Monday, 1 July 1940

Ringway

Pilot Officer Louis Strange, DSO, MC, DFC* takes command of the Parachute Training School at Ringway, as Acting Squadron Leader.

London


Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, calls a meeting in which he requires a centralised control of all the clandestine operations.

France

A French motor torpedo-boat (MTB) returns at night to a beach near Brest and picks up an unidentified agent it had landed on 20th June.