Plaque

Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile Military Intelligence Service

Erection date: 28/10/2011

Inscription

{Beneath the Czechoslovak coat of arms:}
1940 - 1945. This building housed the Czechoslovak government-in-exile military intelligence service. Operation Anthropoid was planned here in October 1941, which led to the assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague on 27 May 1942.
Embassies of the Czech and the Slovak Republics
Free Czechoslovak Air Force Association
Jan Kaplan archive
City of Westminster 

Unveiled on Czech National Day.

Site: Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile Military Intelligence Service (1 memorial)

W2, Bayswater Road, 3 - 8 Porchester Gate

The Czech base was on the sixth floor of this residential block.

December 2016, The Prague Daily Monitor suggests a lost plaque: “The Czech national oppression and resistance memorial centre opened … near Prague … The exhibition also shows the original memorial plaque from London's Porchester Gate where the assassination of high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was planned…”  But we think this was probably one of those brass name plates that you get at the entrances to large buildings such as block of flats.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Operation Anthropoid

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Czechoslovak Government in Exile

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Reinhard Heydrich

Nazi official. Born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich in Halle an der Saale. An...

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Embassy of the Czech Republic

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