NOTES

Introduction: An Invasion of Privacy

1    Mrs Cameron-Head to Lochiel, May 1940, Cameron-Head papers, Highland Council Archive, D271/B/III/1

2    Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939

3    Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy, p. 54

4    Robinson, J. M ., The Country House at War p. 12

5    Robinson, J. M ., The Country House at War p. 44

6    Lady Desborough to Winston Churchill, 5 November 1942

7    Lady Desborough to Winston Churchill, 5 November 1942

8    Telegram from Winston Churchill to Lady Desborough 6 November 1942

9    Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island, p. 65

10    Hodgson, Vere, Few Eggs and No Oranges 18 April 1943

Chapter 1: Brocket’s Babies

1    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

2    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

3    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

4    Lily Lowe to her mother 5 September 1939 www.brocketbabies.org.uk/

5    Lily Lowe to her mother 12 September 1939 www.brocketbabies.org.uk/

6    Lily Lowe to her mother 12 September 1939 www.brocketbabies.org.uk/

7    www.brocket-hall.co.uk/­brocket-hall/history

8    The Anglo-German Fellowship, National Archives KV 5/3

9    The Anglo-German Fellowship, National Archives KV 5/3

10    From Dorothy Louisa Beasley www.brocketbabies.org.uk

11    From Dorothy Louisa Beasley www.brocketbabies.org.uk

12    www.brocket-hall.co.uk/­brocket-hall/history/

13    Peter Mandler, ‘Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008

14    Ministry of Information Second World War Official Collection IWM D 9027

15    Irene Grainger to her husband, February 1943, www.brocketbabies.org.uk/

16    Irene Grainger to her husband, February 1943, www.brocketbabies.org.uk/

17    Doreen Glover www.brocketbabies.org.uk

18    Doreen Glover www.brocketbabies.org.uk

19    June Godby 15 March 2013, www.brocketbabies.org.uk

20    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

21    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

22    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

23    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

24    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

25    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

26    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

27    www.brocketbabies.org.uk

28    Norah Hearn www.brocketbabies.org.uk

29    Norah Hearn www.brocketbabies.org.uk

30    Julie Bloomfield www.brocketbabies.org.uk

31    Mo Neate www.brocketbabies.org.uk

32    Mo Neate www.brocketbabies.org.uk

33    Mo Neate www.brocketbabies.org.uk

34    Les Cook www.brocketbabies.org.uk

Chapter 2: Waddesdon at War

1    Bell, G. K. A., Humanity and the Refugees. The Fifth Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture 1 February 1939 to the Jewish Historical Society of England

2    Ministry of Health advice leaflet, HMSO, 1939

3    Ministry of Health advice leaflet, HMSO, 1939

4    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor, p. 118

5    Gurney, Ivor and Carr, Norman, Waddesdon Through the Ages p. 53

6    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 19

7    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 20

8    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 81

9    Catherine Taylor in conversation with JS 7 January 2016

10    Unpublished, undated speech to an audience in Glasgow probably March 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

11    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 122

12    New York Times, 28 July 1983

13    Guenter Gruenebaum to Dorothy and James de Rothschild 12 March 1946 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

