Then and now |
(OSS agents experience winter training at Camp-X)
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The same location years later.
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Lynn operates an Enigma Machine at Bletchley Park - May 2001 |
Lynn listens to Russian traffic at Fox Station - Bletchley Park |
Unlike Canada, this is how England and Bletchley Park preserves its historical heritage. Here, Lynn looks into Hut 4 of the famous code breakers at Bletchley Park, a building that appears exactly as it did during World War II. |
An ‘Enigma Machine’ |
‘Beaulieu’ - England’s Camp-X during WWII |
Bletchley Park Manor just north of London where thousands of signals were transmitted daily to and from Camp-X |
Camp-X (1942) |
Camp-X (1942) |
Sten Gun used extensively at Camp-X |
‘Button Compass’ much like the one used by Camp-X agents |
Bill Hardcastle centre, Lynn Philip Hodgson far right, and members of the North Shore Radio Club |
General Constantine and Billy Bishop |
Camp-X from the air - 1943 |
In this photo (1943), agents at Camp-X learn how to hide in a hay wagon. |
Here they have been discovered by Camp-X guards as part of the agents’ simulation training. |
Hydra 1942 |
The Communications Building - 1942 |
Ontario Hydro workers erect the 100’ tall Rhombic Antennae
Read the story by clicking here |
Camp-X 1942 Camp-X 1978 |
Andy ‘Daniels’ and other secret agents
(Bari, Italy 1943) |
This comb was carried throughout Andy Daniels’ mission behind enemy
lines. It is not a normal comb, but a very special one made by a ‘secret department (Magic)’ of the SOE. If Andy Daniels, after being dropped behind enemy lines, were to become lost he would simply break open this comb and he would find a compass inside! |
Bill Hardcastle at Camp-X 1942 |
Commandant Arthur Terence Roper-Caldbeck (1942) |
Commandant Bill Brooker
(1942-43) |
Commandant Cuthbert Skilbeck
(1943-44) |
Hamish Pelham Burn
Explosives instructor (1943-44)
A real WWII hero! |
Hamish (second from left), Jack Clayton and Andy McClure
(The ‘Dream Team’ of SOE saboteurs) |
In 2003, the author of ‘Inside Camp-X’, Lynn Philip Hodgson, returned to England yet another time in search of information about Camp-X. This time, he was able to locate and interview the families of the three commandants of Camp-X. The families provided him with a treasure chest of historic photographs. In this personal picture, C.O. Cuthbert Skilbeck is photographed in the backyard of his father’s home on the very day that he set sail for Canada and Camp-X. |
Major James (Paddy) Adams
(Signals Instructor) |
Major Arthur Jackson Bushell
(Adjutant Quartermaster) |
Major Fred Milner
(Explosives Instructor) |
Sergeant-Major George de Relwyskow
(Small Arms Instructor)
Read the story here |
Hamish Pelham Burn (left)
Chief Explosives Instructor (1943-44) |
This motorcycle was folded and sent with the agents behind enemy lines |
Sargeant Clayton, instructor at Camp-X, stands beside a Avro Anson from Oshawa Airport |
Commandant Skilbeck and his
Canadian Team (1943) |
Commandant Skilbeck and his
senior staff |
The Sinclair Farmhouse (1905) |
Ian Fleming - author James Bond
For more about Ian fleming
please read the story of Paul Dehn |
The Camp-X Mural - Downtown Oshawa |
Camp-X Museum - 2003 |
Lynn Philip Hodgson conducts one of many walking Tours of Camp-X
(Summer 2005) |
Camp-X Instructor Bill Girard
(1942) |
American OSS agents at Camp-X
(1943) |
Sir William Stephenson’s grave in Bermuda |
Eric Curwain (a.k.a. Bill Simpson)
recruited secret agents for Camp-X |
Camp-X from air 1968 |
RDX explosives training 1943 at Camp-X
(note the pieces of molten rock flying in all directions) |
Explosion at the famous ‘Corbett Creek’. (1943) Made famous by children’s author of ‘Camp-X’, my good friend Eric Walters |
Camp-X gate (1963) |
Winston Churchill / William and Mary Stephenson |
Corbett Creek from west side (1943) |
The great William Fairbairn,
the most talented silent killer
in the world |
Major Fairbairn illustrates the art of ‘silent killing’. Within moments of shaking hands with Fairbairn, an unsuspecting man can only muster up a silent gasp before death. |
A Halifax Bomber used to drop secret agents behind enemy lines |
Harry Court, explosives instructor at Camp-X in 1942. This picture was taken years later during his retirement |
The 90 foot high jump tower
Camp-X 1942
Note... no railings |
Igor Gouzenko |
‘Forbidden Beach’
Igor Gouzenko had little else to do but walk down to the beach and paint. Here he painted a picture of the area. If you walk down to the beach today, you can stand at this exact spot and see this scene, unchanged in almost 70 years. |
Here’s what it looks like today. |
Inside Hydra (1942) |
Camp-X 1947
It was a this point that the Camp was turned over to the Canadian Signal Corp. and operated as the ‘Oshawa Wireless Station’ (RC SIGS) until its closure in 1969.
Note that the fence was tightened in around the buildings with barbed wire being added to the top. |
The Camp-X Monument - Intrepid Park |
Camp-X under construction - November 1941
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