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Runnymede Air Forces Memorial
Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

participants) was organised by our Information Officer, Carol Browne. Wreaths placed included those on behalf of the f

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Violette Szabó GC Museum
Violette Szabó GC Museum

– the annual picnic and networking event at the Violette Szabó GC Museum, ‘Cartref’, Tump Lane, Wormelow, Heref

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Belgium Remembers
Belgium Remembers

; Belgium Remembers. Our annual talk and walk on ‘secret war’ Belgians buried or commemorated in Brookwood Military

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Events

How to learn of our upcoming events
How to learn of our upcoming events
  • October 15, 2025
  • 00:00
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 2 VALENÇAY
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 2 VALENÇAY
  • May 6, 2024
  • 11:00
  • F Section Memorial, Carr Bénévent,
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 1 ROMORANTIN-LANTHENAY
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 1 ROMORANTIN-LANTHENAY
  • May 5, 2024
  • 16:00
  • Quai de l'Île Marin, Romorantin-Lanthenay
CRANLEIGH AND THE SECRET WAR – EXHIBITION TO 4TH MAY 2024
CRANLEIGH AND THE SECRET WAR – EXHIBITION TO 4TH MAY 2024
  • April 23, 2024
  • 10:00
  • Cranleigh Arts, Surrey

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"In the early hours of 30 April, 1943, one of the most audacious hoaxes of World War Two has just got underway. Its code-name - Operation Mincemeat. The body of a British naval officer, Major William Martin, has been washed up on a Spanish beach. The dead man is carrying top-secret papers revealing details of a planned Allied invasion, and it’s not long before they fall into enemy hands. But the plans are false and Major Martin doesn’t exist. "In a daring mission, British naval intelligence has requisitioned a corpse and dressed him in uniform to plant fake information. It works. But for decades, no-one knew the real name of the man who’d played the biggest part: Major William Martin. "Enter Roger Morgan, an amateur historian. He tells Jane Wilkinson how Operation Mincemeat unfolded and how he uncovered the major’s true identity …"
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“Four of Stonehouse’s images depicting the machinery of death and its victims will be exhibited and offered for sale this month by Abbott and Holder, a London gallery, at an art fair on the Upper East Side, Master Drawings New York ….” https://www.facebook.com/share/1KWJ1ybz15/?mibextid=wwXIfr
He Survived Dachau. He Captured Its Horrors on Paper the Next Day. He Survived Dachau. He Captured Its Horrors on Paper the Next Day.
“The French university where spies go for training … the course is called Diplôme sur le Renseignement et les Menaces Globales, which translates as Diploma of Intelligence and Global Threats …” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98nqeqnylro/
The French university where spies go for training The French university where spies go for training
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Title image – B24 ‘Carpetbagger’ conducting parachute drop. Courtesy of Clive Bassett, Harrington Aviation Museum –  https://harringtonmuseum.org.uk/