Alan Malcher
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Military Historian www.alanmalcher.com
Sophie and Hans Scholl: The White Rose Group resisting Hitler – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/11/29/s...
Sophie and Hans Scholl: The White Rose Group resisting Hitler
Sophie Scholl White Rose was a non-violent intellectual resistance group based at the University of Munich. One of its founding members was Hans Scholl and the group was quickly joined by his siste…
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February 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Sophie and Hans Scholl: The White Rose Group resisting Hitler – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/11/29/s...
Andrée Peel (nee Virot) Heroine of the French Resistance – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/08/18/a...
Andrée Peel (nee Virot) Heroine of the French Resistance
In March 2010 Andrée Peel died of pneumonia at a British nursing home at the age of 105 and was buried at All Saints Church in Long Ashton near Bristol. A casual observer seeing the honour guard f…
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February 12, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Andrée Peel (nee Virot) Heroine of the French Resistance – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/08/18/a...
Opertation Banner (Northern Ireland) News clips from the 1970’s. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2026/02/10/o...
Opertation Banner (Northern Ireland) News clips from the 1970’s.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Opertation Banner (Northern Ireland) News clips from the 1970’s. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2026/02/10/o...
Corporal Paul Edward Harman Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/12/14/c...
Corporal Paul Edward Harman Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)
Corporal Paul Edward Harman was killed during operation Banner (Northern Ireland) on 14 December 1977. Paul was alone whilst driving an unmarked civilian vehicle along the Monagh Road in the Turf L…
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February 8, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Corporal Paul Edward Harman Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/12/14/c...
Undercover Soldiers in Nortthern Ireland during Operation Banner. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2026/02/06/u...
Undercover Soldiers in Nortthern Ireland during Operation Banner.
(Text and photograph from Facebook account: British & Commonwealth Forces Past, Present and Future – I have no connection with this account.) Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) 1969- 200…
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February 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Undercover Soldiers in Nortthern Ireland during Operation Banner. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2026/02/06/u...
British Army in Northern Ireland 1969 to 2007 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/07/16/b...
British Army in Northern Ireland 1969 to 2007
EDITORIAL NOTE – I agree with a recent comment pointing out the title is misleading and it should be noted all branches of the military played an essential role in this operation, not just th…
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February 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
British Army in Northern Ireland 1969 to 2007 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/07/16/b...
Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2026/02/05/o...
Operation Banner (Northern Ireland)
This news clip is dated 1972 but there is no source.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2026/02/05/o...
Filip Johansen: SOE Denmark Section (Code name Artichoke) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/10/17/f...
Filip Johansen: SOE Denmark Section (Code name Artichoke)
On the morning of 9 April 1940 Germany attacked Denmark and after sporadic fighting during which cities and towns were bombed by the Luftwaffe the Danish government decided the German military w…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Filip Johansen: SOE Denmark Section (Code name Artichoke) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/10/17/f...
Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/j...
Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section
(Image source Unknown) In early 1943 Baalsrud was part of Operation Martin consisting of three other Norwegian agents who were taken to Norway by a clandestine fishing boat with a Norwegian crew of…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/j...
Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/j...
Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section
(Image source Unknown) In early 1943 Baalsrud was part of Operation Martin consisting of three other Norwegian agents who were taken to Norway by a clandestine fishing boat with a Norwegian crew of…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Jan Baalsrud MBE (1917-1988) SOE Norwegian Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/j...
Special Operations Executive (SOE) Norwegian Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/02/16/s...
Special Operations Executive (SOE) Norwegian Section
Three-part television documentary describing a series of actions taken by SOE Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water which …
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January 19, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Special Operations Executive (SOE) Norwegian Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/02/16/s...
The ‘Shetland Bus’. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/11/29/t...
The ‘Shetland Bus’.
Members of the ‘Shetland Bus’ during WW2.The nickname of a Norwegian clandestine special operations group that linked the Shetland’s in Scotland to German-occupied Norway from 194…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The ‘Shetland Bus’. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/11/29/t...
Another lesser known British Campaign during the Cold War Period: Aden 1963-1967 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/11/30/a...
Another lesser known British Campaign during the Cold War Period: Aden 1963-1967
The Aden Emergency was against communist insurgents, the National Liberation Front For the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) and the National Liberation Front who were supported by the Sov…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Another lesser known British Campaign during the Cold War Period: Aden 1963-1967 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/11/30/a...
The Battle of Mirbat, Oman, 19 July 1972: 22nd Special Air Service Regiment. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/14/t...
The Battle of Mirbat, Oman, 19 July 1972: 22nd Special Air Service Regiment.
