Special Operations and Intelligence

A Year at Bletchley Park

We had the BBC located in Bedford with wonderful concerts including Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony...

Receiving Morse Code

Upon completion of this training I was sent to the Isle of Man for Morse Code training. I was selected for...

Arrival at Porton Down 1940

I was transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps and posted to the Chemical Defence Experimental Station...

Nancy Burnham's Wartime Memories

We met a lady called Nancy Burnham who lived in London during the war... Before the war she lived in Wales...

Luc-Marc Intelligence Service

Ghislainde de Menten de Horne was the daughter of Chevalier Adelin of the Castle of Meerhout. She lived in...

ATS Dispatch Rider - Manchester, Kent and Merseyside

I was posted to 169 Rgt stationed at Eccles, Manchester, on a dummy gun sight where the guns pointed...

Memories of Bletchley Park

I was posted to Bletchley Park How exciting!...

Britain's Secret Army - Chapter 1

After General Andrew Thorne had brought 48 Division home from Dunkirk, he was directed to take command of...

Was He the Enemy

During the war we had a weekend cottage on a farm, a very rural retreat, It was just outside the walls of...

Move Aside Kate Winslet — Ere’s our Mona Audrey!

Mum was named Mona Audrey Wright and her tale is something real movies are made of. I do not know how the...

Commander Travis

'A typist, an indexer and finally a marker of de-coded naval Enigma signals, working in Block A -...

Bristol Enigma

After arriving at the majestic gates of Woburn Abbey I was sent to Bletchley Park on a bus of chattering...

Spies (extract from "Hard Times and Humour: Tasburgh 1939-1970)

He was a British army Captain named Baker. A German plane would fly low over the area where Captain Baker...

FANYS

The initial FANY training was at Overthorpe Hall in Banbury, with Lady Hailsham as the C.O. After some...

HMS SERAPH

My Great Grandad was a Scotsman who served in World War Two on board a submarine called the HMS SERAPH......

The Blackbird

I can still remember it as it if were yesterday - the ring itselt was about an inch long and 3/16" wide...

Listening in Secret

It was at this time that Mary met her husband Geoff, because the old rectory which was converted into a...

The Blitz of London

I was born in South East London, a place called the Elephant and Castle. I remember the doodle bugs coming...

Spies in Ewell?

We lived in West Ewell Surrey and our house backed onto a playing field and wartime allotments. Our garden...

Stringing Up the Spies

I was a language shorthand typist working on Ham Common, near Richmond upon Thames, from 1940-45... My job...

War work: MI6 Naval Intelligence Department

I worked for the War Office MI6 Naval Intelligence Department from 1940 to 1945 as a secretary. My brother...

Breaking the Code

I had no idea where I was going but the mystery was solved when I got out at Bletchley and was taken...

Stuck in France

He and his unit went to northern France as part of the British Expeditional Force... He had problems with...

From Glenn Miller to Columbo

We saw Glenn Miller, Vera Lynn, Jimmy Miller of the Squadronaires, compered by Frank Engleman....

Decoding AND Army Life

While Grandpa was in the Desert rats as tank commander, my granny joined the wrens. Grandpa was a member of...

Wartime Memories and Spies in Little Stonham

My parents ran the post office at Little Stonham....