Links and Further Information
At the moment, I'm just listing the 'thank yous' under each chapter - and please check out these excellent websites. Over time, I will be adding all the internet links and resources for each chapter, and look out for more information here and on the blog. If any links don't work, just let me know via the "contact" link under More, above.
ONE Exodus
Good article here about the sinking of the Lancastria: RMS Lancastria
A major resource describing the chaos that was Operation Aerial, the evacuation of Brest: Operation Aerial
TWO Saving Anne de Gaulle
Dr Bruce Harris is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Bond University in Queensland and the younger son of Flight Engineer Sergeant ‘Chas’ Charles William Harris, navigator of the ‘Walrus L2312’ seaplane. Sadly Dr Harris’ elder brother Richard Harris died in the 1970s in a car accident, never knowing the facts behind their father’s disappearance. Dr Harris is still investigating the Walrus’ mission and has helped me with an astonishing amount of new information for which I am very grateful. For more on the Walrus’ mission and her crew, please see Dr Bruce Harris’s excellent website: www.walrus2014.com
Alan Hall is researching and writing about the last mission of Walrus L2312. I’m looking forward to reading his book coming out soon, with the working title: “Four Men And The Walrus”. Alan has generously corrected my work and contributed a great deal of new research to the case. Any mistakes in this book are definitely my own! His book is currently available here.
And there's a rather poignant news story about the Walrus here: Walrus at the Aquarium
Norman Hope’s nephew has written a fascinating account of the mission, based on facts known at the time: www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a2304532.shtml
Also David J Smith, writer of “Being Silent They Speak”, will include more about this mission in his next book which is about Plymouth in WW2.
THREE Moreau on Board
France-Libre is a wonderful site, and their section on Hubert Moreau is terrific. It's in French but translates fairly well, though beware google translate - it's not perfect. You can find the site here.
For more on Operation Aerial, I recommend these two: www.naval-history.net/xDKWDa-Aerial.htm
www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4006-19JUN03.htm
FOUR The Home Front
One of the Haw Haw stories can be found here.
FIVE Edmundson and Friends
My access to the Wartime Diaries of Captain Cyril and Doris Wellington and related photographs is kindly provided by their daughters Miss Ann Wellington and Mrs Margaret Gardner, with brief diary excerpts quoted with their kind permission. If you would like to read the original diary entries, with extracts up until November 1942, they have generously given permission for it to be reproduced on the excellent website of the British Resistance Archive researched and hosted by the Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team (CART). You can find the diary here: www.coleshillhouse.com/wartime-diaries-of-captain-cyril-and-doris-wellington.php
Special thanks also to Nina Hannaford, one of CART’s excellent researchers for her invaluable work and for putting me in contact with Mrs Margaret Gardner who gave me even more wonderful information about her parents and their experiences. See the CART website for more fascinating details of all the Auxiliary Forces around Britain: www.coleshillhouse.com If you have any more information about the Auxiliary Forces, please contact Nina Hannaford [email protected]
Wonderful images of the hidden bunkers can be found via Cyberheritage and Hidden Heritage.
SIX Lebensraum
SEVEN Moreau in Trouble
EIGHT Pip Jarvis in Dangerous Waters
Philip Jarvis is the son of Pip Jarvis of the In-shore Patrol Flotilla. Philip not only shared with me the stories on his excellent website: http://www.adept-seo.co.uk/inshore-patrol-flotilla/ but also let me use the photographs. Again, any mistakes are definitely my own. Thanks also to Philip’s family for their encouragement and support!
NINE Jasper Lawn’s Secret War
Sharon Lawn is the daughter of Jasper Lawn, coxswain of the N51, P11 and L’Angèle-Rouge. Sharon and her brother Raymond Lawn were very generous offering photos and sharing memories of their father and correcting early drafts. Thanks to John Davies-Allen too for contacting me, offering resources including the wonderful archives from www.islandrace.com and putting me in contact with Sharon and her brother. Sadly www.islandrace.com is no longer up and running, but if you were the writer for that website, can you get in touch with me?
For more about all the clandestine trips across the Channel, I also highly recommend www.france-libre.net which has some amazing stories.
TEN Crossing the Channel
ELEVEN Escape from Dieppe
Albert Johnson was a guide for the Comet Line and lived in Devon after the war. There's an excellent website about him here.
Also Wikipedia has an excellent entry about Torquay-born Brian Stonehouse who worked as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. You can find out more here. And also check out the link to Pat O'Leary here, where is there an excellent drawing of Pat O'Leary by Brian Stonehouse, when they were in the concentration camp together. Pat Was born Albert Guerisse - their stories are in the book, but sadly I couldn't reproduce the wonderful pictures for copyright reasons.
Many of the French agents mentioned wrote their own biographies, but sadly many of these are out of print. If anyone sees a copy of the biography written by Marie-Thérèse Le Calvec let me know!