14    ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, 17 December 1942

15    Rothschild, Dorothy de, Diary 25 August 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

16    Colville, John, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955, 23 September 1939

17    Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy, p. 372

18    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 122

19    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

20    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

21    Gurney, Ivor and Carr, Norman, Waddesdon Through the Ages p. 54

22    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 126

23    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 126

24    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

25    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

26    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

27    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 128

28    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 122

29    Christine Bride to Dorothy de Rothschild August 1941 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

30    Christine Bride to Dorothy de Rothschild 7 January 1942 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

31    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

32    Miss Mabel Hill to Dorothy de Rothschild 12 October 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

33    Helen Crosfield to Dorothy de Rothschild 11 September 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

34    Christine Bride to Dorothy de Rothschild 7 January 1942© Waddesdon Manor Archive

35    Helen Crosfield to Dorothy de Rothschild 19 November 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

36    Helen Crosfield to Dorothy de Rothschild 19 November 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

37    Miss Mabel Hill to Dorothy de Rothschild 12 October 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

38    Mrs Fillingham to Christine Bride, 25 November 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

39    Mrs Noakes to Mr & Mrs de Rothschild 18 October 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

40    Mrs Noakes to Mr & Mrs de Rothschild 18 October 1939 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

41    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

42    Unpublished memoir © Waddesdon Manor Archive

43    Report from Under-Matron on Christmas 1939, undated © Waddesdon Archive

44    Report from Under-Matron on Christmas 1939, undated © Waddesdon Archive

45    Conversation between Mrs Beatrice Whitehouse, Catherine Taylor and Pippa Shirley 21-7-2010 © Waddesdon Archive

46    GP Milson to Philip Sydney Woolf 29 September 1940© Waddesdon Archive

47    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor, p. 124

48    Gurney, Ivor and Carr, Norman, Waddesdon Through the Ages p. 149

49    Gurney, Ivor and Carr, Norman, Waddesdon Through the Ages p. 150

50    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor pp. 124–5

Chapter 3: Girls, Ghosts and Godliness

1    Daily Telegraph 22 March 2003 Daphne Lady Acton Obituary

2    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox pp. 34–5

3    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 82

4    Knox, Ronald, A Spiritual Aeneid p. 48

5    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 115

6    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 67

7    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 179

8    Snoddy, Raymond, NewsWatch 16 June 2005

9    Knox, Ronald, Essays in Satire A Forgotten Interlude

10    Bourne, Cardinal, The Tablet January 1926

11    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 239

12    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 240

13    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 241

14    The Annals of Kensington 1 September 1939

15    The Annals of Kensington 13, 14, 16 September 1939

16    The Annals of Kensington 21 September 1939

17    The Annals of Kensington 17 October 1939

18    The Annals of Kensington 22 September 1939

19    The Annals of Kensington 23 September 1939

20    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 268

21    The Annals of Kensington 25 September 1939

22    The Annals of Kensington 25 September 1939

23    The Annals of Kensington 9 September 1939

24    The Annals of Kensington 17 December 1939

25    Alannah Dowling email to JS 2 November 2016

26    Alannah Dowling email to JS 9 November 2016

27    Nicola Macaskie in conversation with JS April 2016

28    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No 2), 1943

29    Nicola Macaskie in conversation with JS May 2016

30    Pelline Marffy née Acton in conversation with JS 14 May 2017

31    Knox, Ronald, Literary Distractions pp. 225–6

32    Knox, Ronald, Literary Distractions pp. 226–7

33    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox p. 272

34    Alannah Dowling in conversation with JS April 2016

35    Faine Meynell in conversation with JS August 2015

36    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 6

37    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 2) 1943 p. 14

38    Knox, Ronald, The Mass in Slow Motion: At the Foot of the Altar p. 3

39    Knox, Ronald, The Mass in Slow Motion: At the Foot of the Altar p. 3

40    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 5) 1945 p. 32

41    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 24

42    Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 37

43    Knox, Ronald, The Mass in Slow Motion p. 104

44    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 3) 1944

45    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 18

46    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 21

47    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 38

48    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 2) 1943 p. 21

49    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) p. 21

50    The Assumption Chronicle 1945 (War Issue No. 5) p.22

51    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 12

52    Pelline Marffy née Acton in conversation with JS 14 May 2017

53    Nicola Macaskie in conversation with JS April 2016

54    Alannah Dowling in email to JS 8 November 2016

55    Alannah Dowling in conversation with JS August 2016

56    Nicola McKaskie in conversation with JS August 2016

57    Woodward, Antony and Penn, Robert, The Wrong Kind of Snow, the Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather 28 January

