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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.
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]
Vice Admiral Sir Gilbert Owen Stephenson, KBE, CB, CMG, DL (13 February 1878 – 27 May 1972) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy, a pioneer of anti-submarine techniques in the First World War and a distinguished naval training commandant in the Second World War.
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.
Macdonald, Bill, The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents, (Raincoast, 2001) – ISBN 1-55192-418-8 This book contains interviews with several Canadian employees of BSC in New York. Mahl, Thomas E., Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–44, (Brassey's Inc., 1999) ISBN 1-57488-223-6
Lovell, Mary S., Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II, Pantheon Books, 1992, ISBN 0-394-57556-3. Macdonald, Bill, The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents, Raincoast, 2001, ISBN 1-55192-418-8.
Throughout the course of Royal Navy's history there had been different squadrons stationed in home waters. One of the earliest known naval formations to be based at Plymouth was called the Western Squadron [2] [3] [4] which was the forerunner of the Channel Squadron that was later known as the Channel Fleet. [5]
Admiral Sir William Jock Whitworth, KCB, DSO (29 June 1884 – 25 October 1973) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1941 to 1944. Naval career