Richard Gambier-Parry
British military officer
Died when: 71 years 150 days (856 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Brigadier Sir Richard Gambier-Parry, KCMG (20 January 1894 – 19 June 1965) was a British military officer who served in both the army and the air force during World War I.
He remained in military service post-war, but then entered into civilian life for more than a decade.In 1938, he was recruited by the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6).
Gambier-Parry led the Communications Section (Section VIII) of the SIS during World War II, and assembled a clandestine wireless network that connected the United Kingdom with SIS agents in many countries, as well as helping to create the SIS resistance network in Britain.
During the war, he was also recruited by the Director of British Naval Intelligence to serve as the radio consultant for Operation Tracer in Gibraltar.
Post-war, he ran a network of secret listening stations.
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