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Group Captain Hugh Verity 16 November 2001 • Obituary courtesy of The Daily Telegraph GROUP Captain Hugh Verity, who has died aged 83, was a member of the small group of RAF pilots who flew clandestine missions to support Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents and the French Resistance during…
…capture and escape to GB, 8/1941-12/1941. Aspects of operations commanding 165 Sqdn, No 11 Group, Fighter Command, RAF in GB, 4/1942-8/1942: formation of squadron at RAF Ayr, 4/1942; role escorting Soviet Foreign Minister Vycheslav Molotov’s aircraft on his visit to GB, 5/1942; how his association with agent/traitor Harold Coles resulted…
…Air Efficiency Award in 1946, and after commanding RAF Wartling, in East Sussex, retired in 1964. Thereafter, until final retirement, he worked as an estate agent at Eastbourne. He was a member of Cooden Beach golf club and, having retained his drumming skills, played with a local band. Later in…
…that Alan Pollock met many of ‘The Few’, and was later inspired to undertake this project. Her brother, Harold Blyth, was a Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) handler and ran the Danish double agent Ib Riis, who fed false information back to the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service. Engaging visual…
“She was one of the most remarkable young women of her generation” “Shortly before D-Day, a plan to evacuate her and two other agents was aborted by the Gestapo. She was the first to be caught. But even as she was being captured, she succeeded in warning her comrades so…