Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer, writer and politician. Before World War II, he served as a diplomat, after which point he enlisted, and distinguished himself on
Maclean in 1970
Maclean appearing (top) on television discussion programme After Dark "Bloody Bosnia" in 1993
Overton Memorial Hall, Lancashire
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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
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