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WW2 dentist’s spy letters auctioned
Glasgow-based practitioner was Colditz POW L
etters, papers and photographs from a British officer of the Army Dental Corps who worked
as a spy while a prisoner of war, are to be sold at auction. Captain Julius Morris
Green was born in 1912 and spent his early childhood in Killarney where his father had a dental practice. He studied at the Dental School of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and was practising in Glasgow when he joined the Territorial Army in 1939, being posted to the 152 (H) Field Ambulance of the 51 Highland Division. He was captured with his
brigade at St Valery in June 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in a succession of camps. In January 1941, when at Ilag VII (Tittmoning), he was taught the code used to communicate with MI9, the War Office department tasked with aiding resistance fighters in enemy occupied territory and gathering intelligence from British prisoners of war. Being a dentist, he was in an especially good position to carry out such espionage
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work; as he spent much of his time travelling from camp to camp, treating patients. However, his misbehaviour
– unrelated to his espionage work for which he would have faced certain death if discovered – meant that he eventually received the honour of being confined to Oflag IV-C, better known as Colditz. In its communica- tions with Captain Green, MI9 usually used the conduit of his parents, John and Clara Green of Dunfermline. The War Office department also communicated with Capt Green through a number of coded letters from non- existent people, concocted by operatives at MI9.
® Read extracts from Capt Green's letters at
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