John Dolphin
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John Robert Vernon Dolphin was a British engineer and inventor, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service and then became the Commanding Officer of the top-secret Second World War Special Operations
Welbike
Model of a Welfreighter Mark III
Modern mobility scooters
Modern indoor rowing machines
Special Operations Executive
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Special Operations Executive was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World Wa
John Dolphin
…a British engineer and inventor, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service and then became the Commanding Officer of the top-secret Second World War Special Operations Executive (SOE) "Station IX", where specialist military equipment was developed. During his time there his inventions included the Welman submarine and the…
Sir Campbell Stuart was the director of Electra House.
SOE might not have been possible without Joan Bright Astley, Secretarial Typist and Personal Assistant to Jo Holland. She also ran secret war rooms for Winston Churchill, and is considered one of the primary inspirations for Miss Moneypenny.
Major General Colin McVean Gubbins, director of SOE from September 1943
SOE memorial plaque in the cloister of Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, unveiled by Major General Gubbins in April 1969