Service number:

191433

Nationality:

British

Before the war a member of the British Chess Club of Paris where he met Georges Langelaan who would also become an SOE agent.

Mortimore became once interviewed Jean Moulin in Lisbon when Moulin was on his way to London to meet De Gaulle
Mortimore was c0-responsible for investigating several of the lines for passing letters, parcels, and people into and out of France.

According to MRD Foot's 'An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944' Mortimore was previously awarded an MBE.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Commandant (Major)

Unit:

Special Operations Executive (SOE), British Government

Awarded on:

December 1946

Citation:
"Commencing his work in France in the Resistance from August 1940 up to February 1941, he was thereafter charged with organising the passage of men and materials through Spain, Portugal and North Africa up to the liberation. He carried out with complete success all the missions entrusted to him in the formation of reseaux in France"

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Major

Awarded on:

June 13th, 1946

On the occasion of the HM King George VI's birthday.

In the London Gazette he is referred to as 'British subject resident in Portugal.'

• - FOOT, M.R.D., SOE in France.
  - Recommendation for Award for Mortimore, Laurent Henry Rank: Commandant Award:... | The National Archives
  - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37598/supplement/2755
  - The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog