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
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
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
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%