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    Operation XX And Me: Did I Have A Choice?
    Operation XX And Me: Did I Have A Choice?
    Operation XX And Me: Did I Have A Choice?
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    Operation XX And Me: Did I Have A Choice?

    By Glyndwr Phillips

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    Approached by the Intelligence Force to help in the release of VIPs held by the Germans in is last year at school and the last year of World War II, Glyndwr afterwards returns to real life, looking for a job he likes and can do. Years later he is drawn back to help the Force and they offer an expected incentive. This becomes a pattern for his life. This story, written in the late 1970s, remained undiscovered until three years after the authors death in 2014. Much of it was familiar but the sections involving Operation XX were completely unknown. At first it was thought the title referred to the group of boys trained for the first operation but internet searches brought to light the double meaning of XX: 20 (in Roman numerals) and double-cross. Operation XX was set up in 1941 to use captured German spies to feed back misinformation to Germany. It eventually came under MI5. Glyndwr always questioned what choice, if any, he had in the events and the way life took him. For his family the discovery of the story raised many questions that may never be answered.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrown Dog Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781839520150
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      Operation XX And Me - Glyndwr Phillips

      Me

      OPERATION XX and me

      The Headmaster wants to see you strikes fear at any time, but where this would lead I had no idea.

      I attended Green Park College in Bath and our swimming lessons were held in the Roman Baths. It was Tuesday morning and as I was walking back to school after the swim I was told to report to the Headmaster. I thought it was someone having a joke, so after break I went to my next lesson, where the teacher asked, Have you been to the Headmaster’s room? No Miss, I replied, thinking what would he want with me?

      You’d better go now, I was told.

      I tapped on his door, hoping he was not there.

      Come in. There you are. I want you to meet the Captain here. He would like to talk to you, said the Head.

      I am looking for young men with certain talents, real skill with horses and a photographic memory; your Headmaster tells me you have these, the Captain says.

      An hour later, to my astonishment, he seems to know more about my past than me. To listen to him I came from another world. Then I realised he was talking about talents and not spelling and writing.

      I still did not know why he picked on me.

      I see you are puzzled. It is because of an essay you wrote, he told me and then said, I am arranging for you to have extra lessons at a gym two afternoons a week. He told me where it was and added that he would meet me there at two o’clock the next day.

      The gym was about a mile from the school. A lot of private schools used it but you had to pay extra on the fees. The Captain met me outside right on two o’clock. We went in and I was introduced to a retired Naval Commander who ran it. Then I was introduced to two other lads, one from Bristol and one from Exmouth; they seemed a lot older than me.

      You are here to learn the art of self-defence, we were told, and that we should put ourselves in the hands of the Commander. It had been arranged that we should attend the gym on two afternoons a week.

      The Captain then left, saying he would see me in two weeks, back at school.

      After we finished at the gym, I thought I would catch an early bus home.

      Sometimes, going home to Box, my two friends and I would get off a few stops early and walk the stream, but today by myself I had time to go to the stables before doing my bread round.

      At this time I had two jobs. One was exercising the horses, the other was the bread round. This meant riding a bicycle with one big and one small basket full of bread. I had about twelve customers. It was a good five miles journey round for six days a week and I was paid six shillings and sixpence. When I went to school in the village I did the round in the morning but when I went to college in Bath, I had to do it after school, when I got home.

      I arrived at the stables the same time as Mr Peter. He had been out with six riders, two on leading reins. I helped him water the horses and rub them down.

      What was I doing home? he asked me. I told him a little and then he said, That must be the same person that’s been asking about you and your riding.

      That night I thought a little about the day, but was soon asleep. When I woke in the morning I remembered we were asked, about six weeks ago, to write what we would like to do when we left school. Well, I wrote things like being a top-class rider, able to speak three different languages and bringing back news from the war: was that the essay the Captain mentioned, I wondered.

      School at Pengam 1935-6

      I was born in Gelligaer near Bargoed and Mountain Ash in Mid Glamorgan and went to school at Pengam. I had four brothers and three sisters all older than me.

      In the cottage garden at Middle Hill with my older brothers and dad in the back

      The only work in South Wales was mining so very soon my brothers began to leave and find work in England. Three of them went to

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