This specially produced bookplate features an original pencil portrait drawing of Maurice Buckmaster by Steve Teasdale. A genuine Buckmaster signature has been professionally mounted underneath the portrait. The bookplate, created on sepia recycled card with white highlights, will fit most books on the Special Operations Executive in WW2. 
In September 1941, succeeding the civilian Henry R. Marriott (a director of Courtaulds French Division), Major Buckmaster assumed command of F Section, supported by Nicholas Bodington, working from an apartment in Orchard Court near Oxford Street. His task was to build an organization which could carry out sabotage and collect information about the enemy and provide money and equipment for the French resistance. Between 1941 and 1944, his organization placed 366 agents in France and set up nearly 50 networks. The office later moved to 64 Baker Street, London.