John Macnamara

[1][4] He was also joint secretary, with the Liberal MP Wilfrid Roberts, of the Basque Children's Committee.

Burgess managed to gain contacts with highly placed homosexuals, like Edouard Pfeiffer, the chief private secretary of Édouard Daladier, French War Minister, an agent of the 2nd Office and of MI6.

Macnamara and Burgess were invited on several occasions to pleasure parties at Pfeiffer's or to Parisian nightclubs.

Macnamara had initially expressed great admiration for Nazi Germany, proclaiming that "Hitler will be able to do nothing wrong for us."

In December 1944, Colonel Macnamara was visiting Italy and was with the 1st London Irish who were moving into the Senio Line to relieve a Gurkha battalion.

He was watching men of the battalion move up to the line in company with Major M. V. S. Boswell when a sudden German mortar bombardment fell on the area.