This is Your Life.

SOE and Resistance Connections
Hugh Oloff De Wett 8 Apr 1956
Sue Ryder 12 Nov 1956
Duncan Guthrie 4 Feb 1957
Alfred Southon 30 Mar 1959
Francoise Rigby 2 Nov 1959
Sefton Delmer 8 Jan 1962
Albert Guerrisee (Pat O'Leary) 28 Nov 1963 & 5 Dec 1963
Freddy Spencer-Chapman 2 Jan 1964 & 9 Jan 1964

 

Menday,
Ronald Philip

From Bletchley.
03.01.1913
-
01.2001
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Cadet
?
2nd Lt.
25.05.1940 [132152]
WS/Lt.
?
WS/Capt.
01.11.1941
T/Maj.
06.07.1943-(04.1944)
WS/Maj.
29.10.1944
A/Lt.Col.
? (reld < 04.1946)
Hon. Maj.
< 04.1946
MBE
01.01.1968
New Year 68: for service as Warden, Turner's Court Children's Home, Oxford
MC
01.03.1945
NW Europe
MID
03.08.1944
NW Europe (special operations)
MID
22.03.1945
NW Europe



Officer Cadet Training Unit
25.05.1940


commissioned, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [emergency commission]
c. 04.1943
-
c. 08.1944
No. 4 Commando (initially A Troop Commander, later Second-in-Command) (UK, Normandy)
[commanded "Menday Force" on some raids in 12.1943; took over command of the Commando when the CO was wounded in Normandy 06.06.1944]
(04.1945)


Commander of 2 Commando Brigade Training Wing
Warden, Turner's Court Children's Home, Oxford, 1960's. British Army Officers 1939-1945  -- M

 

SOE and Resistance Connections
Hugh Oloff De Wett 8 Apr 1956
Sue Ryder 12 Nov 1956
Duncan Guthrie 4 Feb 1957
Alfred Southon 30 Mar 1959
Francoise Rigby 2 Nov 1959
Sefton Delmer 8 Jan 1962
Albert Guerrisee (Pat O'Leary) 28 Nov 1963 & 5 Dec 1963
Freddy Spencer-Chapman 2 Jan 1964 & 9 Jan 1964


Nice one Steven, I did see some resistance names on the list,but it hasnt been sent onto me yet,.Any info you have on these people that could form the basis of BIOGRAPHICAL page for the website would be most helpful.

 

Lieutenant-Commander Timothy J. Cain, HMS Electra. London: Frederick Miller Ltd, 1959, ISBN 0-86007-330-0. Lieutenant-Commander Cain (then a Warrant Officer Gunner, "Guns") was the senior surviving officer of Electra, which was sunk in action with the Japanese on 27 February 1942.Dervish Convoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And there's more! HMS Electra crew members

 

The Rome Escape Line. The story of the British organization in Rome for assisting escaped prisoners-of-war, 1943-44. With plates, including portraits [Unknown Binding]

Samuel Ironmonger Derry The Rome Escape Line. The story of the British organization in Rome for assisting escaped prisoners-of-war, 1943-44. With plates, including portraits: Amazon.co.uk: Samuel Ironmonger Derry: Books

 

One from Stevens list Sefton Delmer and another, Our Founder · About Us · Sue Ryder Care

 

You are both a mine of information. your hard work will not go unmentioned on the site.

 

• Cooke, Kenneth
  Carpenter
  Lulworth Hill
  19 Mar — 7 May 1943
  L.G. — 7 Dec 1943
  Ll.W.M. (Ll.L., 7 Nov 1944)
  [Lulworth Hill torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine da Vinci (Gazzana-Priaroggia, G.) on 19 Mar 1943 at 10°10’S 01°00’E.] BBC - WW2 People's War - Merchant Navy High Gallantry Awards ALSO, "What Cares the Sea?" by Kenneth Cooke, published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960.
• ^ BBC @ The Living Museum (10 July 2005). "Merchant navy standard". WW2 People's War. BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/64/a4415564.shtml. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
• ^ Curiously, despite the book being written 17 years after the events, Cooke explicitly writes that the submarine was a U-boat and that the captain and crew were Germans. Cooke claims to have climbed on to the submarine's decks along with many other survivors and talked to the captain. He states that after taking only one man, Hull, on board as a prisoner, the submarine then dived washing all those clinginging to its decks overboard and killing one survivor with the submarine's propellor. Cooke accuses the "German" captain of then deliberately ramming a life boat containing other survivors, but not of machine gunning them. SS Lulworth Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The chaps at BigRed are going to be over the moon with this.

