Person · Allied colleague
Captain Cartwright
The section’s Field Security Officer.
In the book
Smashed up in a car crash the day before embarkation and left in hospital in Oran, so the section lands in Italy leaderless; when he finally reaches them, his face ‘covered with plaster’, it is to admit that their presence at Paestum serves ‘no purpose of any kind’.
Appears in 2 diary entries.
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September 9 1943Landing at Paestum amid dead soldiers and eerie calm; the section is left rudderless, with no briefing, next to the ancient temples.
Field Security Officer, injured in a car crash before embarkation
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September 21 1943Ordered back to the idle beachhead life at Paestum despite its pointlessness; the section finally gets a small, real intelligence task that evening.
tells the section their presence at Paestum serves no purpose
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