Eric Welsh

Eric Welsh CMG OBE RNVR (31 August 1897 – 21 November 1954) was a British chemist and naval intelligence officer during the Second World War.

[1] Welsh is fleetingly referred to in the Norwegian television series The Heavy Water War and, based on the comments by Stephen Dorril of Welsh as a "...ladies' man who drank and smoked to excess" and a "master of dirty tricks",[2] alluded to as one of the models to James Bond.

Their principal operational goals were to gather information on German warships and ships traffic along the Norwegian coast.

The normal communication channel was coded radio transmissions.

26 of the radio agents in Norway lost their lives during the war, either in combat, or after being captured by the Germans.

Eric Welsh in a meeting with Samuel Goudsmit , Fred Wardenburg and Rupert Cecil
The German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch with Welsh in battledress at top centre, Rupert Cecil nearest camera