The early days of the War Department Film Club

This is one of our favourite photographs of some of our members,

talk about nights at the movies this was one the best I have ever had.

Left to right The boyo from the museum. Mr wine gums Peter Forbes,

Sadly Ted Ross who we lost this year during Covid19 and an amazing artist Alan O’Neill.

That night was a full house as we all sat down to the war film

“The Man Who Never Was” about “Operation Mincemeat”

We covered it this week in the video tribute to Ted we posted on our page earlier as part of our Act of Remembrance.

Ted played a key role in the deception plan and its success by sending the messages ref the May Day call to what was believed to be the downed aircraft and we now know was a submarine carrying the body of Major William Martin.

After Peter had presented Ted with the morse code key painted by Alan we all watched in awe as Ted tapped out the very message he sent from Gibraltar which helped “Operation Husky” to be the success it was.

He was a gentleman in every sense of the word and he is sadly missed by all that knew him.

We will in the future be dedicating a part of the museum to his memory and telling his story.

If you would like to learn more, see the earlier post titled Remembering Ted Ross.

Again we replayed the movie as a tribute to an absent friend see you in Valhalla Sir.