Defence Regulation 18B, often referred to as simply 18B, was one of the Defence Regulations used by the British Government during and before the Second...
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was imprisoned in London from May 1940 until November 1943 under Defence Regulation 18B. Unity, fanatically devoted to Hitler and Nazism, was distraught...
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Diana Mosley (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Mosleys were interned during much of the Second World War, under Defence Regulation 18B, along with other British fascists including Norah Elam. MI5 documents...
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the form of the Defence (General) Regulations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/978) and included Defence Regulation 18B, which provided...
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Tommy Moran (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
saw him win only 151 votes (1.0%). Following the first round of Defence Regulation 18B internments Moran, whom Diana Mosley continued to pay a wage to...
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and Diana, who had married secretly in 1936, were detained under Defence Regulation 18B. Nancy, in full antifascist mode, had described her sister to the...
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number of prominent BUF members were arrested and interned under Defence Regulation 18B. Oswald Mosley was the youngest elected Conservative MP before crossing...
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Norah Elam (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
the home". In May 1940 Norah and Dudley Elam were detained under Defence Regulation 18B and she was interned in Holloway Prison with several other female...
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Archibald Maule Ramsay (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
States embassy, he became the only British MP to be interned under Defence Regulation 18B. In 1939, Ramsay formed the explicitly pro-Nazi Right Club, intending...
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Enid Riddell (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Official Secrets Act 1911, then detained under the expanded Defence Regulation 18B (DR 18B) and interned in Holloway prison.: 194 After her release from...
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St John Philby (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
he travelled to Bombay, he was arrested on 3 August 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B, deported to England and there briefly interned. Shortly after his...
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and Nazi Germany, was interned by the British authorities under Defence Regulation 18B, along with other active fascists in Britain. Max's mother was imprisoned...
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Duncan Scott-Ford (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
order to keep Scott-Ford in custody, an order was issued under Defence Regulation 18B for him to be detained. He was sent to Camp 020, an interrogation...
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with Nazi figures and her subsequent three-year internment under Defence Regulation 18B. She also recounts her friendships with leading literary figures...
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George Pitt-Rivers (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Germany. On 27 June 1940, Pitt-Rivers was arrested and interned under Defence Regulation 18B as a British Union of Fascists sympathiser. He was an unpopular...
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Henry Williamson (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
from his plan. In June 1940, Williamson was briefly held under Defence Regulation 18B as a member of the British Union of Fascists. Williamson was very...
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Jorian Jenks (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
with most of the leading figures in the group was detained under Defence Regulation 18B in 1940. Indeed, in the run-up to the detentions Mosley's contingency...
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Jessie Jordan (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Jessie Jordan (23 December 1887 – 1954) was a Scottish hairdresser who was found guilty of spying for the German Abwehr (military intelligence) on the...
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Oswald Mosley (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
never formally charged with a crime, and was instead interned under Defence Regulation 18B. Most other active fascists in Britain met the same fate, resulting...
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Frederick Rutland (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
on 5 October 1941 and on 16 December 1941 he was interned under Defence Regulation 18B "by reason of alleged hostile associations". This internment was...
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Arnold Leese (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
United Kingdom at the beginning of the Second World War under the Defence Regulation 18B. Leese, who claimed that his primary loyalty was to Britain, had...
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Barry Domvile (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
imprisonment. Domvile himself was interned during Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B from 7 July 1940 to 29 July 1943. During his wartime captivity,...
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Arthur Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket KStJ (4 August 1904 – 24 March 1967) was a prominent British Nazi sympathiser and Conservative Party politician...
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service. During the war its founder, Domvile, was interned under Defence Regulation 18B, after being implicated in a fascist plot against the British government...
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Neil Francis Hawkins (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
was arrested along with Mosley and others under the first wave of Defence Regulation 18B swoops in 1940. Held in internment in Stafford and Brixton Prisons...
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W. G. Barlow (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Second World War. He was detained by the British government under Defence Regulation 18B during the Second World War. Barlow was born at Ashford, Wilmslow...
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activities. Unlike Joyce, the Elams did not escape detention under Defence Regulation 18B; both were arrested on the same day as Mosley in May 1940. In later...
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Henry Tibbs (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Anglican priest briefly interned in the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B for his alleged pro-Nazi sympathies. Henry Tibbs was the rector...
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Arthur Donaldson (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
of this information, Donaldson was arrested and interned under Defence Regulation 18B, sent first to Kilmarnock Prison and then to Barlinnie Prison in...
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Angus Macnab (category People detained under Defence Regulation 18B)
Macnab served as an ambulance driver, but was soon detained under Defence Regulation 18B due to his previous Nazi sympathies. He was the first person to...
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