in 1942, we now he participated in operation postmaster but no body saw or hear nothing else after that, having read all the information that come to my hands i see that acording to the spanish researchers he was the spanish soe agent who organized the party on the 14th of jan, but reading the information i have found published in england, the SOE agent who organized this party was captain richard lippet W25, which amazingly there is no information about him anywhere, he is only named on the 1943 gazete for receiving a condecoration.
    i now wonder if my great uncle and richard lippet could by any chance be the same person.
    maybe somebody does have a picture of richard lippett or any information that could help me trace my grate uncle?
    my father has spent most of his life looking for him and would make him so happy just to hear some information on what happened.

    thank you very much.
     
  16. sanglier

    sanglier Junior Member

    i now wonder if my great uncle and richard lippet could by any chance be the same person.


    On Ancestry.com Richard A. J Lippett is shown as travelling from Lagos to Liverpool arriving 31 March 1942 his contact address is Room 055A War Office Whitehall. He is shown as Scottish. There is a birth in Scotland (the only one) of a Richard Albert Lippett in Aberdeen in 1889 and Ancestry shows a death in Wandsworth of a Richard A.J. Lippett born about 1891 in June quarter 1962.
    There is also a reference to him travelling from Lagos in the 1920's.
    What is the name and date of birth of your great-uncle?

    John
     
  17. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    From Wilki. SOE agent Richard Lippett had obtained employment with the shipping company John Holt & Co (Liverpool), which had business offices on the island. Having taken up the post he started to make preparations for the raid. He became aware that the crew of the Duchessa d'Aosta were in the habit of accepting invitations to parties ashore and had held their own party aboard ship on 6 January 1942. Under the guise of a party-goer Lippett managed to gain information about the readiness of the ship for sea, crew numbers, and the watch arrangements.Operation Postmaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
  18. ladyz

    ladyz Junior Member

    hi, thanks for your reply and help, my great uncle was born as agustin zorrilla about 1911-1915, he lived between england and spain, we always heard that after operation postmaster he scaped to camerun and was given a new identity,all pictures letters or documentation relating to him also disapeared, it seams that, richard lippett was doing the same things at the same time, hence my confussion...or maybe my over reacting imagination ....but as much as i try i can not find any information from 1943.

    thank you again....
     
  19. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    A statue to Max Manus - SOE Agent and Saboteur par excellence was unveiled in Oslo on the 7th June - sad that the UK press did not cover the event.
     

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  20. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    The current series on Yesterday seems to have the fall of the Prosper Circuit as one of it's central themes - last nights episode on Henri Derricourt was a case in point. They tried to make a case for pre-arranged action in the arrest of Pickersgill, Macallister and Pierre Culioli - their arrest was the result of a routine police security check and it could be argued that the resulting roll-up of the circuit was due to good - basic police investigation of leads in captured documents and interrogation of the three captured agents. Thecommentary was unchecked - Gordon Gubbins instead of Colin and a George Medal instead of a George Cross to Noor Inyat Khan. The latter as MRD Foot rightly said should never have been sent into France as the Training Section headed by Col Spooner argued that she was unsuitable and lacked all sense of security - he was over-ruled by Buckmaster.
     

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