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Brigadier Dudley Wrangel Clarke, CB, CBE (27 April 1899 – 7 May 1974) was an officer in the British Army, known as a pioneer of military deception operations during the Second World War.
23. Mai 2013 · Lt Col Dudley Clarke, a British intelligence officer in the Middle East, was detained by Spanish police in 1941 for dressing as a woman. He claimed he was a novelist and a prankster, but German intelligence tried to exploit the incident as a spy scandal.
- Independent Staff
12. Mai 2024 · Dudley Clarke was the British army’s greatest deception expert during the second World War, hoodwinking Erwin Rommel at the Battle of El Alamein and laying the foundations for...
15. Mai 2018 · Learn about Dudley Clarke, a British intelligence officer who created the Commandos and the SAS, and used deception and subterfuge to fool the Axis powers in World War 2. Discover his unconventional background, his daring schemes, and his controversial cross-dressing habit.
- Ciaran Conliffe
23. Mai 2013 · Lt Col Dudley Clarke, photographed by police shortly after his arrest, was considered a leading expert in military deception. One of Britain's most influential World War II spies was arrested in...
Learn how Dudley Clarke, a South African-born British officer, created the Commandos to harass the Nazis in World War II. Discover his background, his role in the desert war, and his controversial operations in Norway and Italy.
28. Apr. 2020 · One man with whom those words struck a powerful chord was Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Wrangel Clarke. Known as a maverick free-thinker, Clarke had first come to notice when General Archibald Wavell had recognized his, “unorthodox outlook on soldiering,” and “ingenuity.”
