Meet Charlie HargreavesThanks to terrific L-Dotter Liberty7, who finds these
terrific WWII stories seemingly every night when I'm checking
Lucianne.
Charles Hargreaves, who has died aged 87, was parachuted into Yugoslavia by the Special Operations Executive to make himself "useful" to the Chetnik Royalist forces in 1943.
Speaking no Serbo-Croat but impeccably turned out in service dress, Sam Browne and riding boots, he narrowly missed landing on top of the signal bonfire. He then marched up to the waiting Chetniks, came to attention and saluted. An eyewitness said: "In the silence which succeeded the gasp of admiration, you could almost hear the prestige of the British Empire rising".Okay, that sounds a bit over the top, but you have to read the whole story.