Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins - Revision history

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 Research by Joan West
 [[File:Colin and Xxxxxx Gubbins.jpg|alt=.|left|thumb|Sir Colin and Tulla Gubbins]]
-'''Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins purchased White House Farm in 1952'''.
+'''Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins purchased [[White House Farm]] in 1952'''.
 '''The following extracts''' are taken from "GUBBINS & SOE" by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley.    Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited.  Leo Cooper.

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 Research by Joan West
 [[File:Colin and Xxxxxx Gubbins.jpg|alt=.|left|thumb|Sir Colin and Tulla Gubbins]]
-'''Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins purchased [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/White_House_Farm_or_Sunnybank White House Farm or Sunnybank] in 1952'''.
+'''Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins purchased White House Farm in 1952'''.
 '''The following extracts''' are taken from "GUBBINS & SOE" by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley.    Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited.  Leo Cooper.

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 Colin was an enthusiastic and "very good gardener", said Tulla, " planted everything in straight lines, like a regiment,".
+[[File:Sir Colin Gubbins Portrait.jpg|left|thumb]]
 He was in fact an enthusiast in all that he did, not least in his self-education.   He visited art galleries, he read novels, and he went to the ballet, which he loved.   He was sixty- five years old when he started learning to play the concertina which, he said, he found "a most effective aid to tranquillity", though he doubted whether his wife felt the same."

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 '''The following extracts''' are taken from "GUBBINS & SOE" by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley.    Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited.  Leo Cooper.
+[[File:Colin Gubbins.jpg|alt=.|thumb|Sir Colin Gubbins]]
 '''"Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, leader of the Special Operations Executive in WW2,''' had retired from the army.  His second wife, Tulla, searched and found White House Farm at Lacey Green in the Chilterns, a delightful house with a garden and an orchard, easily accessible from London.

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 Research by Joan West
+[[File:Colin and Xxxxxx Gubbins.jpg|alt=.|left|thumb|Sir Colin and Tulla Gubbins]]
 '''Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins purchased [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/White_House_Farm_or_Sunnybank White House Farm or Sunnybank] in 1952'''.

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−	.	+	Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins purchased [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/White_House_Farm_or_Sunnybank White House Farm or Sunnybank] in 1952.
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		+	'''The following extracts''' are taken from "GUBBINS & SOE" by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley. Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited. Leo Cooper.
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		+	"Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, leader of the Special Operations Executive in WW2, had retired from the army. His second wife, Tulla, searched and found White House Farm at Lacey Green in the Chilterns, a delightful house with a garden and an orchard, easily accessible from London. Colin was an enthusiastic and "very good gardener", said Tulla, " planted everything in straight lines, like a regiment," He was in fact an enthusiast in all that he did, not least in his self-education. He visited art galleries, he read novels, and he went to the ballet, which he loved. He was sixty- five years old when he started learning to play the concertina which, he said, he found "a most effective aid to tranquillity", though he doubted whether his wife felt the same."
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		+	"Lacey Green was their base in England for twenty three years. 'Obbe' the house in Leverburgh, Isle of Harris, Scotland, was their true love, where they went as often as they could between their social and business commitments and their travels for SOE reunions and functions." (Put 'obituary' in Search for other life histories)