Major Richard Arthur Rubinstein MC TD (29 August 1921 – 23 February 2005[1]) was a British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma.
[4][5] He led the Special Operations Executive Jedburgh team that was parachuted safely, despite ground fire, into Brittany on the night of 6 August 1944, bearing five million francs for the French Resistance.
The following weeks were spent with the SAS and the Forces Français de L'Interieur helping to land gliders loaded with arms and hiding in an oyster farm between operations.
In December 1944, he and two colleagues were parachuted into northern Burma to gather intelligence on Japanese supply lines and to stoke the resistance movement among the local Kachins, who were sympathetic to the Allied forces.
After two months, he led his team south to Toungoo to join forces holding back the Japanese advance on Siam.