 

Another of Steven's, hope you dont mind........ but there is nothing on tv Special Forces - Roll Of Honour - Gallery - Duncan Guthrie Undercover, the men and women of the ... - Google Books

 

Keep going mate,your really being a big help. Im wrapped up in my writing at the moment,so didnt have a whole lot of time,thats why I threw it open to you guys.

 

10. Percy Flood Soldier, prisoner-of-war and charity organiser

 

Hugh Oloff de Wet was born in Jersey in April 1912, the son of a naval officer, and a descendant of both Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, the Boer general, and Jacabus de Wet, Court Painter to James I of England. He was educated at Monkton Combe and Bruges, before joining the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. During the 1930s, he worked in intelligence in Abyssinia, posing as a freelance reporter, and also served as a pilot in the war against Italy. De Wet then fought in the Spanish Civil War - he first offered his services to Franco, who turned him down, so he flew fighter planes for the Republicans instead. He wrote up his experiences in Cardboard Crucifix (1938), and then went off to Prague to spy for the French Deuxième Bureau, reporting on the movement of German troops.
More here.............see chapter 6 severed heads paragraph 5 Home - Under Milk Wood

 

10. Percy Flood Soldier, prisoner-of-war and charity organiser

Percy Flood was a regular soldier - a Major in the Royal West Kents - a former regimental sergeant major who had been commissioned early in the war. He was a man of deep religious faith - a person respected by others whether or not they shared his faith.
It was Percy Flood with whom the Brunswick Story properly begins. It was in his times of quiet reflection on the circumstances in which he found himself living and his thoughts of the future when captivity would end, that Percy conceived the idea that the prisoners of Oflag 79 should create a memorial which would show the world outside that the time spent in the camp was not wasted. In other words he wished to see the "Kriegies" of Brunswick bring good out of evil - to create something that would be a reminder of the comradeship experienced in the camp during a long period of enforced idleness, deprivation and discomfort.
Percy's idea, vision if you like, took shape - he reasoned something like this. "Here we are citizens of circumstances that our not of our own choosing. Our surroundings are sordid, sanitation is primitive, we are crowed together in bomb damaged buildings, there is little opportunity for exercise and at this time we are hungry and cold". "But", he went on, "the amenities that we miss and long for are denied to many boys in our country even in peace -time. Let the officers in this camp set to work now to found and endow a Boys Club in one of our cities, perhaps London, for some of the boys who will be the Men of Tomorrow and who need opportunities to develop their potential. Let this Boys Club be a memorial to the comradeship we have shared in our captivity and let it be a living memorial to those of our friends who have fallen".
Percy quietly shared his idea with others, as an individual he was not a high profile publicist - these others shared and talked over Percy's vision yet with others. There was approval and enthusiasm for the idea from those with whom it had been shared. Doubts had been overcome and the enthusiasm was not superficial or a flash in the pan! The idea had to be commended to the Camp and the support of a large number of individuals had to be won and it was not going to be easy.https://www.thebrunswickclub.org.uk/history

 

Albert Guerisse (Pat O'Leary)

 

2/17/810/2576 Tpr Alfred Southon 50 Bn Recce Corps. IS9-3351

 

One from Stevens list Sefton Delmer and another, Our Founder · About Us · Sue Ryder Care


As it happens I have a copy of the transcript for Sefton Delmer's "This is Your Life" appearance and a still photograph as well.

Delmer was the Berlin Correspondent of the Daily Express before the war, he interviewed Hitler and accompanied him on one of his airborne electioneering tours. He personally knew a number of the leading Nazis and witnessed the Reichstag Fire at first hand.

At the beginning of war, Delmer regularly broadcast on the BBC's German service and tersely rejected Hitler's "Last Appeal to Reason" on air.



In May 1941 he joined SO1 section of SOE, just before it broke off to form the Political Warfare Executive. Delmer became head of black propaganda to Enemy and Satellite countries. His first achievement was the setting up of the infamous clandestine radio station Gustav Siegfried Eins (GS1). Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy

He controlled a number of other radio stations including Soldatensender Calais which was set up as part of the deception operations for Overlord. At the same time Delmer edited a daily air-dropped newspaper called Nachrichten für die Truppe which was essentially a printed version of the previous night's broadcast of Soldatensender Calais.


Propaganda Leaflet Archive

At the end of the war, he went to Germany to re-establish the media in the British zone of occupation.

Lee

 

The SOE Agent Yvonne Cormeau was featured 8/11/89

Yvonne Cormeau

 

Another SOE Agent Yvonne Baseden also appeared

Yvonne Baseden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia