Thursday, February 22, 2007

⧫ Government Personnel


Politicians
anti-appeasers
appeasers
female politicians -- '31

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
Anti-Churchill: Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye, MC*, PC; Under-Secretary of State for Air
Beaverbrook ..
Anti-App - Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, PC
Chamberlain ..
Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield - Minister for Coordination of Defence
Churchill ..
Churchill Chiefs of Staff ..
Churchill War Ministry ..
Pro-Armament: Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
Baldwin Ally: Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, Secretary of War, 1937–1940
Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh
Inskip, Thomas - 1st Viscount Caldecote - Minister for Coordination of Defence from 1936 until 1939 .

War Cabinet: 
Anti-App - Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield MC; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1940 to 1945 in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government
Ralph Follett Wigram CMG
App - Chamberlain Ally: Sir Horace John Wilson - Wilson, Horace ..

MAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ..
MHS - Ministry of Home Security ..
MoF - Ministry of Food ..
MoI - Ministry of Information ..

War Leaders versus Press ..

War Office ..

Minister/Ministry of Food
Ministers of Information
Ministry - War Ministry

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

⧫ Intelligence Officers

⧫ Espionage ..


Bletchley Park:
Alan Mathison Turing, Bletchley Park
William Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park, MITRE
Intelligence:
Reginald Victor Jones - physicist
Major-General Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, "K" -- founder (1909) and first Director of the British Security Service, otherwise known as MI5 (until 1940)
Charles Henry Maxwell Knight OBE, known as Maxwell Knight, "M" British intelligence officer in charge of MI5 departments dealing with counter-subversion on home ground

Sir John Cecil Masterman OBE; chairman Twenty Committee, Double Cross System
Thomas (TAR) Argyll Robertson -- MI5 -- XX
SBS: elite forces: Roger James Allen Courtney MC, Jumbo, established the Special Boat Sections during WWII
SBS: elite forces: George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Commander of the Special Boat Regiment Middle East
Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL
Lieutenant-Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, ["Mad Jack"] DSO & Bar, MC & Bar 

⧫ Inventors, Engineers, Scientists

Inventors, Engineers, Scientists - 20th C

Agriculturalists, Horticulturalists:
Balfour, Lady Eve - organic farming pioneer ..
Liebig - Justus von Liebig 

Biochemists, Nutritionists:
Drummond, Jack - nutritionist ..

Chemists
Liebig - Justus von Liebig 

Civilian, Organizers:
Denman - Trudie, Baroness Denman .. WIWLA .

Engineering Companies

Engineers: 
John Logie Baird FRSE, inventor, television
Caroline Haslett, British engineer
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
Caroline Haslett, British engineer
Christopher Hawkes - archaeologist
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis CBE FRS RDI FRAeS - English scientist, engineer and inventor

Inventors
Hedy Lamarr and the Torpedo  
John Logie Baird FRSE, inventor, television
Major General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, "Hobo", command of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II -- specialised armoured vehicles = "Hobart's Funnies".

Ophthalmology
Nesfield, Vincent Blumhardt (1879 - 1972)

Physicians - St. Bart's
Keynes, Geoffrey - St Bart's ..

Friday, February 16, 2007

⧫ MI5, OSS

MI5
Major-General Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, "K" -- founder (1909) and first Director of the British Security Service, otherwise known as MI5 (until 1940)
Sir John Cecil Masterman OBE; chairman Twenty Committee, Double Cross System
Charles Henry Maxwell Knight OBE, known as Maxwell Knight, "M" British intelligence officer in charge of MI5 departments dealing with counter-subversion on home ground
Thomas (TAR) Argyll Robertson -- MI5 -- XX
Monty - Field Marshal Bernard Law *Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.
Anti-Appeasement - Major Sir Desmond Morton
Lord Louis Mountbatten - Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (1943–46)


⧫ Military Officers

Air Warfare Advocates of 1920sGeneral Giulio Douhet > , Walther Wever, Brigadier General William L. (Billy) Mitchell and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
D-Day Who's Who ..
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, WWI BEF
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, DSO
German Military
von Stauffenberg, Claus .. 



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