Month: March 2014

Inspector Horace Jaikens – Huntingdonshire Constabulary

AcknowledgementMany thanks to Martyn Smith, grandson of Horace Jaikens, for kindly sharing information and photographs about his grandfather. On 1 February, 1941, Josef Jakobs, erstwhile German spy, was found by a couple of farm workers in a potato field southwest of the town of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. The farmers found Harry Godfrey, a member of the […]

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Book Review – A History of Modern Espionage by Colonel Allison Ind (1965)

The Book A History of Modern Espionage: the growth and operation of Secret Service in all parts of the world, Allison Ind, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1965. Review One of the first books to mention Josef Jakobs was published in 1965 by Colonel Allison Ind, a US Air Intelligence Officer who had been station in

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Court Martial of Josef Jakobs held at Duke of York’s Headquarters, Chelsea

On the morning of 4 August, 1941, Josef Jakobs was driven from Wandsworth Prison to the Duke of York’s Headquarters. His court martial convened at 10:30 am and concluded at 1 pm the following day. The Duke of York’s Headquarters is a building located on King’s Road in the Chelsea area of London, just southwest

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Equipped to Jump into the Unknown – Parachute Equipment of a German spy

On the evening of 31 January, 1941, at 7 pm (British Time), Josef Jakobs departed Schipol Aerodrome in Amsterdam in a two-engined German aircraft. The three-man air crew flew the plane toward England and at 8 pm, over fields of Huntingdonshire Jakobs jumped from the air craft at an elevation of 3000 feet. Jakobs had

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