TWELVE Getting Home
THIRTEEN Bonaparte Beach
FOURTEEN Killing ‘Pimpernel Smith’
FIFTEEN Gunner Rée
SIXTEEN The Agent Who Never Was
SEVENTEEN The End of the Road
ONE Exodus
Good article here about the sinking of the Lancastria: RMS Lancastria
A major resource describing the chaos that was Operation Aerial, the evacuation of Brest: Operation Aerial
TWO Saving Anne de Gaulle
Dr Bruce Harris is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Bond University in Queensland and the younger son of Flight Engineer Sergeant ‘Chas’ Charles William Harris, navigator of the ‘Walrus L2312’ seaplane. Sadly Dr Harris’ elder brother Richard Harris died in the 1970s in a car accident, never knowing the facts behind their father’s disappearance. Dr Harris is still investigating the Walrus’ mission and has helped me with an astonishing amount of new information for which I am very grateful. For more on the Walrus’ mission and her crew, please see Dr Bruce Harris’s excellent website: www.walrus2014.com
Alan Hall is researching and writing about the last mission of Walrus L2312. I’m looking forward to reading his book coming out soon, with the working title: “Four Men And The Walrus”. Alan has generously corrected my work and contributed a great deal of new research to the case. Any mistakes in this book are definitely my own! His book is currently available here.
And there's a rather poignant news story about the Walrus here: Walrus at the Aquarium
Norman Hope’s nephew has written a fascinating account of the mission, based on facts known at the time: www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a2304532.shtml
Also David J Smith, writer of “Being Silent They Speak”, will include more about this mission in his next book which is about Plymouth in WW2.
THREE Moreau on Board
France-Libre is a wonderful site, and their section on Hubert Moreau is terrific. It's in French but translates fairly well, though beware google translate - it's not perfect. You can find the site here.
For more on Operation Aerial, I recommend these two: www.naval-history.net/xDKWDa-Aerial.htm
www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4006-19JUN03.htm
FOUR The Home Front
One of the Haw Haw stories can be found here.
FIVE Edmundson and Friends
My access to the Wartime Diaries of Captain Cyril and Doris Wellington and related photographs is kindly provided by their daughters Miss Ann Wellington and Mrs Margaret Gardner, with brief diary excerpts quoted with their kind permission. If you would like to read the original diary entries, with extracts up until November 1942, they have generously given permission for it to be reproduced on the excellent website of the British Resistance Archive researched and hosted by the Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team (CART). You can find the diary here: www.coleshillhouse.com/wartime-diaries-of-captain-cyril-and-doris-wellington.php
Special thanks also to Nina Hannaford, one of CART’s excellent researchers for her invaluable work and for putting me in contact with Mrs Margaret Gardner who gave me even more wonderful information about her parents and their experiences. See the CART website for more fascinating details of all the Auxiliary Forces around Britain: www.coleshillhouse.com If you have any more information about the Auxiliary Forces, please contact Nina Hannaford [email protected]
Wonderful images of the hidden bunkers can be found via Cyberheritage and Hidden Heritage.
SIX Lebensraum
SEVEN Moreau in Trouble
EIGHT Pip Jarvis in Dangerous Waters
Philip Jarvis is the son of Pip Jarvis of the In-shore Patrol Flotilla. Philip not only shared with me the stories on his excellent website: http://www.adept-seo.co.uk/inshore-patrol-flotilla/ but also let me use the photographs. Again, any mistakes are definitely my own. Thanks also to Philip’s family for their encouragement and support!
NINE Jasper Lawn’s Secret War
Sharon Lawn is the daughter of Jasper Lawn, coxswain of the N51, P11 and L’Angèle-Rouge. Sharon and her brother Raymond Lawn were very generous offering photos and sharing memories of their father and correcting early drafts. Thanks to John Davies-Allen too for contacting me, offering resources including the wonderful archives from www.islandrace.com and putting me in contact with Sharon and her brother. Sadly www.islandrace.com is no longer up and running, but if you were the writer for that website, can you get in touch with me?
For more about all the clandestine trips across the Channel, I also highly recommend www.france-libre.net which has some amazing stories.
TEN Crossing the Channel
ELEVEN Escape from Dieppe
Albert Johnson was a guide for the Comet Line and lived in Devon after the war. There's an excellent website about him here.
Also Wikipedia has an excellent entry about Torquay-born Brian Stonehouse who worked as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. You can find out more here. And also check out the link to Pat O'Leary here, where is there an excellent drawing of Pat O'Leary by Brian Stonehouse, when they were in the concentration camp together. Pat Was born Albert Guerisse - their stories are in the book, but sadly I couldn't reproduce the wonderful pictures for copyright reasons.
Many of the French agents mentioned wrote their own biographies, but sadly many of these are out of print. If anyone sees a copy of the biography written by Marie-Thérèse Le Calvec let me know!
TWELVE Getting Home
THIRTEEN Bonaparte Beach
FOURTEEN Killing ‘Pimpernel Smith’
FIFTEEN Gunner Rée
SIXTEEN The Agent Who Never Was
SEVENTEEN The End of the Road