58    The Annals of Kensington 1 February 1940

59    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 1) 1942 p. 12

60    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 4) October 1944

61    The Assumption Chronicle (War Issue No. 5) October 1945

62    Pelline Marffy née Acton in conversation with JS 14 May 2017

Chapter 4: Twice Removed

1    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 3

2    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 3

3    Longmate, Norman, How We Lived Then p. 65

4    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 4

5    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 6

6    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 6

7    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 7

8    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 7

9    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 5

10    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 8

11    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 12

12    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 13

13    Tom Gaunt’s letter to parents of Malvern College boys dd. 9 September 1939

14    Robinson, John Martin, Requisitioned p. 48

15    Hussey, Christopher, Country Life 3 February 1940 pp. 121–2

16    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 15

17    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 33

18    Captain James Roy to his mother 7 October 1939

19    Captain James Roy to his mother 14 October 1939

20    Hussey, Christopher, Country Life 3 February 1940 pp. 121–2

21    Email from Karen Wiseman at the Blenheim Education Team 13 October 2016

22    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 20

23    Hussey, Christopher, Country Life 3 February 1940 pp. 121–2

24    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 34

25    James Roy to his mother 22 October 1939

26    The Malvernian December 1939

27    James Roy to his mother 21 January 1940

28    James Roy to his mother 28 January 1940

29    Blumeneau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College p. 129

30    James Roy to his mother 26 May 1940

31    James Roy to his mother 30 June 1940

32    Sir Stephen Brown in conversation with JS 6 April 2017

33    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime pp. 40–41

34    Monthly Weather Report of the Meteorological Office, Vol 57. No. 6 MO 454

35    Roy, James Memoirs pp. 38–9 IWM 07/36/1

36    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 130

37    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 41

38    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 41

39    Sir Stephen Brown in conversation with JS 6 April 2017

40    Tom Gaunt to parents June 1940

41    www.mi5.gov.uk/­mi5-in-world-war-ii

42    BBC.co.uk The People’s War Helen Quin, Article A4427084 11 July 2005

43    Robinson, J. M., The Country House at War p. 112

44    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 47

45    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 50

46    Lord Presidents Committee, sub-committee on accommodation. Memorandum to the War Cabinet 28 April 1942 by the President of the Board of Education NA CAB 21/2564

47    Lord Presidents Committee, sub-committee on accommodation. Memorandum to the War Cabinet 28 April 1942 NA Cab 21/2564

48    Lord Presidents Committee, sub-committee on accommodation. Memorandum to the War Cabinet 28 April 1942 by the President of the Board of Education NA CAB 21/2564

49    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 52

50    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 61

51    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 140

52    Malvern College Exhibition on RADAR 2016-17

53    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime pp. 73–4

54    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 64

55    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 67

56    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 143

57    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 142

58    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 81

59    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 143

60    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 144

61    Daily Telegraph 23 February 1944

62    Daily Telegraph 23 February 1944

63    Sir Stephen Brown in conversation with JS 6 April 17

64    Locock, Malcolm, unpublished memoir

65    Locock, Malcolm, unpublished memoir

66    Locock, Malcolm, unpublished memoir

67    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 pp. 144–5

68    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 83

69    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 150

70    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 150

71    Malvern College Exhibition 2016–17

72    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 152

73    Rowe, A. P., One Story of Radar p. 161

74    Malvern History Flipbook www.qinetiq.com

75    Gaunt, H. C. A., Two Exiles: A School in Wartime p. 77

Chapter 5: Lady Grey’s Guests

1    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected p. 18

2    www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/­content/assets/mohippo/pdf/t/5/­feb1941.pdf

3    Medical Services General History Vol 1 by Major General Sir W. G. Macpherson, KCMG CB LLD p. 85

4    Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy p. 460

5    Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy p. 54

6    Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy pp. 54–5

7    Maurice Patterman to Lady Sybil Grey 4 February 1915

8    Private H. Heroies to Lady Sybil Grey 7 January 1915

9    Howickhallgardens.com/­history-of-howick-hall-and-gardens/

10    Howickhallgardens.com/­history-of-howick-hall-and-gardens/­earl-grey-an d-the-earl-grey-family

11    Lord Howick in conversation with JS 23 June 2016

12    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

13    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected p. 16

14    Meakin, Arthur, Inconsequential Jottings, Memory Meanderings and Tales I wos Told (unpublished) p. 1

15    Meakin, Arthur, Inconsequential Jottings, Memory Meanderings and Tales I wos Told (unpublished) p. 5

16    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

17    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

18    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

19    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

20    RCB/2/49/1/8 to 13 – British Red Cross Society Northumberland Country Branch reports, 1939 to 1947

21    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

22    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

23    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected p. 17

24    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

25    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected unnumbered page (introduction)

