import and exports and other activities. In 1954, he left that business to accept a post as Vice-President of the Canadian branch of an American oilwell drilling and services company, H. J. Eastman, in Calgary, Alberta. Living for several years in Canada and then in Australia, he returned to Canada in the early 1970s and died in Calgary at the age of 68. A book giving an account of the SOE Operation in Romania was written by one member of the team, Ivor Porter, later a British Ambassador (Operation Autonomous: With SOE in Wartime Rumania, Chatto and Windus, 1989). He was a founding member of the Special Forces Club in Knightsbridge, and of the "Food and Wine Society" in Calgary. Notes References Alesandru Duţu, Florica Dobre, Andrei Siperco, "Pagini dintr-o istorie nescrisă: 1941-1945. Prizonieri de război în România" (Pages from an Unwritten History: 1941-1945. Prisoners of War in Romania"), in Magazin Istoric, March 1997 Tatiana Pokivailova, Ioan Chiper, "Procesul Maniu în arhivele de la Moscova" ("The Maniu Trial in the Moscow Archives"), in Magazin Istoric, April 2002 1906 births 1974 deaths Alumni of the University of London Anglo-Scots Artists' Rifles officers British Special Operations Executive personnel Special Air Service officers British emigrants to Canada British Army personnel of World War II 20th-century Canadian businesspeople Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Officers of the Order of the British Empire Businesspeople from London World War II prisoners of war held by Romania Romania in World War II Scottish Canadians BP people 20th-century English businesspeople