Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat/The Hackney Mortuary played an important role/in a British military operation during the/Second World War (1939-1945), which helped/save the live of thousands of soldiers./In April 1943 Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu OBE KC RNVR/a British Jew, and Flight Lieutenant Charles C Cholmondeley MBE/RAF, a British aristocrat, planned Operation Mincemeat to misdirect/German forces' attention away from the Allied invasion of Sicily./They brought the donated body of a man to the Hackney/Mortuary where it stayed on ice for three months. Cholmondeley/and Montagu transformed the corpse into a fictitious officer/Major William Martin. The body was taken to Scotland and then/to a point off southern Spain, where it was placed in the water/carrying false letters from senior Allied Officers suggesting/the Allies would invade Greece, not Sicily. When the body/was found, the letters were shared with Nazi intelligence,/misdirecting German forces, saving thousands of British and/American soldiers' lives during the invasion of Sicily.//Set a watch before my mouth Lord and over the door of my lips/[that verse is then repeated in Hebrew]/Psalms 141:3//Hackney Council, Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation/Martin Sugarman (Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women,/ Stamford Hill and Hackney Branch)