Talk:Colin Gubbins

There is no such rank as '1st Lieutenant' in the British Army. There is '2nd Lieutenant' which is followed by 'Lieutenant'. This rank only exists in the Royal Navy and foreign armies e.g. American. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.108.104 (talk) 11:55, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Mission to Poland
What was the nature of the missions to Poland in 1938 and early 1939? --41.150.103.130 (talk) 12:13, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

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Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson call Gubbins "one of the war's unsung heroes".
What baloney! Read Lynne Olson's Last Hope Island and you will see that Gubbins screwed up by not listening to his chief code expert, Leo Marks. More than 50 SOE agents were captured and later killed as a result of Gubbins's failure to heed the warnings of Marks. Iss246 (talk) 22:08, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Lead
The lead of this article describes Gubbins as the 'prime mover' of SOE; I can't help but think that this isn't a very encyclopaedic way of describing his role. I can't ascertain if this description was officially used because the link attached to the citation is broken. Could/should the wording be changed? Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 23:00, 3 July 2021 (UTC)