26    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

27    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

28    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

29    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

30    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected p. 18

31    Ann Dawnay in conversation with JS 24 June 2016

32    Lorna Granlund in conversation with JS 18-11-2015

33    Lorna Granlund in conversation with JS 18-11-2015

34    Lorna Granlund in conversation with JS 18-11-2015

35    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

36    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected pp. 15–16

37    Diary of Lady Sybil Middleton, 5 September 1940

38    Diary of Lady Sybil Middleton 4 January 1943

39    RCB/2/49/1/8 to 13 – British Red Cross Society Northumberland Country Branch reports, 1939 to 1947

40    Meakin, Arthur Inconsequential Jottings, Memory Meanderings and Tales I wos Told (unpublished and unnumbered) p. 7

41    Miss M. E. B., Cook IWM 99/37/1

Chapter 6: Dear ‘K’

1    Henriques, Robert, Marcus Samuel First Viscount Bearsted and founder of The ‘Shell’ Transport and Trading Company 1853–1927 p. 636

2    Henriques, Robert, Marcus Samuel First Viscount Bearsted and founder of The ‘Shell’ Transport and Trading Company 1853–1927 p. 640

3    New York Times 10 November1948

4    Peter Samuel to his parents 15 June 1943

5    Adler, Barney, War time experiences 1940–1946 unpublished MS p. 1

6    Adler, Barney, War time experiences 1940–1946 unpublished MS p. 2

7    Adler, Barney, War time experiences 1940–1946 unpublished MS p. 3

8    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 192

9    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 192-3

10    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil pp. 197-8

11    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 192

12    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 168

13    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 168

14    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 205

15    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 206

16    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 207

17    Howarth, Stephen, A Century in Oil p. 209

18    From notebooks in Upton House display by National Trust

19    Lord Bearsted to W. Gibson 1941

20    Lord Bearsted to W. Gibson 18 March 1942

21    Foot, M. R. D., The Special Operations Executive 1940–46 p. 10

22    Foot, M. R. D., SOE The Special Operations Executive 1940–46 p. 2

23    Foot, M. R. D., ‘SOE in France p. 2

24    Bickham Sweet-Escott, Baker Street Irregular pp. 20-1

25    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 178

26    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 179

27    Lord Bearsted report January 1943 NA HS 9/109/3

28    DCR/OR/9379 from D/CR to AQ/M 18 October 1943

Chapter 7: Secret Saboteurs on the Home Front

1    www.warlinks.com/pages/­auxiliary.php#special

2    CART website www.coleshillhouse.com/auxiliers.php

3    Churchill, 4 June 1940 in the House of Commons quoted in Enright, Dominique, The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill p. 45

