British Expeditionary Force (1939–40)
Brooke, Messrs R. (Birmingham musket makers)
Brooks, Tony
Brown, Arthur
Brun, Jomar
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Buckmaster, Maurice
Burgin, Leslie: conflict with Jefferis; heads Ministry of Supply
Burhenne, Korvettenkapitän Lothar
Burton, Sir Richard
Burundi (German ship)
Cabard, Sub-Lieutenant Raymond
Cairo
Camp X (Special Training School 123, USA)
Campbeltown, HMS: rams dock at St Nazaire; explodes
Capone, Al
Caravan and Trailer (magazine)
Carroll, Madeleine
Caxton Hall, London
Caxton Street, London
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chamberlain, Neville: on Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia; declares war on Germany; and Jefferis’s expedition to Norway; resigns
Channel Islands: commando raid on
Chant, Stuart
Chariot, Operation
Charrot, Pilot Officer John
Chidson, Colonel
Churchill, Mary
Churchill, (Sir) Winston: Jefferis meets over use of W-bomb; supports unorthodox warfare; visit to Paris; and German invasion of Norway; praises Clarke’s excavating machine; succeeds Chamberlain as Prime Minister; and prospective German invasion; approves Sticky Bomb; and arming of Auxiliary Units; supports Gubbins’s guerrilla work; attends Blacker Bombard demonstration; forms MD1 department; forms Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (SOE); ‘Toyshop’ at the Firs, Buckinghamshire; wariness of Dalton; informed of sabotage of Pessac transformers; alarm at U-boat sinkings; supports Macrae; witnesses weaponry demonstrations; supports Fairbairn against Spears; on threat of Tirpitz; on success of attack on St Nazaire; demands updates from the Firs; awards CBE to Jefferis; discusses special operations; endorses Selborne’s assessment of Gubbins; recognizes Czech government in exile; approves assassination of Heydrich; and destruction of Asopos viaduct; supports attack on Norsk Hydro; grants awards to Norwegian saboteurs of Norsk Hydro; prevents Donovan operating in Balkans; and success of Peugeot factory sabotage; appoints Gubbins head of Baker Street; Gubbins meets in Cairo; increases air support for French resistance; appoints Jefferis KBE; proposes preserving samples of all weapons produced at the Firs; and winding down of Baker Street
clam (explosive device)
Clarke, Ann
Clarke, Cecil: caravan; recruited; Macrae contacts; prepares for war; develops magnetic limpet mine; studies weaponry and warfare; designs hydraulic excavating machine; Gubbins seeks help from; character and behaviour; posted to Aston House; writes guide to sabotage; invents tree spigot; training and demonstrations at Brickendonbury; plans attack on Pessac; adapts trawler Maid Honour; sees use of spigot mortar at sea; sends agents abroad; devises assassination grenade for Heydrich; experience and mental collapse in Italy; successes; transfers to the Firs; invents Aero-Switch; invents rocket-fired bridges; praised; invents bridge-laying machine (‘Great Eastern’); post-war activities; Blue Book; The Development of Weapon Potential
Clarke, David (Cecil’s son)
Clarke, Dorothy (Cecil’s wife)
Clarke, John (Cecil’s son)
Coche, Captain (French officer)
Cockleshell Raid (Bordeaux harbour)
Coker (skipper of Vulcan tug)
Coleshill House, Wiltshire
Colley, Peter
Collins, Michael
Combined Operations
Commandos: formed; in St Nazaire operation; raids on French coast; failed attack on Norsk Hydro
Copland, Major
Costobadie, Dick
Cournil, Bernard
Coward, Noël
Croft, Andrew
Curda, Karel
Curteis, Hugh
Cvetkovic, Dragisa
Czechoslovakia: Hitler occupies; agents and operations in; see also Heydrich, Reinhard
D, Section: nature and scope
D-Day: planning; small guerrilla units formed
Daily, Edward
Daladier, Edouard
Dalton, Hugh: in charge of guerrilla warfare; visits Brickendonbury; praises success of Pessac attack; on capture of Duchessa d’Aosta; enhances Gubbins’s responsibilities; on Hambro; praises Gubbins
Davies, Captain Jock
Davies, Tommy
Department of Miscellaneous Weapons’ Development
Dockerill, Arthur
Dodds-Parker, Douglas
Doenitz, Admiral Karl
Donovan, Colonel William (‘Wild Bill’)
Drake, Sir Francis
Drumintoul, Scotland
Duchessa d’Aosta (Italian liner)
Duff, Robin
Dunderdale, Wilfred (‘Biffy’)
Dunkirk evacuation (1940)
Eden, Anthony
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.
