SOE Langlais, Jack

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Langlais ​

• FORENAME

Jack ​

• UNIT

SOE (HMS Fidelity) ​

• RANK

Commander ​

• NUMBER

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• DATE OF DEATH

1st January 1943 ​

• AGE

34 ​

• GRAVESITE

Portsmouth Naval Memorial,Hampshire Panel 72 Column 3 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

true name Peri,Claude Andre Michel​

parent unit Royal Navy​

born 7.4.1908 Hanoi,Indochina​

son of Francois-Michel and Jeanne Costabel Peri (father died 1938)​

French Navy 1925-28​

insurance agent,Saigon erly 1930s​

married Raymonde Fouche 13.8.1935​

French Deuxieme Bureau 1937​

married Marguerite Paire 28.2.1938 (looks after his son Andre,born to other woman)​

Service de Renseignements Imperial December 1939​

SS Le Rhin April 1940​

Commander of Free French base,Gibraltar​

SS Le Rhin July 1940​

arrives Barry,Wales August 1940​

SS Le Rhin renamed HMS Fidelity​

SOE Autumn 1940​

Section D SIS 1941​

SOE 1941​

lost in sinking of HMS Fidelity off Azores​

biography "Claude and Madeleine:a True Story of War,Espionage and Passion" (Edward Marriott) 2005 ​

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