4    Atkin, Malcolm, Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939–1945 p.2

5    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 23

6    Foot, M. R. D., ‘Holland, John Charles Francis (1897–1956)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008

7    Mackenzie, William, The Secret History of SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940–45 p. 8

8    Foot, M. R. D., The Special Operations Executive 1940-46 p. 12

9    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 9

10    Linderman, A.R.B. Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive p. 40

11    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE pp. 15–16

12    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 34

13    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE pp. 34-5

14    Gubbins, MG Colin, The Art of Guerrilla Warfare p. 1

15    Dodds-Parker, Douglas, Setting Europe Ablaze, p. 182

16    Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island, p. 163

17    Gubbins papers IWM 3/2/57, CG’s comments on MRF Foot’s book, undated

18    Gubbins address to the Anglo-Polish Society, 18 November 1972 IWM 4/1/41

19    Private Papers of Major General Sir Colin M Gubbins KCMG DSO MC IWM 12618

20    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 69

21    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 69

22    Foot, M. R. D., ‘Grand, Lawrence Douglas (1898–1975)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008

23    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 181

24    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 181

25    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 181

26    www.coleshillhouse.com/­auxiliers.php

27    www.coleshillhouse.com/­auxiliers.php

28    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 4

29    Hitler’s directive No. 16 quoted in Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p.35

30    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 3

31    www.coleshillhouse.com/­auxiliers.php

32    Lampe, David, The Last Ditch: Britain’s Secret Resistance and the Nazi Invasion Plans p. 74

33    www.coleshillhouse.com/­auxiliers.php

34    www.coleshillhouse.com/­auxiliers.php

35    www.coleshillhouse.com/­auxiliers.php

36    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 87

37    www.coleshillhouse.com/­capt-ian-benson.php

38    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Underground Army p. 146

39    Lampe, David, The Last Ditch p. 79

40    Fleming, Peter, The Spectator 8 July 1966

41    Hitler’s Britain: What Hitler Had in Store for Occupied Britain DVD

42    Captain Ian Benson interviewed www.coleshillhouse.com

43    Beatrice Temple personal diary 24 November 1941

44    www.coleshillhouse.com/

45    www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/­beatrice-temple.php

46    www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/­beatrice-temple.php

47    www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/­beatrice-temple.php

48    Bines, Graham, former curator of the Museum of the British Resistance Organisation quoted in Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Secret Army p. 126

49    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Secret Army p. 93

50    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Secret Army p. 93

51    The Secrets of Underground Britain: WARTIME SECRETS (film)

52    Britain’s Secret ‘Underground’, Times [London, England] 14 Apr. 1945

53    Atkin, Malcolm, Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939–45 p. 87

54    Warwicker, John, Churchill’s Secret Army p. 83

55    Atkin, Malcolm, Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939–45 p. 87

56    Atkin, Malcolm, Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939–1945 p. xii

Chapter 8: Guerrillas in the Mist

1    Mackenzie, William, The Secret History of SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940-45 p. 746

2    Kemp, Peter, No Colours or Crest p.25

3    Dourlein, Pieter, Inside North Pole p. 81

4    Pimlott, Ben ed., The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton pp. 57–59

5    Pimlott, Ben ed., The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton p. 62

6    Ingram Murray in email to JS 26 February 2017

7    Ingram Murray in email to JS 26 February 2017

8    Wilkinson, Peter & Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins and SOE p.101

9    Pimlott, Ben ed. The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton p. 97, 8 November 1940

10    Pimlott, Ben ed. The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton p. 115 5 December 1940

11    Wilkinson, Peter, ‘Gubbins, Sir Colin McVean (1896–1976)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

12    Ingram Murray to JS email 26 February 2017

13    Foot, M. R. D., SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940–46 p. 22

14    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 16

15    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 21

16    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 22

17    War Office Records, National Archives WO 260/8

18    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 40 quoting speech by Major R. F. Hall MC ‘The Big House’ 31 August 2001 to the Moidart Local History Society

19    Longland, Jack, ‘Chapman, Frederick Spencer (1907–1971)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011

20    Kemp, Peter, No Colours or Crest p. 19

21    Buckmaster, Maurice, They Fought Alone p. 249

22    Foot, M.R.D. SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940–46 p. 63

23    Pimlott, Ben ed., The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton p. 133

24    Linderman, A. R. B., Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive p. 40

25    Dalton’s letter to George Wicks MP, 30 December 1941, in file ‘Organisation & Administration. Property, SOE records, National Archives H 8/337

26    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 170

27    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country pp. 53–4

28    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 56

29    www.coleshillhouse.com/­eric-anthony-sykes-the-forgotten-hero-of-combatives.php

30    Hall, Major R F MC, The Big House (unpublished transcript of a lecture to the Moidart History Society) 13 August 2001

