Colin Gubbins

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Major General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins (1896-1976) was the prime mover of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in the Second World War. He was also responsible for setting up the secret Auxiliary Units. Colin McVean Gubbins was educated at Cheltenham College.

His father, John Harington Gubbins (1852-1929), served with distinction as a scholar-diplomat in Japan for 30 years.

[edit] See also

• Edmund Charaszkiewicz
• Jan Kowalewski.

[edit] Bibliography

• Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley, Gubbins and SOE, London, Leo Cooper, 1993, ISBN 0-85052-556-X.