Baissac, Claude Marc Boucherville de (1907–1974), special operations officer, was born on 28 February 1907 at Curepipe, Mauritius, the younger son and youngest of three children of Marie Louis Marc de Boucherville Baissac and his wife, Marie Louise Jeannette Dupont. His father was a British subject of French origin and represented the ...
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Baissac, Claude Marc Boucherville de (1907–1974), special operations officer
V. M. Atkins
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Brooks, Anthony Morris [Tony] (1922–2007)
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Brooks, Anthony Morris [Tony] (1922–2007), special operations and intelligence officer
Lawrence Goldman
Brooks, Anthony Morris [Tony] (1922–2007), special operations and intelligence officer, was born on 4 April 1922 at The Cottage, Orsett, Essex, the son of Douglas Charles Morris Brooks, construction engineer and businessman, and his wife, Beryl, née Anderson. His father had undertaken secret missions during the First World War, though ...
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Burney [née Baseden], Yvonne Jeanne Therese de Vibraye (1922–2017), Special Operations Executive agent
Roderick Bailey
Burney [née Baseden], Yvonne Jeanne Therese de Vibraye (1922–2017), Special Operations Executive agent, was born in Paris on 20 January 1922, the daughter and elder child of Clifford Baseden (1894–1977), an electrical engineer and former officer in the Royal Air Force...
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Burney (née Baseden), Yvonne Jeanne Therese de Vibraye (1922-2017)
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Yvonne Burney (1922-2017), by unknown photographer, 1946
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Chandler, Sir Geoffrey (1922–2011), special operations officer, businessman, and human rights campaigner
Chris Marsden
Chandler, Sir Geoffrey (1922–2011), special operations officer, businessman, and human rights campaigner, was born on 15 November 1922 at 4 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, the son of Frederick George Chandler (1886–1942), senior physician to the London Chest Hospital and one of the leading chest physicians of his day, and his wife, ...
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Churchill, Peter Morland (1909–1972)
Maker: Mark Gerson
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Peter Morland Churchill (1909–1972) by Mark Gerson, 1954 © Mark Gerson; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Churchill, Peter Morland (1909–1972), special operations officer
M. R. D. Foot
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Churchill, Peter Morland (1909–1972), special operations officer, was born in Amsterdam on 14 January 1909, the eldest of four children (three sons and a daughter) of William Algernon Churchill, British consul there, who ten years later was consul-general in Milan, and his wife, ...
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Clark, Sir Robert Anthony [Bob] (1924–2013), special operations officer, solicitor, and businessman
Roderick Bailey
Clark, Sir Robert Anthony [Bob] (1924–2013), special operations officer, solicitor, and businessman, was born at 29 Chandos Road, East Finchley, London, on 6 January 1924, the younger son of John Anthony (Jack) Clark, mechanical engineer, and his wife, Gladys Evelyn Mary, née Dyer (1891–1970)...
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D’Artois [née Butt], Sonia Esmée Florence [Toni] (1924–2014), Special Operations Executive agent
Roderick Bailey
D’Artois [née Butt], Sonia Esmée Florence [Toni] (1924–2014), Special Operations Executive agent, was born Sonia Juliet Esme Butt at Charnwood, Eastchurch, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, on 14 May 1924, the third child and younger daughter of Leslie Acton Kingsford Butt...
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Deakin, Sir (Frederick) William Dampier [Bill] (1913–2005), special operations officer, historian, and college head
David Dilks
Deakin, Sir (Frederick) William Dampier [Bill] (1913–2005), special operations officer, historian, and college head, was born on 3 July 1913 at 30 Temple Gardens, Golders Green, London, the elder son of Albert Whitney Deakin (1883–1959), motor engineer and farmer, and his wife, ...
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Deakin, Sir (Frederick) William Dampier (1913–2005)
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Sir (Frederick) William Dampier Deakin (1913–2005) by Bassano, 1961 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Escott, Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet- (1907–1981), special operations officer and banker
Charles Cruickshank
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Escott, Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet- (1907–1981), special operations officer and banker, was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 6 June 1907, the eldest of four children (two sons and two daughters) of Aldred Bickham Sweet-Escott, marine engineer of Newport and Bristol, and his wife, ...
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Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011), special operations officer and author
John Ure
Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011), special operations officer and author, was born on 11 February 1915 at 20 Endsleigh Gardens, Bloomsbury, London, the younger child and only son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), geologist, and his first wife, Muriel Aileen (otherwise Eileen or Æileen), ...
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Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011)
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Gizycka, Countess Krystyna [née Countess Krystyna Skarbeka; alias Christine Granville] (1915–1952), special operations officer
M. R. D. Foot
Gizycka, Countess Krystyna [née Countess Krystyna Skarbeka; alias Christine Granville] (1915–1952), special operations officer, was born on 1 May 1915, probably at Mlodziesyn, some 30 miles from Warsaw, Poland. Her father, Count Jerzy Skarbek, had married in 1899 Stephanie Goldfeder, daughter of a Jewish banker, and they already had a son. The estate was soon overrun by the German army, and her infancy was spent under German occupation. In 1920 the family moved to another estate, at ...
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Hallowes [née Brailly], Odette Marie Céline (1912–1995), special operations officer and member of the FANY
Lynette Beardwood
Hallowes [née Brailly], Odette Marie Céline (1912–1995), special operations officer and member of the FANY, was born on 28 April 1912 in Amiens, northern France, the only daughter in the family of three children of Gaston Brailly (c.1880–1918), banker, and his wife, ...
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Hallowes, Odette Marie Céline (1912–1995)
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Hastings, Sir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone (1921–2005), politician
Richard Davenport-Hines
Hastings, Sir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone (1921–2005), politician, was born on 4 May 1921, at 13 Washington House, Basil Street, Knightsbridge, London, the only son of Major Lewis Aloysius Macdonald Hastings (1880–1966) and his wife, Meriel Eda St John (1888–1971), daughter of Neil Edmonstone...
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