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Station IXc - Fishguard Bay Hotel, [4] Goodwick, Pembrokeshire - Submersibles work in Fishguard Bay. (Station X - the original name for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire that continued to be used as a nickname for BP after it went on to greater things.) Station XI - Old Gorhambury House near St Albans, Hertfordshire - Accommodation.
An SOE station, first called the "India Mission," and subsequently known as "GS I(k)," was set up in India late in 1940. It subsequently moved to Ceylon so as to be closer to the headquarters of the Allied South East Asia Command and became known as " Force 136 ."
Station IX (formerly known as the Inter-Services Research Bureau) was a secret British Special Operations Executive factory making special weapons and equipment during World War II. The small Welbike paratrooper's motorcycle and the Welrod assassination weapon were both products of the station.
Josephine B (1941) – France, sabotage of transformer sub station Pessac. Pilchard (1942) – France, sabotage of Matisse works, Versailles, and BREWER Radio Paris at Allouis. Sainfoin (1944) – France, September Pantarlier region, working behind enemy lines in advance of Allies. Savanna (1941) – and France, sabotage of Vannes aerodrome.
From 1941, Briggens House was used by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) as the main forgery operation to support their secret agents and undercover special forces. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] When the house was requisitioned by the War Office the family was allowed to stay in residence which was very rare in cases such as this.
The Thatched Barn was a two-storey mock-Tudor hotel built in the 1930s on the Barnet by-pass in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England.It was bought by holiday camp founder, Billy Butlin, before being requisitioned as Station XV by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in World War Two, and used to train secret agents.
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Usage seems to have slipped over time and the Roman 'X' came to be spoken of as the letter of mystery, ie 'X'. There was no ISRB, SO(E), SO 2 or finally SOE Station X as any person interested can determine for themselves if they care to make enquiry of the records held at The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office) of the United Kingdom.