Elsie, Aunt (Gubbins’s)
England, USS
Enigma machine: removed from Poland
Epstein, Jacob: Paul Robeson (bust)
Fairbairn, William (‘Shanghai Buster’): background; trains recruits at Arisaig; transferred to Camp X in USA; Gubbins praises; honoured by Americans; post-war activities
Falkenhorst, General Nikolaus von
Farrant, Ralph
Fawcett, Colonel Percy
Fell, Captain William
Fernando Po
Fildes, Paul
Firs, the, Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire: requisitioned as HQ for Jefferis and Macrae; closed down
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)
Fleming, Ian
Fleming, Peter: recruited; background; heads Auxiliary Units in S.E. England; in Greece
Forman, Sergeant Jean-Pierre: leads attack on Pessac transformers
France: Germany invades (1940); sabotage and guerrillas before D-Day; agents and saboteurs in; Allied invasion (1944)
Franck, Louis
Franco Signs (company)
Frankton, Operation
Free French Section
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Freshman, Operation
Gabčik, Josef
Galtesund (coastal steamer)
Gano, General Stanislav
Gardening Magazine
Gaulle, General Charles de
Gaynes Hall, Cambridgeshire
Georg, Prince of Denmark
George VI, King: on outbreak of war; visits Gubbins’s exhibition of explosive devices; praises Gubbins
German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
Germany: naval expansion; advance into France; overruns Low Countries; invasion threat to England; plans for occupied Britain; calls off invasion of England; bombed; see also Hitler, Adolf
Gestapo: impressed by Heydrich assassination
Giffard, Sir George
Gillard, Frank
Gocher, Ernest
Godden (Vice-Consul in Fernando Po)
Goodeve, Charles
Gorgopotamos viaduct, Greece
Gouldstone, Leslie
Grand, Lawrence: appearance and character; Gubbins meets; and German invasion threat; at Brickendonbury
Greece: agents and sabotage in; Operation Harling
Grigg, Edward
Grouse, Operation
Gubbins, Anne Elise (Colin’s second wife)
Gubbins, Colin: background and qualities; Joan Bright’s view of; joins Section D; compiles manuals on unorthodox warfare; inventions; and recruiting guerrillas; visit to Poland; moves to War Office at outbreak of war; in Paris; guerrilla campaign in Norway; awarded DSO; on importance of training; on German advance into France; and counter to German invasion threat; guerrilla principles; Dalton appoints Director of Operations and Training at Baker Street; Margaret Jackson on; employs women; New Year’s Eve parties; moves to Norgeby House; recruits Clarke; requisitions Brickendonbury Manor; and success of Pessa
c attack; visits the Firs; trains men in art of killing; meets Sykes and Fairbairn; forms elite strike-force; meets March-Phillips; sanctions March-Phillips’s requisitioning of Maid Honour; and March-Phillips’s expedition to West Africa; reputation; plans attack on St Nazaire; on nature of sabotage; inner circle; argues for more planes; responsibilities increased; on Hambro; marital strains; stress; and assassination of Heydrich; aims to surpass Nazis; and operations in Greece; arranges Clarke’s move to Arisaig and the Firs; favours Rheam as director of Brickendonbury Manor; on threat of Norsk Hydro plant; plans attack on Norsk Hydro; and team attacking Norsk Hydro; told of success of Norsk Hydro attack; dislikes criticism from senior officers; cooperates with Americans; on defeating Germany in France; and broadcast messages to overseas listeners; supports Ree; and sabotage of Peugeot factory; and Ree’s success in France; kept informed of fortunes of sabotage missions; succeeds Hambro as head of Baker Street; and son’s death; divorce; prepares for D-Day; praised; and successes in France; and winding down of Baker Street; awarded Légion d’Honneur by de Gaulle; maintains relations with Joan Bright and Margaret Jackson after war; post-war career; achievements; remarries (Anne Elise); retirement to Isle of Harris and death; The Art of Guerrilla Warfare; The Partisan Leaders’ Handbook
