DIPLOMAT’S DEATH
FORMER SECRET AGENT TROOPS SAVED ON CRETE (10 a.m.) LONDON, May 26. The death of Commander Francis Grant Pool, British Consul in Crete, and one of Britain’s most successful war-time secret agents, is announced from liis home at Monkseaton. During the German occupation of Crete. Commander Pool landed from a submarine disguised as a peasant selling oranges. He made contact with 800 British. New Zealand and Australian troops sheltering in the island caves and. with the help of the abbot of the monastery, got them away. lie was later awarded the D.S.Q.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19470527.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
94DIPLOMAT’S DEATH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in