Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, heralded as the 'founding father of modern English literature' yet denied honours during his life, was born in a frontier town in Idaho in 1885, the son of an assistant assayer and the grandson of [...]
Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson was of the First World War generation from whose experiences emerged a new but eternal world-view. Williamson, like Knut Hamsun in Norway, saw mans' place in Nature as the ultimate source of one's being, [...]
Audrey Hepburn’s Parents
Audrey Hepburn : The Mosley Connection. Audrey Hepburn was born on 4 May 1929 in Ixelles, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was a British subject, and her mother, Baroness [...]
Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis is credited with being the founder of the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Nonetheless, he is seldom spoken of in the same breath as his contemporaries, Ezra Pound, James Joyce,. T [...]
Fay Taylour
Living Life in the Fast Lane. A fascinating and well researched study has been completed on the legendary ‘Queen of Speedway’ Fay Taylour – the world’s most successful woman motor sports competitor - who as Prisoner [...]
Diana Mosley
The death of Lady Diana Mosley at the age of 93 on the 11th August 2003 is a sad loss to all Friends of Oswald Mosley. Quite apart from being the wife of the Leader, she [...]
Jeffrey Hamm
Jeffrey Hamm was one of the handful of activists who kept the flame of British Nationalism alive in the barren years following the Second World War. A life-long supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley, he served in [...]
Robert Row
Robert Row began his political career by joining the Lancaster Branch of British Union in 1934 at the age of 17. The young Bob threw himself into Blackshirt activity which in those early days attracted much [...]
Olive Hawks
Olive Hawks joined the secretarial staff of British Union at the age of 16 and soon became assistant to George Sutton, the Director of Research. However, her commitment to "British Socialism" soon gained her a speakers [...]
John Warburton
John Warburton: Blackshirt and Founding Editor of ‘Comrade’. The Friends of Mosley (FOM) was formed in 1982 to provide comradeship for veteran members of British Union and Union Movement. This included an annual dinner and buffet [...]
D.M.K. Marendaz
Captain D.M.K. Marendaz was a swashbuckling ex-Royal Flying Corps pilot, who has his niche in the history of the sports car for the series of elegant custom built vehicles which bore his name...in the Twenties and [...]
Lucillia Reeve
Lucillia Reeve was born in March 1889 and began her working life as a domestic servant. She was committed to self education and with the encouragement of her mother she went on to work her way [...]
J.F.C. Fuller
Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller was born in Chichester in 1878. He was commissioned into the British army in 1899 and saw service during the Boar War in South Africa. During the First World War [...]
Dennis Lucan DFM
Dennis Lucan DFM - another of Mosley's young men, who nearly fifty years ago, was killed in action in the war which he, as a Blackshirt, had fought just as courageously to prevent. Dennis Lucan enlisted [...]
F.J.P. Veale
Frederick Veale who died in 1976, was a well known member of the Brighton Branch of British Union before the war. By profession he was a soldier. He was also a prolific writer and a regular [...]
Jorian Jenks
Jorian Jenks, when he was appointed British Union Parliamentary Candidate for Horsham and Worthing in 1936, was already well known to readers of "Action". The author of many brilliant articles on agriculture, sometimes as "Vergilius", was [...]
John Adrian Chamier
Air Commodore, Sir John Adrian Chamier K.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., was born in 1883. He was educated at St. Paul's School and R.M.C. Sandhurst and served in the Indian Army between 1902 and 1915. He [...]
Bob Saunders OBE
Robert Saunders could probably have become Vice President of the National Farmers Union. However, before the election he announced that he wanted all those who supported him to know of his support for British Union and [...]
Wilfred Risdon
Wilfred Risdon was born in 1896 in Bath, the last of ten surviving children of a bespoke boot & shoe maker father, and shoe machinist mother, who died when Wilfred was fifteen. The family was probably [...]
Alliot Verdon Roe
Alliot Verdon Roe was born in 1877 in Patricroft, Manchester. His father was a Doctor and his mother was later famous for her work in organising and setting standards for day nurseries. His father had hoped [...]
Joan Morgan
The Film Star who became a member of the British Union of Fascists. Joan Morgan was born on 1 February 1905 at 13 St Germans Road, Forest Hill, London. She was the only child of Sidney [...]
Gladys Walsh
In 1940 Mrs. Gladys Walsh (nee Libiter) became the last Womens District Leader for the Limehouse branch of British Union. This transcription comes from a recording made by the FOM Sound Archive on 6 July 1988. [...]
Maurice Braddell
Maurice Braddell: from William Joyce to Andy Warhol. In a February 1937 issue of ‘Action’ reviewing the recently released film ‘Beloved Enemy’ there was a suggestion that the star, actress Merle Oberon, was Jewish. This was [...]
Neil Francis Hawkins
NEIL FRANCIS-HAWKINS, Joined the British Fascists on their formation in the early 1920's, and he carried the bulk of the male membership from that declining organisation with him to join Oswald Mosley in his newly formed [...]