31    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 57

32    Fairbairn, W., All-In Fighting pp. 7–8

33    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 56

34    Langelaan, George, Knights of Floating Silk p. 68

35    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 49

36    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 11

37    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 29

38    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 56

39    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. xxxii

40    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 57

41    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 58

42    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 64

43    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 64

44    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 64

45    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 61

46    Scott, Hamish, ‘Inside Story: Garramore House’, Daily Telegraph 11 November 2000

47    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 65

48    Harrison, David M, Special Operations Executives: Para-Military Training in Scotland during World War 2 p. 51

49    Harrison, David M, Special Operations Executives: Para-Military Training in Scotland during World War 2 p. 52

50    Harrison, David M, Special Operations Executives: Para-Military Training in Scotland during World War 2 p. 54

51    Harrison, David M, Special Operations Executives: Para-Military Training in Scotland during World War 2 p. 53

52    Harrison, David M, Special Operations Executives: Para-Military Training in Scotland during World War 2 p. 54

53    Daily Telegraph Obituaries 9 August 2011

54    Daily Telegraph Obituaries 9 August 2011

55    Daily Telegraph Obituaries 9 August 2011

56    Daily Telegraph Obituaries 9 August 2011

57    Daily Telegraph Obituaries 9 August 2011

58    Foot, M. R. D., SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940–46 p. 205

59    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 72

60    Botting, Douglas, Gavin Maxwell p. 72

61    Allan, Stuart, Commando Country p. 22

Chapter 9: Three Lime Trees

1    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 18

2    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 177

3    Moravec, František, Master of Spies pp. 22–3

4    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 67

5    Quoted by Alexander Werth in France and Munich (H. Hamilton, 1939), p. 120

6    Adolf Hitler in a speech in Munich, September 1938 reproduced in Dr Beneš by Compton Mackenzie p. 13

7    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 15

8    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 190

9    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 197

10    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 208

11    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 215

12    Winston Churchill, 21 September 1939

13    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš pp. 236–7

14    Churchill, Winston, A Total and Unmitigated Defeat. Speech in the House of Commons 5 October 1938

15    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 239

16    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 67

17    Moravec, František, Master of Spies p. 39

18    Moravec, František, Master of Spies pp. 39-40

19    Moravec, František, Master of Spies p. 133

20    Moravec, František, Master of Spies p. 137

21    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 23

22    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 252

23    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 85

24    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 81

25    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

26    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

27    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

28    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

29    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

30    Beith, Richard, The Postal History of the Free Czechoslovak Forces in Great Britain 1940–1945 p iii

31    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

32    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

33    Beith, Richard, The Postal History of the Free Czechoslovak Forces in Great Britain 1940–1945 p. 3

34    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 262

35    Mackenzie, Compto,n Dr Beneš p. 262

36    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 273

37    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 165

38    Moravec, František, Master of Spies p. 193

39    Linderman, ARB Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive pp. 154–5

40    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 107

41    Moravec, František, Master of Spies p. 195

42    Moravec, František, Master of Spies p. 196

43    www.holocaustresearchproject.org/­nazioccupation/heydrichkilling.html

44    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 188

45    MacDonald, Callum, The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich p. 188

46    www.holocaustresearchproject.org/­nazioccupation/heydrichkilling.html

47    Mackenzie, Compton Dr Beneš p. 256

Chapter 10: Birds of Passage

1    Quoted in Fenby, Jonathan, The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved p. 132

