SPY OXFORDSHIRE is the brand new exhibition at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, running from Wednesday 28th October until...

The Secret WW2 Learning Network is delighted to announce that we have an eminent new Trustee in the person of Professor Juliette...

James Edgar Ld’H CdeG lives in Western Australia. He served with SOE in Europe and the Far East, and is now one of its last surviving...

Within the bounds of the government's lockdown and social distancing guidelines, the Royal British Legion was able to arrange...

The Memorial to the Missing 1939-45 in Brookwood Military Cemetery near Woking, Surrey hosts the greatest number of SOE names of any...

The challenges of Covid-19 being what they are, several forthcoming events on the 2020 programme of The Secret WW2 Learning Network and...

Sunday 2nd February 2020 saw the monthly Brookwood Last Post ceremony at Brookwood Military Cemetery, near Woking in Surrey. This...

On Wednesday 29th January 2020 at an event organised by Ognisko Polskie, author Jack Fairweather gave a PowerPoint presentation on his...

Several members of The Secret WW2 Learning Network are also members of the Paris-based association Libre Résistance (LR) which keeps...

The past week started with Remembrance Sunday and was immediately followed by November 11th itself, with the Charity's Trustees, Friends...

On Monday 11th November a group of nine Friends and supporters of the Charity were at Brookwood Military Cemetery for a special...

During Remembrance Sunday events today, and at another tomorrow, tributes at SOE and other ceremonies are being paid by Charity members. ...

Trustee Paul McCue recently visited Israel as a guest of the Israel Defence Forces, following two projects that Paul has helped with...

The Charity has just hosted a two-centre group outing to the Military Intelligence Museum at Chicksands and The Shuttleworth Collection...

The Charity was proud to be associated with the Richmond Literary Lunch, the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club on Tuesday, 24th September 2019....

James Edgar is one of the last surviving members of SOE who served in France. He was Mentioned in Dispatches, awarded the Croix de Guerre...

Over two days during September, members of the Charity's team gave specially arranged presentations at Wanborough Great Barn near...

On September 12th at an evening presentation at the Ognisko Polskie, The Polish Hearth Club in London, two authors gave talks about three...

On September 1st several Trustees and Friends of the Charity attended a commemorative ceremony for Jewish SOE personnel at Brookwood...

This year's annual celebration of the life of the SOE agent Violette Szabo took place on July 14th at the Violette Szabo GC Museum in...

"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...

A commendable audience of 82 turned out for our day of talks and film at Cranleigh Arts Centre. Trustee Paul McCue started the morning...

Two days before the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the charity took part in a hugely-successful event at Hurley in Berkshire when a...

Our Charity's supporter Carole Yeats travelled from Southampton to Brookwood Military Cemetery on Sunday 2nd June for the monthly Last...

Several Friends and supporters regularly attend the annual F Section Memorial event at Valençay in central France which commemorates the...

A group of 17 gathered recently at Hankley Common Training Area (Elstead, Surrey) a military establishment, but open to the public, and...

The prestigious book launch of Sonia Purnell's biography of Virginia Hall - A Woman Of No Importance - was held at Hatchards bookshop in...

The Secret WW2 Learning Network recently held one its now regular events in the Royal Patriotic Building - formerly the Royal Victoria...

Three Friends of the Charity (Ian Titman, Ray Windmill and Paul McCue) were recently fortunate to be granted a viewing of the inside of...

Tribute to the Comète line evader Bob Frost by Geoff Cowling - former Chairman of the Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS) RAF veteran...

Martyn Cox - Co-founder of The Secret WW2 Learning Network - remembers a friend and dedicated supporter I can guarantee that almost...

Our Paris-based partner organisation, Libre Résistance, has confirmed the details of this year's ceremony at the SOE French Section...

Friday 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...

We 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...

Today was the 75th anniversary of the death of the SOE French Section agent Michael Trotobas, who was killed on November 27th 1943 in...

In his final duty before retiring this month as Armed Forces Advisor to the London Borough of Wandsworth, our Trustee Paul McCue was...

In October we were pleased to be approached by one of our partner organisations, the Brookwood Last Post Association, to contribute to...

Several members and supporters of Secret WW2 were recently invited to be among some 200 attendees (from France, Britain and the USA) at a...

Following the success earlier this year of our partnership with the Great Barn organisation at Wanborough Manor (formerly SOE's...

Brookwood Military Ceremonyis the location of the most officially-recorded SOE casualties. It’s not easy to spot them all, but the...

In Peter Dixon's new book on the wartime relationship between the Intelligence Corps and SOE, he's very kindly written the following...

Monday evening, 6th August 2018, saw the Charity's involvement in the launch of 'Last Man Standing', the biography of Geoffrey Rothwell...

Phew what a scorcher! ... in fact it had all kicked-off last Thursday afternoon, with the Charity's co-founder Martyn Bell giving a talk...

Dunsfold Park in Surrey, aka Dunsfold Aerodrome and better known in recent years as the home of the BBC Top Gear series of TV programmes,...

The Charity’s links with the participants of the BBC Two ‘immersive history’ series Secret Agent Selection: WW2 have led to four of the...

It’s just over twelve months since the Charity’s co-founder Martyn Cox first contacted the aviation broker handling the sale of the...

Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell - the New Zealand based author of the Diana Rowden biography “Her Finest Hour” - has been in Europe for a...

While the charity's Chair Louisa Russell attended the VIP reception at Horse Guards (Louisa has a distinguished RAF family history)...

Paul McCue, the historian and a Trustee of The Secret WW2 Learning Network, was pleased and proud to have recently assisted Brigitte...

At Wanborough Great Barn near Guildford on Saturday 9th June, Secret WW2 staged Part 1 of a two-part programme of illustrated...