Talaiasai Labalaba (known as Laba) who some soldiers said should have been awarded the VC. Memorial to Laba of B Squadron 22 SAS who was KIA during the battle. Laba was born in Nawaka, Fiji on 13 J…
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January 19, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The Battle of Mirbat, Oman, 19 July 1972: 22nd Special Air Service Regiment. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/14/t...
Corporal Paul Edward Harman Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/12/14/c...
Corporal Paul Edward Harman Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)
Corporal Paul Edward Harman was killed during operation Banner (Northern Ireland) on 14 December 1977. Paul was alone whilst driving an unmarked civilian vehicle along the Monagh Road in the Turf L…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Corporal Paul Edward Harman Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/12/14/c...
Captain Robert Nairac, GC (Northern Ireland) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/08/15/c...
Captain Robert Nairac, GC (Northern Ireland)
Robert Nairac was born in British Mauritius in 1948, not in Ireland as some journalists have stated, and his only connection with Ireland before joining the army was during his time as a post…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Captain Robert Nairac, GC (Northern Ireland) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/08/15/c...
Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA: Agents of Influence, by Aaron Edwards ( Published March 2021) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/09/21/b...
Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA: Agents of Influence, by Aaron Edwards ( Published March 2021)
Dr Aaron Edwards who I have known for several years is well known for his ground-breaking research on the intelligence war in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) and his last publication UVF Behind…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA: Agents of Influence, by Aaron Edwards ( Published March 2021) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/09/21/b...
Alexander Vass: SOE Hungarian Section wireless operator – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/12/20/a...
Alexander Vass: SOE Hungarian Section wireless operator
Alexander Vass was born in Limburg, Germany, he spoke fluent Hungarian and was a child when his family moved to Canada and became naturalised Canadians. In early 1943 Vass enlisted into the R…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Alexander Vass: SOE Hungarian Section wireless operator – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/12/20/a...
SS Panzer Division Das Reich and Der Fûhrer: War Crimes in France after the Normandy Landings – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/02/06/s...
SS Panzer Division Das Reich and Der Fûhrer: War Crimes in France after the Normandy Landings
As with most countries under German occupation during the Second World War there were many war crimes against civilians and in the case of France, two of the best documented are the massacre of civ…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
SS Panzer Division Das Reich and Der Fûhrer: War Crimes in France after the Normandy Landings – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/02/06/s...
The Mazabotto Massacre, Italy 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/06/t...
The Mazabotto Massacre, Italy 1944
5th October marks the anniversary of the Mazabotto Massacre (29 September to 5 October 1944) also called the massacre of Monte Sole, Italy. Italian Partisans (Resistance fighters) After German troo…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The Mazabotto Massacre, Italy 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/06/t...
Robert Byerly the widely unknown American who served with Britain’s SOE – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/08/20/r...
Robert Byerly the widely unknown American who served with Britain’s SOE
The American Virginia Hall and her wartime service with SOE is well known but Robert Byerly is less well documented and is sometimes wrongly described as a Canadian. When Germany invaded France in …
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January 4, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Robert Byerly the widely unknown American who served with Britain’s SOE – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/08/20/r...
Marcel Pinte the six-year old who worked for the French Resistance – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/04/m...
Marcel Pinte the six-year old who worked for the French Resistance
(Musee Resistance) French Resistance. Six-year old Marcel Pinte worked for the resistance carrying secret messages to various parts of the resistance network and his father, Eugéne Pinte (aka La Ga…
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January 4, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Marcel Pinte the six-year old who worked for the French Resistance – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/04/m...
SOE: The French Grand Prix Drivers – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/07/11/s...
SOE: The French Grand Prix Drivers
William Grover-Williams was born in Montrough Hauts-de-Seine, France on 16 January 1903 to an English father and French mother and spoke fluent French and English. By the age of 29 he was a well-kn…
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December 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
SOE: The French Grand Prix Drivers – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/07/11/s...
Robert Benoist, SOE (Special Operations Executive) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/30/r...
Robert Benoist, SOE (Special Operations Executive)
Robert Benoist was a French Grand Prix racing driver who escaped to England when France was occupied in 1940. Whilst in England he successfully passed selection and training for the Special …
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December 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Robert Benoist, SOE (Special Operations Executive) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/30/r...
Marcel Pinte the six-year old who worked for the French Resistance – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/04/m...
Marcel Pinte the six-year old who worked for the French Resistance
(Musee Resistance) French Resistance. Six-year old Marcel Pinte worked for the resistance carrying secret messages to various parts of the resistance network and his father, Eugéne Pinte (aka La Ga…
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December 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Marcel Pinte the six-year old who worked for the French Resistance – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/04/m...