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On the night of 5/6 June 1944, D-Day, a Lockheed Hudson dropped a small group of parachutists into the mountainous Morvan area of central France. Their mission was to operate as an advance reconnaissance party 400 miles behind the German lines and to make contact with the French Resistance. One of the team, later to become its commander, was Ian Wellsted, known by his nom-de-guerrre of Gremlin. During the next three months No.1 Troop of the 1st Special Air Service Regiment relayed vital information about enemy troop locations and movements, sabotaged bridges and supply lines, skirmished with German columns and harried the occupying forces as they retreated eastwards in the face of the Allied invasion. Camped deep in the woods of the Montsaughe region, the small force worked alongside the local groups of Maquis, forging strong links of mutual respect and friendship. Ian Wellsted s exciting first-hand account of his operations behind enemy lines is a tale of gallantry and daring, of comradeship and cooperation, full of humour and perceptive insight revealing one of the most significant chapters in the history of the SAS.

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Acknowledgements
The author wishes to acknowledge the support and encouragement received from the SAS Regimental Association, the Very Reverend Dr Fraser McLuskey, MC, Dr Alex Muirhead, Tony Trower, Eric Adamson and many other old friends, which emboldened him to submit for publication these recollections of a raw young officer on his first campaign.
In particular, he wishes to acknowledge the contribution of his daughter, Gail Gardiner, who compiled the index, and of his brother, Raife, who so painstakingly prepared the sketch maps, which illustrate the range and scope of SAS operations in the Morvan.
SAS: With the Maquis
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A Greenhill Book
First published in 1994 by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited
www.greenhillbooks.com
This edition published in 2016 by
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Frontline Books
an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd,
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Copyright Ian Wellsted, 1994, 1997, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84832-898-3
PDF ISBN: 978-1-84832-901-0
EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84832-899-0
PRC ISBN: 978-1-84832-900-3
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without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who
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to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
CIP data records for this title are available from the British Library
Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
Contents
Illustrations
Photographs taken whilst in France with the Maquis were of course taken under poor and unusual conditions, with simple cameras. In fact they should not have been taken at all, and we are fortunate that a small number have survived and a selection are presented in this volume. Necessarily the images reflect the circumstances of photography nearly fifty years ago, but they do convey something of the atmosphere of the time.
Glossary
Arctic tent
Small, easily portable tent
Compo rations
Tinned rations providing balanced meals
Cordtex
Detonating cord for linking explosive charges
Denison smock
Thigh-length camouflaged water-resistant smock
DZ
Dropping Zone where men or supplies are dropped by parachute
Eureka beacon
Man-pack radar beacon for use on DZs
FANY
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry womens auxiliary, providing drivers for Army ambulances and other vehicles
FFI
Force Franaise dInterieur military organisation directing the Resistance movement within France
FM
Fusil-mitrailleur French light machine gun
Gammon bomb
Plastic bomb for use against tanks
Gasogene
Gas produced through imperfect combustion in a metal cylinder, used as fuel in some maquis vehicles
Jock column
Small mobile raiding parties, including artillery, used by the British in North Africa
Lewis bomb
Small charge of plastic explosive mixed with thermite for destroying parked aircraft
Milice
French fascist para-military police
Parachutage
Arrival of men or supplies by parachute
PC
Poste de Commandement Military Command Post
Pressel switch
Means of initiating a detonation by pressure
Shleuh
Maquis slang for Germans
SOE
Special Operations Executive British agency involved in locating, encouraging and supplying guerrilla organisations
S-phone
Man-pack wireless for short-range ground-to-air communication
Time pencil
Pencil-shaped fuse initiating a detonation at a predetermined time after the breaking of a seal
Todt worker
Member of a German civilian labour organisation
War Box
Army slang for the War Office
Maps
(All Scales are approximate)
Conventional Signs
Sketch maps drawn by Raife Wellsted and John Richards 1 OVERVIEW MAP - WEST - photo 3
Sketch maps drawn by Raife Wellsted and John Richards
1. OVERVIEW MAP -WEST
2 OVERVIEW MAP - EAST 3 FROM 7 JUNE TO 28 JUNE 1944 4 SKETCH OF - photo 4
2. OVERVIEW MAP -EAST
3 FROM 7 JUNE TO 28 JUNE 1944 4 SKETCH OF DUN LES PLACES - NOT TO - photo 5
3. FROM 7 JUNE TO 28 JUNE 1944
4 SKETCH OF DUN LES PLACES - NOT TO SCALE - 28 JUNE 1944 5 VICINITY OF - photo 6
4. SKETCH OF DUN LES PLACES - (NOT TO SCALE) - 28 JUNE 1944
5 VICINITY OF MAQUIS BERNARD - 28 JUNE TO 27 AUGUST 1944 6 ACTIONS - photo 7
5. VICINITY OF MAQUIS BERNARD - 28 JUNE TO 27 AUGUST 1944
6 ACTIONS FURTHER NORTH - 28 JUNE TO 6 AUGUST 1944 7 OPERATIONS TO ST YAN - photo 8
6. ACTIONS FURTHER NORTH - 28 JUNE TO 6 AUGUST 1944
7 OPERATIONS TO ST YAN - 9 TO 18 JULY 1944 8 OPERATION TO ST YAN 9 - photo 9
7. OPERATIONS TO ST YAN - 9 TO 18 JULY 1944
8 OPERATION TO ST YAN 9 SORTIES FURTHER EAST - 29 JUNE TO 29 AUGUST 1944 - photo 10
8. OPERATION TO ST YAN
9 SORTIES FURTHER EAST - 29 JUNE TO 29 AUGUST 1944 10 SORTIE INTO - photo 11
9. SORTIES FURTHER EAST - 29 JUNE TO 29 AUGUST 1944
10 SORTIE INTO BURGUNDY - 29 AUGUST TO 3 SEPTEMBER 1944 11 JOURNEY HOME - photo 12
10. SORTIE INTO BURGUNDY - 29 AUGUST TO 3 SEPTEMBER 1944
11 JOURNEY HOME FROM FRASERS CAMP - 6 SEPTEMBER 1944 Preface When the - photo 13
11. JOURNEY HOME FROM FRASERS CAMP - 6 SEPTEMBER 1944
Preface When the Allied armies launched their invasion in the summer of 1944 - photo 14
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