Arthur Christie

This article is about the British Special Operations Executive. For the American artist, see Arthur N. Christie.

Arthur Christie (14 March 1921-2003) was a British coal miner and intelligence agent. He was seconded into Special Operations Executive on 22 April 1940 at Aston House, Stevenage, where he was to become one of the founding members of SOE. He was originally trained as an explosives expert, laying charges at the coalface as a miner. It was this expertise that became the reason he was seconded from the regular army into MI6 (R) based at Aston House; this was the place christened "Churchill’s Toy Box."[1]

Christie was born in Cobridge, Staffordshire, one of seven siblings, and grew up in the nearby town of Burslem.[1] He left school at 14 and worked as a lathe turner and machine driller at the Sneyd Brick Company.[2] At 16, he became a coal miner and attended college to specialise in coal-blasting and explosive-handling.[1] The factory where he worked closed in 1939 and he enlisted with a friend in the RAF in Eltham, lying about his age as he was 17 at the time.[2]

Christie was part of the SOE group at Tanjong Balai, sending messaging back to Britain to warn of the build-up of Japanese troops.[3]

He was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. He was imprisoned in Nagaskai in 1945.[2]

His file is now open at the Public Record Office HS 9/313/1.

Legacy

Christie's son, Maurice, published the wartime memoirs of his father in 2004, one year after Arthur Christie's death.

References

  1. ^ a b c Turner, Des (30 September 2011). Station 12: SOE's Secret Weapons Centre. The History Press. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-0-7524-6818-1.
  2. ^ a b c Willis, John (2 August 2022). Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-912914-43-2.
  3. ^ Ltd, East Anglia Network. "Fall of Malaya and Singapore". www.britain-at-war.org.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

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