When did the first mass flights over southern England start for D-Day? My father was the SIS officer responsible for France and I am expanding a...
Personal Number: P/62882 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Sir Peter Allix WILKINSON, KCMG, DSO, OBE Unit: Royal Fusiliers ; SOE ; No 1 Special Force...
Personal Number: 182267 Rank: Colonel Name: Louis FRANCK, CBE, MiD Unit: General List London Gazette: 14 June 1945...
Hi, I am trying to establish the career of Major-General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, and I am a bit puzzled. He retired from the Army as a...
Found this on You Tube: The invasion of the Netherlands 1940, every hour The Battle of the Netherlands May 1940 [MEDIA] [MEDIA] [MEDIA]...
Does anyone know if RAF Hortholt (the airfield in north west London) was used for clandestine operations (SOE, SIS etc.) during WW2? I know that...
Hi everyone The above officer was with the Inter-Service Liaison Department (an alias for the Secret Intelligence Services/MI6) and was killed...
Hi I am seeking information about where I can find SIS reports related to resistance activites in Norway during WW2. My grandmother was assisting...
Hello all, i've just found a bit of information regarding a relative of mine and his wartime service. He comes from a Royal Signals background and...
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In the Dutch border town of Venlo, on the afternoon of 9th November 1939, two British and one Dutch intelligence officers were kidnapped by the...
Hello all I'm looking for anything - photos, anecdotes - about the former SIS HQ. Anything from 1945 up to the mid-1960's ideally. Was it at...
Captain H Knight (159776) - Cyprus Regiment - E British Instructional Team - British Military Mission Greece I was wondering if anyone has...
My grandfather Bertram Rae, a senior policeman in Burma, was in some kind of special ops in Burma in WW2 but I've never been able to find out what...
Hello, Having recently watched the film 'Operation Amsterdam' (About the evacuation of Industrial Diamonds from Holland on the 13th May 1940) I...
The truth about the lying game - Gordon Corera's detailed history of the changing role of MI6 charts the evolution of British intelligence from...
I am looking for information on a female spy that spent time in Germany and Russia.Her name was Emma May Leach/Emily Mcgowen. She apparently was...
Found this citation tonight whilst looking for another one and thought I'd start a thread on him as I can't find anywhere else to post it....
In the introduction to Nigel West's 'MI6' published in 1985 it states: "...SIS's secret history, which was written for internal consumption by a...
I would be grateful if anyone can suggest where I might learn about the wartime use of Farm Hall prior to the arrival of the ten German nuclear...
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