24-01-2019, 11:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-01-2019, 11:57 AM by jansens.
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I've long had an interest in WW2 things and of course vintage cars and vintage car racing but tonight is the first time I have come across William Grover-Williams and was wondering if anyone else has heard of him? Maybe I am just slow!
This is the link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grover-Williams
Basically he was a half French, half English chap who ended up marrying his employers ex mistress, won the first Monaco GP in a Bugatti painted in british racing green and then was in the SOE in WW2 working in France where he set up an agent network before getting caught and executed by the Nazis in 1945.
In a world now where people are famous for only being famous I feel bad people like this aren't better known.
Simon
This is the link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grover-Williams
Basically he was a half French, half English chap who ended up marrying his employers ex mistress, won the first Monaco GP in a Bugatti painted in british racing green and then was in the SOE in WW2 working in France where he set up an agent network before getting caught and executed by the Nazis in 1945.
In a world now where people are famous for only being famous I feel bad people like this aren't better known.
Simon