2    Bertram, Mrs B., IWM 6428 p. 2

3    Barbara Bertram, IWM Interview 22 March 1999 catalogue 18783

4    Bertram, Anthony & Barbara, The Secret of Bignor Manor p. p. 181

5    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 4

6    Barbara Bertram, IWM Interview 22 March 1999 catalogue 18783

7    Bertram, Mrs B., IWM 6428 p. 1

8    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 4

9    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 8

10    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 6

11    Bertram, Mrs B., IWM 6428 p. 1

12    Bertram, Barbara French Resistance in Sussex p. 21

13    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. 22–3

14    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 25

15    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight p. 21

16    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight p. 21

17    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 1

18    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight pp. 108-9

19    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 17

20    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 25

21    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 23

22    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 28

23    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. 4–5

24    Bertram, Mrs B., IWM 6428 p. 5

25    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 1

26    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. 10–11

27    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 11

28    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 12

29    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 13

30    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. x

31    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 20

32    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 16–17

33    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight p. 66

34    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron pp. 24-5

35    Bertram, Anthony & Barbara, The Secret of Bignor Manor p. 96

36    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 39

37    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 25

38    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 28

39    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 28

40    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight p. 231

41    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 20

42    McCairns, James Atterby, Lysander Pilot: Secret Operations with 161 Squadron p. 19

43    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 61

44    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 61

45    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. 61–2

46    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. 59–60

47    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 45

48    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 30

49    Bertram, Mrs B., IWM 6428 p. 16

50    Bertram, Barbara French Resistance in Sussex p. 34

51    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight p. 100

52    Verity, Hugh, We Landed by Moonlight p. 100

53    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 35

54    Albert Kohan codename ‘Berthel’ Might be better to asterisk them in the final version

55    Jacques Taylor code name ‘Cazenave’

56    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 36

57    Verity, Hugh, We Landed in Moonlight p. 157

58    Bertram, Anthony and Barbara, The Secret of Bignor Manor p. 127

59    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p. 42

60    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. 85–6

61    Bertram, Anthony and Barbara, The Secret of Bignor Manor p 129

62    Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex p 38

63    First published in Le Livre due Courage et de la Peur (Edition aux Trois Couleurs, Paris 1946) and reproduced with permission in Bertram, Barbara, French Resistance in Sussex pp. xii–xiv

Chapter 11: Station 43: Audley End

1    Colville, John, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1945 17 September 1939

2    Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island, p. 168

3    Valentine, Ian, Station 43: Audley End House and SOE’s Polish Section p. xiv

4    Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island, p. 156

5    Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island, p. 61

6    Kirkpatrick, Roger, Audley End at War p. 7

7    Kirkpatrick, Roger, Audley End at War p. 7

8    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 58

9    Kirkpatrick, Roger Audley End at War p. 9

10    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 60

11    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p.4

12    Popham, Hugh The FANY in Peace and War p. 27

13    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 32

14    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 75

15    Thompson, Dorothy (2 March 1945) Major Questions Unanswered Pittsburgh Post-Gazette p. 8

16    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 78

17    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 84

18    Murray, Ingram, Secret Communications in World War II Mrs Bingham’s Unit – the Free FANYs and ‘the Org’ published in Bugle & Sabre 2015 p. 28

