The Secret WW2 Learning Network is an educational charity registered in the UK - a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) No. 1156796

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AJEX parade, Whitehall and Cenotaph
AJEX parade, Whitehall and Cenotaph

benefit from a mutually rewarding relationship with AJEX and in particular with their archivist, Martin Sugarman. Dan

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SECRET WW2 annual conference
SECRET WW2 annual conference

– EARLY YEARS, a short introduction, outlining Andrée’s childhood and hobbies, presented by Paul...

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Armistice Day French ceremony
Armistice Day French ceremony

service afterwards, at the Memorial to the Missing...

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Events

How to learn of our upcoming events
How to learn of our upcoming events
  • October 15, 2025
  • 00:00
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 2 VALENÇAY
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 2 VALENÇAY
  • May 6, 2024
  • 11:00
  • F Section Memorial, Carr Bénévent,
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 1 ROMORANTIN-LANTHENAY
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 1 ROMORANTIN-LANTHENAY
  • May 5, 2024
  • 16:00
  • Quai de l'Île Marin, Romorantin-Lanthenay
CRANLEIGH AND THE SECRET WAR – EXHIBITION TO 4TH MAY 2024
CRANLEIGH AND THE SECRET WAR – EXHIBITION TO 4TH MAY 2024
  • April 23, 2024
  • 10:00
  • Cranleigh Arts, Surrey

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“Ramsay was angered that although women had been widely deployed with immense success as agents in the second world war, during the second half of the last century their roles were often downgraded, consigning many of the clerical “Miss Moneypennys” to becoming the forgotten women of British intelligence …”
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That is a serious amount of medals and honours he has on his chest.
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Paul McCue is executive trustee of the Secret WW2 Learning Network. He explained that the history of Newmarket during the war became widely known when the National Archives released several files in the 1990s that related to its WW2 role. "These were secret operations during the war and that secrecy persisted," he said. "That's part of the aim of our charitable organisation to bring those secrets out into the open and to make them better known, particularly the agents as well as the air crew who delivered them.
Secret history of RAF Newmarket marked at Rowley Mile event Secret history of RAF Newmarket marked at Rowley Mile event
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Title image – B24 ‘Carpetbagger’ conducting parachute drop. Courtesy of Clive Bassett, Harrington Aviation Museum –  https://harringtonmuseum.org.uk/