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3 unusual facts about Nicholas Bodington


Nicholas Bodington

SFHQ sent him back to France under the codename Jean in July 1944 to reactivate the PROFESSOR network in the Marne as the PEDLAR network, and to assist the French Resistance.

Oddly, it was Déricourt who welcomed them when they landed, in the field Achille 1 km to the southeast of Soucelles.

The son of Oliver Bodington, he studied at Cheltenham College and (for a year) at Lincoln College, Oxford and became a journalist, working from 1930 onwards for the Daily Express.



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