THE MOST SECRET LIST OF SOE AGENTS - Extract

[William Douglas]

DOUGLAS. Isabel Bridget - born 05.09.1922 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF
Series). Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31
December 1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence.

DOUGLAS. James Barrington - born 02.08.1914 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF
Series). Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31
December 1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence.

DOUGLAS. John - born 16.12.1906 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF Series).
Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31 December
1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence.

DOUGLAS. Peter Frederic Sholto - born 24.08.1916 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files
(PF Series). Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31
December 1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence.

DOUGLAS. Phoebe Mary - born 28.03.1917 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF
Series). Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31
December 1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence. (See below)

DOUGLAS. Robert Henry- born 07.07.1901 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF
Series). Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31
December 1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence.

DOUGLAS. Roderick Walter Sholto - 16.07.1908 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF
Series). Collection: Records of Special Operations Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31
December 1946. Reference: HS 9/445. Subjects: Intelligence.

DOUGLAS. Gerald Sholto - born 27.1 1.1891 . Special Operations Executive: Personnel Files (PF
Series). Gerald Sholto DOUGLAS - born 27.11.1891. Collection: Records of Special Operations
Executive. Date range: 01 January 1939 - 31 December 1946. Reference: HS 9/444/8. Subjects:
Intelligence.

Help identifying these Special Operations Executive agents, and their exploits, would be welcome.

[William Douglas]

I am seeking confirmation that this Phoebe Mary Douglas may be the Phoebe who was born on 28 March 1917, the daughter of John William Edward James Douglas, 16th of Tilquhillie and Olga Edith de Reuter

[William Douglas]

Gerald Sholto Douglas was son of Hugh Gamany Douglas, of Mountain Lodge, Keady, Ireland.

Gerald Sholto Douglas was born on 27 November 1891. Qualifying as a L.R.C.P. & S.I. and L.M. in 1914, he later became a specialist in Anaesthetics. He was commissioned a Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in May 1915 and Temporary Captain in May 1916 and served in France, 1915-18. Granted the regular army rank of Captain in December 1918, he was promoted to Major in May 1927, and served in Germany, 1919; India, 1920-24 and 1928-33; Jamaica, 1937-42. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, August 1941; Acting Colonel July 1943; Temporary Colonel, January 1944 and Colonel, November 1945, he served as Senior Medical Officer, B.E.F. Dutch West Indies, 1940-42; was specially employed by the Ministry of Information, 1942-43; was A.D.M.S. H.Q. 42 Armoured Division, July-September 1943 and A.D.M.S. H.Q. 55th Infantry Division, 1943-44. Holding the rank of Acting Brigadier in December 1945 and Temporary Brigadier, June 1946-May 1947, he served in India and S.E. Asia during 1944-47, as C.O. of the B.M.H. Delhi and C.M.H. Ahmednagar, 1944; C.O. 127 I.B.G.H. (B.T.) 1944-45; D.D.M.S. H.Q. 15 Corps, 1945-47 and A.D.M.S. H.Q. N. Midland District, 1947-48.

M.I.D. London Gazette 26 June 1947.

He was placed on Retired Pay with the honorary rank of Brigadier on 27 November 1948; ceased to be in the Reserve of Officers in 1951 and died at Innishannon, Co. Cork on 1 November 1965.

[William Douglas]

Major Roderick Walter Sholto Douglas was born on 16 July 1908. He was the son of Hon. Archibald Roderick Sholto Douglas and Winona Constance de Maraisville Peake. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Margaret Cooper, daughter of Stephen Clement Paston Cooper and Florence Gertrude Taylor, on 7 November 1935. He and Elizabeth Margaret Cooper were divorced in 1949. He married, secondly, Margaret Tennent, daughter of J. M. Tennent, on 13 February 1950. He died in 1990.      He gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Armoured Corps.

Roderick and Peter were brothers.

[William Douglas]

James Barrington Douglas, a temporary captain in the 11th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery was gazetted for a Military Cross on 21st December 1944 for service in North West Europe (apparently stationed in Woodford Green). He was entitled to wear the following medals: War Medal 1939-1945, 1939-45 Star and France And Germany Star