19    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 87

20    Dodds-Parker, Douglas, Setting Europe Ablaze p. 120

21    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 89

22    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War p. 89

23    Popham, Hugh, The FANY in Peace and War pp. 89–90

24    Niven, Lady Pamela, unpublished MS IWM 05/76/1 p. 2

25    Lady Sue Ryder IWM Oral History 10057

26    Lady Sue Ryder IWM Oral History 10057

27    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 pp. 40–41

28    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 77

29    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 93

30    English Heritage Recollection of Corporal P Howe

31    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 100

32    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 101

33    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 100

34    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 116

35    Adam Benrad IWM Oral History 8683

36    Adam Benrad IWM Oral History 8683

37    Adam Benrad IWM Oral History 8683

38    Adam Benrad IWM Oral History 8683

39    Iranek-Osmecki, Silent pp. 11–12

40    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 109

41    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 pp. 47–8

42    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 135

43    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 135

44    Adam Benrad IWM Oral History 8683

45    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 186

46    Lees-Milne, James, Diaries 1942–1954 p. 152

47    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 171

48    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p. 97

Chapter 12: The Army at Home

1    Robinson, John Martin, The Country House at War p. 161

2    Longmate, Norman, How We Lived Then p. 470

3    Titmuss, Richard, Problems of Social Policy pp. 371–372

4    Jeffrey Morrell in conversation with JS 30 November 2014

5    Jeffrey Morrell in conversation with JS 30 November 2014

6    Robinson, John Martin, The Country House at War p. 169

7    Robinson, John Martin, Requisitioned p. 131

8    Hyde-Parker, Lady Ulla, National Trust Guide to Melford Hall 1960, introduction

9    Seebohm, Caroline, The Country House: A Wartime History 1939–45 p. 58

10    Robinson, J. M., The Country House at War p. 132

11    Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942

12    Longmate, Norman, How We Lived Then p. 479

13    Captain Nation’s film narrated by US colleague

14    Captain Nation’s film narrated by US colleague

15    Country Life, 1937, email sent to CL 28-6-17

16    Lees Milne, James, Melford Hall, Suffolk, A property of the National Trust p. 3

17    Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie: A memory of Beatrix Potter p. 29

18    Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie: A memory of Beatrix Potter p. 29

19    Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie: A memory of Beatrix Potter p. 29

20    Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie: A memory of Beatrix Potter pp. 29-30

21    Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie: A memory of Beatrix Potter p. 31

22    Hyde Parker, Ulla, Cousin Beatie: A memory of Beatrix Potter p. 31

23    BBC People’s War David Ford

24    Beth Hyde-Parker now Lady Camoys to JS 9 August 2016

25    East Anglian Daily Times 26 February 1942

26    Mary King speaking to Sir Richard Hyde Parker 2 December 2007

Conclusion: Restoration and Reintegration

1    Longmate, Norman, How We Lived Then p. 499

2    Cartland, Barbara, The Years of Opportunity 1939–1945 p. 265

3    Calder, Angus, The People’s War p. 586

4    Robinson, John Martin, The Country House at War p. 2

5    Robinson, John Martin, The Country House at War p. 163

6    Roscoe, Barley, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie: A Potter’s Life 1895–1985 p. 19

7    Evening Advertiser, 24 September 1952

8    Lees-Milne, James, Diaries 1942–1954 14 June 1946

9    Robinson, John Martin, The Country House at War p. 172

10    Robinson, John Martin, Requisitioned p. 54

11    Martin Robinson, John Martin, Requisitioned p. 54

12    Blumenau, Ralph, A History of Malvern College 1865–1965 p. 133

13    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 126

14    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor, p. 126

15    Lees-Milne, James, Diaries 1942–1954 16 May 1946

16    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 132

17    Rothschild, Mrs James de, The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor p. 122

18    New York Times 28 July 1983

19    New York Times 28 July 1983

20    Agnes R. Hartman to Dorothy and James de Rothschild 9 August 1946. © Waddesdon Manor Archive

21    Draft of Dorothy de Rothschild’s speech to the Cedar Boys, 1983 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

22    Peter Gortatowsky to James and Dorothy de Rothschild 22 March 1946 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

23    Peter Gortatowsky to Dorothy de Rothschild 6 July 1983 © Waddesdon Manor Archive

24    Lees-Milne, James, Diaries 1942-1954 1 March 1946

25    http://www.brocket-hall.co.uk

26    The Assumption Chronicle, October 1944

27    Evelyn Waugh to Ann Fleming, 1958

28    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox, p. 298

29    Waugh, Evelyn, The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox, p. 301

30    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected p. 50

31    Meakin, Avril, Howick’s Seven Tales of the Unexpected p. 56

32    Valentine, Ian, Station 43 p.177

33    Mackenzie, Compton, Dr Beneš p. 340

34    Beith, Richard, The Postal History of the Free Czechoslovak Forces in Great Britain 1940–1945 p. iii

35    Franz Kaplan, Czechoslovak Forces – Cholmondeley Park 25 May 2000

36    Linderman, A. R. B., Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive p. 127

37    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE (introduction)

38    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 217

39    Clement Attlee to Lord Selborne 21 June 1946

40    Linderman, A. R. B., Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive pp 178-9

41    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 239

42    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE p. 242

43    Wilkinson, Peter and Bright Astley, Joan, Gubbins & SOE89%