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4 unusual facts about Glyndwr Michael


Glyndwr Michael

A plaque commemorating Glyndwr Michael is now also on the war memorial in Aberbargoed.

On 30 April, Lt. Jewell, captain of the submarine Seraph, read the 39th Psalm and Michael's body was gently pushed into the sea where the tide would bring it ashore off Huelva on the Spanish Atlantic coast.

Michael was born in Aberbargoed in Wales and had had part-time jobs as a gardener and labourer.

Norman Jewell

As part of the ruse, the corpse of a vagrant named Glyndwr Michael was dressed as a Royal Marines officer and briefcase, stuffed with dummy secret papers, chained to its wrist.



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