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Long Shot on discovering the death date of Lt. Col. Robin William George Stephens

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For the last few years, I’ve been scratching away at the personal history of Tin-Eye (Robin W.G.) Stephens, former commandant of MI5s secret interrogation centre, Camp 020. I’ve discovered quite a bit about Tin-Eye – his parents, his brother who died in WWI, the death of his second wife. But the death of Stephens continues […]

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Another Dead-End with Tin-Eye Stephens

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A few weeks back, I ordered the Army Personnel Record for Robert/Robin William George Stephens, former Commandant of MI5’s wartime interrogation centre, Camp 020. I’ve discovered quite a bit about Stephens through other sources, but his date of death still eludes me. Given that Hinchley-Cooke’s Army file noted his death, I had hopes that Stephens’

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RSLO Cambridge – Cyril Egerton Dixon

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In the early years of World War II, particularly 1940 and 1941, MI5 was inundated with reports of suspicious people, flashing lights, strange markings on telegraph poles and spies dressed as nuns. In the middle of June 1940, MI5 appointed Regional Security Liaison Officers (R.S.L.O.) to the headquarters of the two Civil Defence Regions seen

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