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Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent awarded the Legion d'Honneur

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That night the unit – which specialised in cross-Channel raids, snatching prisoners for interrogation and recceing enemy installations – infiltrated the tiny island off the coast of Normandy, arriving by specially-silenced motor torpedo boat.
Renowned for their daring and fearlessness, they killed a guard and captured five Germans, binding their hands. But the prisoners resisted and raised the alarm. The order was given to shoot any who tried to flee. Three ended up dead and only one was taken back alive for questioning. A couple of weeks later an incensed Hitler, who believed shackled prisoners had been shot after surrendering, issued his Commando Order, a death sentence for any operative taken captive during a Commando raid. ....

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Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent

Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent
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Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent awarded the Legion d'Honneur

Scotsman obituaries: James Edgar, Special Operations Executive agent awarded the Legion d’Honneur
Alison Shaw
Vet and Special Operations Executive agent. Born: 21 May, 1920, in Pietersburg, South Africa. Died: 17 March, 2021, in Perth, Australia, aged 100
© James Edgar served in the Channel Islands, France and Burma as part of ‘Churchill’s Secret Army’
James Edgar was one of the audacious undercover agents whose infamous raid on a Nazi-occupied Channel Island led to Hitler’s notorious Commando Order, decreeing that all captured Commandos be summarily executed.
Operating as part of the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) 62 Commando, Edgar took part in two Channel Island missions, including Operation Basalt to Sark in October 1942. ....

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