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 ...
Born Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Married with two children he died, aged 24 years, and was buried in Plot E.114, Rawmarsh Cemetery, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Killed by the IRA Regent's Park bomb.
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
Anthony Edward Baldwin was born on 18 April 1900, the youngest of the three children of Edward Thomas Baldwin (1847-1937) and Emily Henry Louise Stoker (1866-1936). His birth was registered in the ...
Formed in 1937 by renaming the 24th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Queen's). The Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association website gives an outline of this battalion show...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
