1 Private letters of Jack/Margaret Alcock
2 ORB - No. 161 Squadron - page 388 - PRO Reference AIR 27/1068
3 web-site rafweb.org/Sqn 161-165.htm shows that the Squadron code for the Lysander flight of 161 Squadron changed from MA to JR in April 1944. The ORB for 161 Squadron records that F/O Alcock was flying Lysander D for Organist, the same aircraft that he used for Pirogue in August. The aircraft used for Pirogue was clearly Lysander D (see Air Movement Card for V9748).
4 Susan Ottaway - Violette Szabo : The Life That 1 Have - Page 92 - Naval lnstitute Press Annapolis, Maryland.
5 ORB - No. 161 Squadron - PRO Reference AIR 27/1068.
6 PRO Reference AIR 20/8460 Neither M. Foot nor H. Verity mention who the third passenger was that returned from France on this operation but Verity does acknowledge that there was indeed a third person page 207.
7 PRO Reference AIR 40/2588 - 27/4/44.
8 ORB - No. 161 Squadron - entry for 30`hApril/1 stMay 1944 - Operation Organist - PRO Reference AIR 27/1068.
9 Susan Ottaway - Violette Szabo: 7he Life That l Have - Page 91 - Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland
10 Hugh Verity - We Landed by Moonlight - Page 166 - Crecy Publishing Limited. The ORB for No. 161 Squadron states that F/L Large brought back 5 packages only but Air 20/8460 states that he brought back 1 agent and 5 packages.
11 Hugh Verity - We Landed by Moonlight --- Page 207 - Crecy Publishing Limited.
12 ORB - No. 161 Squadron - page 420 - PRO Reference AIR 28/820.
13 Susan Ottaway - Violette Szabo: The Life That l Have - Page 100 - Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland.
14 Susan Ottaway - Violette Szabo: The Life That / Have - Page 106 - Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland.
15 M.R.D. Foot - SOE in France - Page 378 - Whitehall History Publishing '6 PRO Reference AIR 27/1068 Appendix "A".
18 Hugh Verity - We Landed by Moonlight - Page 176 - Crecy Publishing Limited.
19 Hugh verity - We Landed by Moonlight - Page 172 - Crecy Publishing Limited.
Air Movement Card for Lysander V9490.
20 Freddie Clark - Agents by Moonlight - Tempus Publishing Limited and ORB - 161 Squadron - page 532, PRO reference 27/1068.
21 ORB - No. 161 Squadron - page 532 - PRO Reference AIR 27/1068.
22 Hugh Verity - We Landed by Moonlight - Page 208, Crecy Publishing Limited.
23 No. 410 Squadron Combat Report - PRO reference AIR 50/141.
24 Obituary in Banbury Guardian Newspaper 1945.
25 Letter from Leon Rose, Rector of Messac, to Margaret Alcock 1945.
26 Email from Peter Arkell to Tom O'Rafferty 9th October 2002.
27 Letter from Jackie Hillas 13th June 2004.
28 Copy of Birth Certificate BXCA 559144 - 15th September 2004.
29 Copy of Marriage Certificate MXB 7483383 - 14th September 2004.
30 Copy of Birth Certificate BXCA 576536 - 27th September 2004.
31 Copy of Birth Certificate BXCA 574435 - 24th September 2004.
32 Copy of Death Certificate DYA 438266 - 23rd September 2004;
33 Private letters of Jack/Margaret Alcock.
34 Felix Guicher created the Ecarlate network - Internet article "Networks of the Escape from Free France in Indre of 1941-1944" - http://wwwphp.ac-orleans-tours.fr/crdp/cddp36//article.php3?id_article=129
35 The aircraft used for this op.was the saine aircraft,V9490, that was used to bring Szabo home on 30 April 1944. Capt Per Hysing-Dahl,delayed on take-off, saw no lights at the target field and started his return to England. On the way home flew over the Normandy Beachhead and was shot down. They ditched in the Channel which resulted in the death of two of the three agents on board.
36 Conservative member for Brandon then Brandon-Souris. - Minister of the Crown Historical list -
Manitoba. - www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people