See Operation Mincemeat for Major Martin's role in WW2. The body was identified in 1996 as that of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man, but the Wikipedia page puts forward a number of other possibilities.
Wikipedia has this grim photo captioned "Corpse of 'William Martin', prepared for release into the water".
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Major William Martin
The Biblical quotation draws attention to the secrecy which was essential to ...
George James Ewer was born in 1913 the son of Frederick George Ewer (1881-1964) and Elizabeth Kate Ewer née Howard (1881-1967). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1913 in the Willesden ...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
R. Navy. Fought but did not die in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: George Thomas Challice was born on 9 May 1897 in Ballingdon, Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the eldest of the seve...
We've put the two leagues together: League of the Royal Free Hospital Nurses & Hampstead General Hospital Nurses League, since, when the NHS merged the two hospital together, presumably the Nur...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area of one and a half miles by a half mile - 87 churches - 13,200 houses - only 6 people are recorded as having died (but ...
Manservant brought to London from Ottoman Smyrna by his employer, Daniel Edwards, a dealer in coffee and other goods from the east. Rosée is variously described as being Armenian or from Sicily. Ro...
Musicians. The backing group of Buddy Holly. Originally, the group comprised Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe Mauldin on bass, but Sullivan dropped out after a year o...
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