NEWSLETTER of the WEST END LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY REMEMBRANCE WESTENDERWESTENDER 1914 - 2014 SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2014 ( PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1999 ) VOLUME 9 NUMBER 7 CHAIRMAN MEN WHO MARCHED AWAY (5) Neville Dickinson VICE-CHAIRMAN Bill White SECRETARY Lin Dowdell MINUTES SECRETARY Vera Dickinson TREASURER & WEBMASTER Peter Wallace MUSEUM CURATOR Nigel Wood PUBLICITY Ray Upson MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Delphine Kinley RESEARCHER Pauline Berry WELHS... preserving our past for your future…. VISIT OUR WEBSITE! No. 10252 Private George H. Harding, ‘A’ Company, 10th Battalion Hampshire Regiment. Enlisted at Southampton, the son of William and Harriett Website: Harding of Moorhill, West End. George died of wounds and was buried at sea www.westendlhs.co.uk on Friday 13th August 1915, aged 27 years old and is remembered on the Helles Memorial on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. E-mail address:
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[email protected] WESTENDER - PAGE 2 - VOL 9 NO 7 THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM WEST END By Pauline Berry AN ELDERLY MELITA Further information was recently revealed by the MELITA, GERTRUDE & GERTY in the late 1920’s British Press regarding the contents of the KGB files, the profiles of 200 KGB ‘collaborators’ or spies, which were brought to this country in 1992 by a Russian defector (Major Vasili Mitrokhin). Found in this archive was the name Melita Norwood, codenamed HOLA (also Tina), who was described in one file as “a loyal, trustworthy and disciplined agent” , who was recruited in 1937 on an ‘ideological basis’ following the recommendation by the British Communist Party.