Gubbins, Michael (Colin’s son): killed
Gubbins, Mouse (Colin’s sister)
Gubbins, Nonie (Colin’s first wife)
Gubbins, Rory (Colin’s son)
guerrillas: recruiting; undervalued by SIS; in British counter-invasion plans (Auxiliary Units); success in Greece
Guise, Leonard (agent W10)
Gunnerside, Operation
Gwyn, John
Hales, Cecily
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of
Hambro, Sir Charles
Hamilton-Hill, Donald
Hampton, Major
Hamson, Denys
Hardanger Plateau, Norway
Harling, Operation
Harris, Sir Arthur
Hartley, Mr (chemist of Kay Brothers)
Hasler, Herbert (‘Blondie’)
Hassel, Ian
Hauger, Monsieur
Haugland, Knut
Haukelid, Knut: in attack on Norsk Hydro; remains in Norway to destroy heavy water
Hayes, Graham
heavy water: in Norway
Hedgehog (anti-U-boat mortar): developed; US Navy’s successful use of
Helberg, Claus
Henderson, Michael
Hesketh-Prichard, Alfgar
Heydrich, Reinhard: assassination
Hill, Max
Hitler, Adolf: annexes Czechoslovakia; strengthens navy; occupies Lithuania; peace efforts; advance into France (1940); and invasion of Norway; invades Low Countries; invasion threat to England; calls off invasion of England; invades Soviet Union; fury at St Nazaire raid; orders captured commandos to be shot; reaction to Heydrich assassination; and Norwegian heavy water; see also Germany
Hoare, Sir Samuel
Hockey, Flight Lieutenant Ron
Holdworth, Gerry
Holland: Germans invade
Holland, Joe: heads MI(R); recruits Gubbins; character
Home Guard
Hopkins (Churchill’s bodyguard)
Household, Geoffrey
Hughes-Hallett, John
Hydro (Norwegian train ferry)
I-16 (Japanese submarine)
Idland, Kasper
Independent Companies: formed
Inverailort House, Scotland
Ironside, General William Edmund
Ismay, General Hastings (‘Pug’)
Italy: declares war on Britain
Jacks, Dr L.P.
Jackson, Margaret: replaces Joan Bright as Gubbins’s secretary; working hours; inside and confidential knowledge; and assassination of Heydrich; and planning of Norsk Hydro operation; on Sochaux; briefs Gubbins; and death of Gubbins’s son; post-war career and death
Japan: submarines in Pacific; surrenders
Jebb, Gladwyn
Jedburghs (guerrilla teams)
Jefferis, David and Jeremy (Millis–Ruth’s sons)
Jefferis, John (Millis–Ruth’s son)
Jefferis, Sir Millis: meets and recruits Macrae; and magnetic mine; qualities and interests; heads MI(R)c unit; develops detonator switch; moves to War Office; conflict with Burgin; sends explosives to Balkans; meets Churchill over use of W-bomb; Macrae’s view of; Churchill supports; in Norway; and supply of Gubbins’s Norway guerrillas; fined for speeding; endorses Clarke’s talents; supplies Gubbins’s Auxiliary Units; develops Sticky Bomb; temper; and Blacker Bombard; interest in caravans; marriage relations; team designated MDI; works at the Firs, Buckinghamshire; plans defeat of U-boats; working hours; invents Hedgehog anti-U-boat mortar; meets Goodeve; and Churchill’s visit to the Firs; adapts trawler Maid Honour; develops delayed fuse (L-Delay); and St Nazaire operation; relations with Macrae; production rates for weaponry; appointed CBE; Clarke joins at the Firs; senior officers appreciate; advanced equipment; develops PIAT anti-tank projector and Beehives; indifference to news of use of weaponry; on winning war; weapons shown in private exhibition; weaponry in sabotage for D-Day; praised; celebrations at war’s end; and war in Far East; appointed Chief Engineer to Indian Army; appointed KBE; How to Use Explosives
