Sidney Jones CdeGMBE (1902–1944) was a British Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. He was captured and executed by the Germans.
Sidney Charles Jones was born in France on 25 November 1902, the son of Charles and Emily Louise Jones.[citation needed] Before the war he worked as Elizabeth Arden’s representative in France.[1]
Wartime activitiesedit
He was nearly 40 when he arrived in the French Riviera by felucca in late September 1942 with the mission of establishing the INVENTOR network as a sabotage circuit in Marseilles.[2] Before the German occupation of Vichy France in November 1942 he had set up several sabotage teams which had burnt fifty goods wagons destined for Germany, and had damaged port installations. After five months in the field, Jones then returned to England.[1]
On the night of 14 May 1943 he was brought by Lysander piloted by Hugh Verity, with Marcel Clech as wireless operator, and Vera Leigh as courier, to re-form the INVENTOR network, working alongside DONKEYMAN, with Jones as liaison officer and arms instructor.[1][3]
^ abcdefSOE in France an account of the work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944, MRD Foot, HMSO, London, 1966.
^National Archives : 9/809/5 - Sidney Charles JONES
^Operation: INVENTOR; reception organized by Henri Déricourt ; field: FLU, near Tours ; doubled by Lysander ; pilots: squadron leader Hugh Verity and flying officer Rymills; people infiltrated : Sidney Jones, Marcel Clech, Vera Leigh, Julienne Aisner ; people exfiltrated: Francis Suttill, France Antelme (?), Mrs. Gouin (?). [Hugh Verity, p. 266.]
Further readingedit
MRD Foot, SOE in France an account of the work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944, HMSO, London, 1966.
January 01, 1970
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