Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins, KCMG, DSO, MC (2 July 1896 – 11 February 1976) was the prime mover of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in...
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supply and aid ships constantly sunk by German submarines, Brigadier Colin Gubbins, with the indirect backing of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, prepares...
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The SFC was founded in 1945 on the initiative of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, the last Chief of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The club...
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charge of SOE Africa station submitted a report to the head of SOE Colin Gubbins reflecting on the success of Postmaster: "perhaps next time it will...
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replacement as director from September 1943 was Gubbins, who had been promoted to Major-general. Gubbins had wide experience of commando and clandestine...
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watercolour Colin Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC (1896–1976), prime mover of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Second World War David Gubbins (born 1947)...
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Leo Marks (section Reporting to Brigadier Gubbins)
mistake in his coding...." Marks had to face Brigadier (later Sir) Colin Gubbins: Described by Tommy [Marks' closest friend] as 'a real Highland toughie...
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department's head, Colonel J.C.F Holland, summoned Lieutenant Colonel Colin Gubbins, leading MI(R)'s mission in Paris, to prepare and train the troops....
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Menzies Kate Ashford as Rachel Cathcart Keith Allen as Major General Colin Gubbins Killing Hitler by Professor Duncan Anderson at BBC History Characters...
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suspicions about Kowerski. These were addressed in London by General Colin Gubbins – to be, from September 1943, head of SOE – in a letter of 17 June 1941...
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