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Sir William Samuel Stephenson CC MC DFC (born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, 23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the Western Allies during World War II.
Stephenson, William Samuel, Roald Dahl, Tom Hill and Gilbert Highet (introduced by Nigel West), British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940–1945, Fromm International (June 1999) – ISBN 0-88064-236-X (first published in the UK in 1998) Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb (National Endowment for the ...
According to author William Stevenson in A Man Called Intrepid, his biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson (no relation), the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, [59] Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down.
A view of part of the site of Camp X looking toward Lake Ontario. Camp X was established December 6, 1941, by the chief of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba and a close confidant of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [7]
Sir Roger Jacques [18] Merchant, and MP for York, 1640 1640–1641: Sir Robert Belt [18] Merchant 1641–1642: Sir Christopher Croft [18] Mercer 1642–1644: Sir Edmund Cooper [18] Merchant. Start of the English Civil War. York was initially held by the Royalists . [19] [20] 1644–1645: Sir Edmund Cooper displaced and replaced by Thomas Hoyle [18]
Sir Cyril William Hurcomb, KCB, KBE, Director-General, Ministry of War Transport. His Highness Maharaja Sir Sri Jaya Chamaraja-Wadiyar Bahadur , GCSI , Maharaja of Mysore . Sir Arthur William Street , KCB, KBE, CMG, CIE, MC , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry 1939–45.
This is a list of Military Crosses awarded in the 1918 New Year Honours.. The 1918 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire.
Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, also known as Betty Pack, Betty Thorpe, Elizabeth Pack, and Amy Brousse; (November 22, 1910 – December 1, 1963) was an Anglo-American spy, codenamed Cynthia, who worked for British Security Coordination (BSC) which was set up in New York City in 1940 during World War II by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).