Jefferis, Ruth (Millis’s wife)
Jodl, General Alfred
Johnson, Celia
Jones, Geoffrey
Josephine B, Operation
Kämpfe, Major Helmut
Kampfgeschwader 100 (German bomber squadron)
Kay Brothers (company)
Kayser, Fredrik
Kemp, Peter
Kent: as prospective German invasion site
Killiemore House, Mull
Kinematograph Engineering Company
Kjelstrup, Arne
Klein, Oberscharführer Johannes
Koehler, George
Kubis, Jan
L-Delay (fuse)
Lake, Peter
Lambe, Captain Charles
Lammerding, General Heinz Bernard
Lancastria (ship)
Langley, Colonel
Larsen, Alf
Lassen, Anders (‘the Viking’)
Laversuch, Victor (agent W4)
Letac, Joel
Levick, George Murray
Lezaky, Czechoslovakia
Lidice, Czechoslovakia
Likomba (German ship)
Lindemann, Frederick: travels to Paris with Churchill; and Clarke’s excavating machine; and Blacker Bombard; as Jefferis–Churchill go-between; encourages Jefferis; visits the Firs; and German possession of heavy water; employs Tuck; and Jefferis’s development of PIAT; on quantity of weapons produced at the Firs; and Jefferis’s appointment in India
Linge, Captain Martin
Lippett, Richard (agent W25)
Lithuania
Lloyd-Jones, ‘Boy’: visit to Poland
Loehr, General Alexander
LoLode (the Low Load Trailer Company)
Lovat, Simon Christopher Fraser, 15th Lord
Lucas, Pierre
Luhr, Heinrich
Luxembourg: Germans invade
Maclean, Fitzroy
McNaughton, General Andrew
Macpherson, Tommy
Macrae, Mary
Macrae, Stuart: background; contacts Clarke; prepares for war; develops magnetic mine; works with Jefferis; and explosives in War Office building; engages assistants and experts; and payment for Clarke’s mines; joins Jefferis at MI(R)c; interest in caravans; accompanies Churchill to Paris; and Churchill’s support; funding; moves to Portland Place; and manufacture and success of Sticky Bomb; marriage relations; at the Firs, Buckinghamshire; Langley blames for Clarke’s breach of security; and Clarke’s transfer to Gubbins; criticises Time Pencil; develops clam (explosive device); hires female staff; keeps financial accounts; celebrates Jefferis’s CBE
; welcomes Clarke’s move to the Firs; and Clarke’s Aero-Switch; and waning criticisms of Jefferis; equipment; increases staff; and Jefferis’s development of PIAT; uninformed of use of weapons; on effectiveness of Hedgehog; and celebrations at war’s end; and end of MD1
McVean, Grandpa
Maginot Line
magnetic mines: development
Maid Honour (trawler)
March-Phillipps, Gustavus (‘Gus’) Henry: heads elite strike-force; expedition to West Africa; proposed for St Nazaire operation; raids on French coast
Marinos, Thermistocles
Markham, Revd
Marks, Leo
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of
Marty factory, France
Masterman, Tom
Maynard, Daphne
MDI (department): formed; moves to the Firs, Buckinghamshire; dissolved
Mecke, Captain
Memel, Lithuania
Menzies, Stewart
Michie, Colin
Milton Hall, near Peterborough
MI(R) (unit)
MI(R)c (unit): Jefferis heads; Macrae joins; Churchill encourages; moves to Portland Place
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Monastir gap, Macedonia
Montgomery, General Bernard Law
Montgomery, Bob
Montilla, Señora
Moravec, Colonel Frantisek
Morgan, Brigadier Harold
Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Munich Agreement (1938)
Munroe effect (Charles Munroe’s theory)
Munthe, Malcolm
Mussolini, Benito
Myers, Eddie: leads attack on Gorgopotamos viaduct; builds guerrilla force in Greece
Naval Land Section
Nelson, Frank
Neptune, Operation
Newman, Colonel Charles
Newman, Eveleigh (‘Dumbo’)
Niko, Barba (‘Uncle’)
Norgeby House, Baker Street
Normandy: Allied landings (1944)
Norsk Hydro plant, Rjukan, Norway
Norway: Germans invade; campaign and guerrillas in; sabotage acts; Shetland Bus communicates with; see also Norsk Hydro plant