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<blockquote data-quote="John Lee" data-source="post: 63017" data-attributes="member: 39160"><p>I hope that I am not joining this party too late. I recently had a book published "A Grateful Nation Soon Forgot" from which I learned of an heroic RNVR Sub. Lieut. Martin Solomon who distinguished himself on raids throughout the Agean often together with Dane, Anders Lassen VC., MC** under Lord George Jellicoe's command. I am now writing about Martin Solomon and have bought many books that I am working through that mention him but as he was SOE SIS he acted as anonymously as possible. I am also hampered by the fact that WWII service histories are not to be released for 100 years. Not much help to a researcher! Today, 11th October 2023 my copy of Benyon Tinker's Dust Upon the Sea arrived after months of waiting. It is brilliant for connecting LFS numbered caiques to people but is short on details of their raids. The other books I have are: Adrian Seligman "No Stars to Guide" 1947 (very flowery and written like a novel); Adrian Seligman "War in the Islands" 1996 (very informative but like his other books has no index); John Lodwick "Raiders from the Sea 1947 with foreward by Lord Jellicoe; Richard Capell War "Simiomata" a Greek Notebook 1944-1945 (War Correspondent) 1946?; Artemis Cooper "Patrick Leigh Fermor" 20212; Geoffrey Elliott "A Forgotten Man" John Lodwick 2017; JEA Father of Geoffrey Appleyard "The Story of Apple" 1947; Henry Maude "Scobie, Hero of Greece" The British Campaign 1944 - 1945. 1975; Lew Lind "Flowers of Rethymon" Escape from Greece 1991; David Saul "SBS Silent Warriors" 2021; Noel Baker MP "Greece The Whole Story" (only 64 pages) 1946; Julia Jones "Uncommon Courage" The Yachtsmen Volunteers of WWII 2022; Mike Langley "Anders Lassen of the SAS VC, MC ?; Thomas Harder "Special Forces Hero" Anders Lassen VC, MC** (Incredibly well researched and with index and ref to sources) mentions his close relationship with Martin Solomon 2021; Benyon Tinker "Dust upon the Sea" 1947.</p><p></p><p>Does anyone have information about Martin Solomon. He had his own team who had mapped the coast of all of the Agean islands and for this reason joined with Lassen and a force of raiders to sabotage German installations and supplies as well as killing or capturing many. Solomon is reported to have gone to Atlit (Palestine) where the British under their anti-semitic Home Secretary in 1945 refused to release Jewish refugees and assisted in their release. Many were survivors of the Holocaust. Needless to say Martin Solomon was Jewish but also a great British subject. After demob he had a business at Pye of Cambridge but with itchy feet he volunteered for Korea. In January 1956 he married Vida Wasteson Bendix a Spanish Norwegian singer / dancer but three months later was found dead in his bed at the Crillon Hotel in Madrid in suspicious circumstances. He was only 41. He was undoubtedly an MI6 agent and I wonder if this had something to do with his death. As you can see I have a lot of research to do but also lots of leads to work on.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the length of this. Question to IF. I live at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. We had a local dentist named Fozzard. As it is an unusual name I wonder if there is any connection.</p><p></p><p>John Lee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Lee, post: 63017, member: 39160"] I hope that I am not joining this party too late. I recently had a book published "A Grateful Nation Soon Forgot" from which I learned of an heroic RNVR Sub. Lieut. Martin Solomon who distinguished himself on raids throughout the Agean often together with Dane, Anders Lassen VC., MC** under Lord George Jellicoe's command. I am now writing about Martin Solomon and have bought many books that I am working through that mention him but as he was SOE SIS he acted as anonymously as possible. I am also hampered by the fact that WWII service histories are not to be released for 100 years. Not much help to a researcher! Today, 11th October 2023 my copy of Benyon Tinker's Dust Upon the Sea arrived after months of waiting. It is brilliant for connecting LFS numbered caiques to people but is short on details of their raids. The other books I have are: Adrian Seligman "No Stars to Guide" 1947 (very flowery and written like a novel); Adrian Seligman "War in the Islands" 1996 (very informative but like his other books has no index); John Lodwick "Raiders from the Sea 1947 with foreward by Lord Jellicoe; Richard Capell War "Simiomata" a Greek Notebook 1944-1945 (War Correspondent) 1946?; Artemis Cooper "Patrick Leigh Fermor" 20212; Geoffrey Elliott "A Forgotten Man" John Lodwick 2017; JEA Father of Geoffrey Appleyard "The Story of Apple" 1947; Henry Maude "Scobie, Hero of Greece" The British Campaign 1944 - 1945. 1975; Lew Lind "Flowers of Rethymon" Escape from Greece 1991; David Saul "SBS Silent Warriors" 2021; Noel Baker MP "Greece The Whole Story" (only 64 pages) 1946; Julia Jones "Uncommon Courage" The Yachtsmen Volunteers of WWII 2022; Mike Langley "Anders Lassen of the SAS VC, MC ?; Thomas Harder "Special Forces Hero" Anders Lassen VC, MC** (Incredibly well researched and with index and ref to sources) mentions his close relationship with Martin Solomon 2021; Benyon Tinker "Dust upon the Sea" 1947. Does anyone have information about Martin Solomon. He had his own team who had mapped the coast of all of the Agean islands and for this reason joined with Lassen and a force of raiders to sabotage German installations and supplies as well as killing or capturing many. Solomon is reported to have gone to Atlit (Palestine) where the British under their anti-semitic Home Secretary in 1945 refused to release Jewish refugees and assisted in their release. Many were survivors of the Holocaust. Needless to say Martin Solomon was Jewish but also a great British subject. After demob he had a business at Pye of Cambridge but with itchy feet he volunteered for Korea. In January 1956 he married Vida Wasteson Bendix a Spanish Norwegian singer / dancer but three months later was found dead in his bed at the Crillon Hotel in Madrid in suspicious circumstances. He was only 41. He was undoubtedly an MI6 agent and I wonder if this had something to do with his death. As you can see I have a lot of research to do but also lots of leads to work on. Sorry for the length of this. Question to IF. I live at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. We had a local dentist named Fozzard. As it is an unusual name I wonder if there is any connection. John Lee [/QUOTE]
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