Three SOE agents specially trained to work behind enemy lines and among the first to be sent to France were killed in the bombing of
Tag: Chelsea Blitz
The only Luftwaffe pilot to bale out over Chelsea during WW2
His life was saved by a Chelsea artist who disarmed an outraged bombing victim who had grabbed the pilot’s pistol and was threatening to shoot
How celebrated ‘spymistress’ Vera Atkins helped protect Chelsea during the Blitz
Vera Atkins is one of the most famous woman intelligence officers of the Second World War because she was responsible for running women Special Operations
The Paultons Square trench shelter tragedy- October 20th 1940
Trench shelters were a rapid and quick build solution for the construction of public air raid refuges in London during the Second World War. They
Church of the Holy Redeemer and Upper Cheyne Row disaster- 14th September 1940.
It was Saturday 14th September 1940 and the eighty or so Chelsea people packed into the crypt of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy