I had a comment on one of my Stephens blogs the other day from Stephen D. Stephen had tracked down a London Gazette notice dated 22 May 1942 relating to the second “wife” of Robin Stephens. It would appear that Joan Geraldine Pearson Dowling may not have married Robin Stephens, but simply undergone a legal […]
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A couple of blogs ago, I introduced another notebook mystery from the files of German spy, Josef Jakobs. During his court martial on August 4 and 5, 1941, Josef was presented with a notebook, contained in a wallet, which apparently contained dates, times and locations of possible assignations with other German agents. I initially thought
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It’s been a while since I wrote a post on Lt. Col. Robin William George Stephens, a.k.a. Tin-Eye Stephens, fearsome former commandant of MI5s secret wartime interrogation centre, Camp 020. I have, through this blog and my website, made contact with a distant relative of Stephens. Together, I’m hoping that we might crack the case
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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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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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At the end of World War II, Brigadier Oswald Allen Harker, Deputy Director General of MI5 asked Lt. Col. George Frederick Sampson to write a brief history of Camp 020. In late September 1945, Sampson submitted his report to Harker and then retired from the Security Service, taking a job with the United Nations. At
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Last year, I wrote a blog about the famous (or infamous) Commandant of MI5’s secret interrogation centre, Camp 020 (also known as Ham Common or Latchmere House): Lt. Col. Robin William George Stephens. I always find it fascinating to dig into the personal histories of some of these characters and Stephens was one of the
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After the previous post on Colonel R.W.G. Stephens was published, a magazine I had ordered online almost a month previous finally came in the mail. It had a four page article on Robin Stephens written by Chris Bilham. Review The article was quite extensive and stitched together the scanty facts of Robin’s life into a
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When Josef Jakobs arrived at Camp 020 in 1941, he was interrogated by Tin-Eye Stephens, commandant of the Camp. Lt. Col. Stephens was a fearsome man who had little patience for fools and was rather xenophobic in his relations with people of other nationalities, particularly Germans. Who was this man and how did he come
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