Jul 9, 2019Brighton's Secret Agents: Final plaque unveiled"What a fantastic day we had on Saturday! Thank you so much for all your endeavours in bringing this about. I know it has been quite a...
Jun 23, 2019Cranleigh's 'School for Secret Agents' - no longer so secretA commendable audience of 82 turned out for our day of talks and film at Cranleigh Arts Centre. Trustee Paul McCue started the morning...
Jun 5, 2019OSS Station Victor: Revealed and rememberedTwo days before the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the charity took part in a hugely-successful event at Hurley in Berkshire when a...
Jun 3, 2019Last Post for Captain Arthur Steele of French Section, SOEOur Charity's supporter Carole Yeats travelled from Southampton to Brookwood Military Cemetery on Sunday 2nd June for the monthly Last...
May 10, 2019Valençay 2019: A royal event plus a grand tourSeveral Friends and supporters regularly attend the annual F Section Memorial event at Valençay in central France which commemorates the...
Apr 7, 2019From Atlantic Wall to 'Skyfall'A group of 17 gathered recently at Hankley Common Training Area (Elstead, Surrey) a military establishment, but open to the public, and...
Apr 2, 2019Charity well represented at launch of Virginia Hall biographyThe prestigious book launch of Sonia Purnell's biography of Virginia Hall - A Woman Of No Importance - was held at Hatchards bookshop in...
Mar 31, 2019Spy Spotting & The Shetland Bus at Le GothiqueThe Secret WW2 Learning Network recently held one its now regular events in the Royal Patriotic Building - formerly the Royal Victoria...
Mar 24, 2019Rare opportunity to visit Tangmere CottageThree Friends of the Charity (Ian Titman, Ray Windmill and Paul McCue) were recently fortunate to be granted a viewing of the inside of...
Mar 23, 2019Bob Frost, founder member of the RAF Escaping Society, has diedTribute to the Comète line evader Bob Frost by Geoff Cowling - former Chairman of the Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS) RAF veteran...
Mar 22, 2019In memory of David WestonMartyn Cox - Co-founder of The Secret WW2 Learning Network - remembers a friend and dedicated supporter I can guarantee that almost...
Mar 19, 2019The Princess Royal to attend this May's SOE memorial ceremony at ValençayOur Paris-based partner organisation, Libre Résistance, has confirmed the details of this year's ceremony at the SOE French Section...
Jan 29, 2019Inaugural Annual Lunch of The Friends of The Secret WW2 Learning NetworkFriday 25th January 2019 was an historic day for the charity in that it saw the Inaugural Annual Lunch of the Friends of The Secret WW2...
Dec 23, 2018Remembering Paddy AshdownWe were greatly saddened to learn of the death at 77 of Lord Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon; and, on a day of tributes from so many big...
Nov 27, 2018Official unveiling in Brighton of our blue plaque in memory of Michael TrotobasToday was the 75th anniversary of the death of the SOE French Section agent Michael Trotobas, who was killed on November 27th 1943 in...
Nov 18, 2018Gold for one of our TrusteesIn his final duty before retiring this month as Armed Forces Advisor to the London Borough of Wandsworth, our Trustee Paul McCue was...
Nov 5, 2018SOE's Lt Roland Dowlen rememberedIn October we were pleased to be approached by one of our partner organisations, the Brookwood Last Post Association, to contribute to...
Oct 8, 2018Tributes paid to SOE and French resistance at Fort Mont-ValérienSeveral members and supporters of Secret WW2 were recently invited to be among some 200 attendees (from France, Britain and the USA) at a...
Sep 18, 2018Secret WW2 puts SOE on the map for the UK’s Heritage WeekendFollowing the success earlier this year of our partnership with the Great Barn organisation at Wanborough Manor (formerly SOE's...
Sep 3, 2018SOE agents of many nationalities remembered during 'a splendid day of events' at Brookwood MBrookwood Military Ceremonyis the location of the most officially-recorded SOE casualties. It’s not easy to spot them all, but the...