by Damien Lewis
4. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 373/46/62 – Langton MC Recommendation.
5. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 373/46/6424 – Hillman MM Recommendation.
6. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: Documents.241 – The Private Papers of Colonel T. B. Langton.
7. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 30103 – Lecture entitled ‘Desert Survival Experiences’ given by British civilian J. W. Sillito at SAS Regimental Association, date unknown.
Chapter Five
1. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 373/46 – Citation for Military Medal.
2. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 201/751 – Operations Agreement, Bigamy + Nicety.
3. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 201/735 – Reports on Operations at Benghazi September 1942.
4. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 244/7 – Operation Avalanche: Lessons Learned.
5. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 204/1424 – Operations Goblet and Slapstick: outline plans and orders of battle.
6. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 201/2778 – Avalanche, Buttress, Goblet, Slapstick: orders of battle.
7. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 170/7573 – Altamura Camp.
8. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 224/118 – 51 Italian POW Camp Altamura.
9. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 361/1898 – Prisoners of war, Italy: Camp 65, Gravina Altamura; International Red Cross reports.
10. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 224/127 – 65 Italian POW Camp Gravina Altamura.
11. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 224/130 – Campo 70.
12. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 18032 – Oral History: ‘John Edward “Jim” et al Almonds’ (Windfall Films), Recorded in 2001.
13. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 29806 – ‘The Archive Hour: SAS The Originals’: Gordon Stevens presents previously un-broadcast interviews with SAS founder David Stirling and other surviving members of the original SAS, recorded in 1987, BBC Radio 4.
14. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 30103 – Lecture entitled ‘Desert Survival Experiences’ given by British civilian J. W. Sillito at SAS Regimental Association, date unknown.
15. Daily Telegraph obituary, Major ‘Gentleman Jim’ Almonds, 13/09/2005: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1498251/Major-Gentleman-Jim-Almonds.html.
16. Independent obituary, Major Jim Almonds, 07/09/2005: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/major-jim-almonds-310747.html.
Chapter Six
1. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 204/1810 – Operation Shingle.
2. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 204/6856 – Operation Pomegranate.
3. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 373/25 – Military Cross Citation for Major Edward Antony Fitzherbert Widdrington.
4. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 373/96/457 – Military Cross Citation for Lieutenant Quentin Hughes.
5. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 208/3484 – ‘Escape from Italy of Brigadiers Armstrong, Stirling, Vaughn, Todhunter, Coombe’.
6. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 208/3320/94 – Escape Report from Brigadier Douglas Arnold Stirling.
7. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 208/3373 – Escape Operations.
8. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 29806 – ‘The Archive Hour: SAS The Originals’: Gordon Stevens presents previously un-broadcast interviews with SAS founder David Stirling and other surviving members of the original SAS, recorded in 1987, BBC Radio 4.
9. Imperial War Museum, ‘13/18 Hussars in 1940 Campaign: Part 1’ by Douglas Arnold Stirling, as part of the unclassified papers of D. A. Stirling held at the IWM.
10. Daily Telegraph Obituary, Quentin Hughes, 18 May 2004: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1462120/Quentin-Hughes.html.
11. Battle of Britain Historical Society: ‘Aircraft of the Luftwaffe: Junkers Ju 88 Specifics’: https://www.battleofbritain1940.net/0016.html.
12. Remembrance NI: ‘SAS men from Northern Ireland executed by the Gestapo’: https://remembranceniorg.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/remembrance-ni-sas.pdf.
13. Paratrooper.Be, ‘Escape Compasses’: https://www.paratrooper.be/articles/escape-compasses/.
Chapter Seven
1. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 218/202 – Operation Loyton Report.
2. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 208/3324/189 – Fiddick, R. L. Escape/Evasion Reports.
3. National Archives Catalogue Number: AIR 14/34112 – ‘Bomber Command Night Operations 28th/29th July 1944’.
4. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 218/222 – ‘2nd Special Air Service Missing Parachutists’.
5. National Archives Catalogue Number: WO 208/3324 – ‘M19 Evaded Capture in France’.
6. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 18033 – Oral History: ‘Lew et al Fiddick’, TVS (Gordon Stevens), Recorded in 1987.
7. Imperial War Museum Catalogue Number: 18032 – Oral History: ‘Henry Carey Druce’, TVS (Gordon Stevens), Recorded in 1987.
8. ‘The War Years’ by Lew Fiddick, unpublished memoir, personal communication.
9. ‘Fiddick, Lew: My Bomber Command Experience’ – interviewed by Isabelle Carey, 26 March 2015, http://contentdm.library.uvic.ca/cdm/ref/collection/collection13/id/2880.
10. ‘Remembering Sherman Peabody’, Bishop’s University blog, 26 July 2017, Dr Michael Childs, Sean Summerfield and Megan Whitworth: https://blog.ubishops.ca/remembering-sherman-peabody/.
11. ‘What Happened to Sherman Peabody’, 2018 Bishop’s University film. Directed by Sarah Fournier and Produced by Michael Childs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsrxrSUrSoc&feature=youtu.be.
12. ‘A Second World War Mystery Solved: 75 Years Later, A Transatlantic Team Retraces Two Lost Canadians’, Eric Reguly, The Globe and Mail, 06/07/2019: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-a-second-world-war-mystery-solved-75-years-later-a-transatlantic/.
13. ‘Swallowed into Dusk: Missing Airmen during the Second World War’, Sean Summerfield, 2018, Sean Summerfield, personal communication.
14. Daily Telegraph obituary, Major Henry Druce, 07/02/2007: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1541780/Major-Henry-Druce.html.
15. Times Colonist obituary, Lew Fiddick, 26/11/2016: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timescolonist/obituary.aspx?n=lewis-fiddick&pid=182767811.
16. Private papers of Fred ‘Dusty’ Rhodes, personal communication from Phil Rhodes, including various Operation Loyton war diary entries.
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