Selwyn Jepson [SEP] conflict
School, London and the Sorbonne. He served in the Tank Corps during World War I and in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in World War II.
In his SOE role, "Captain" Selwyn Jepson was recruiting officer for F section, the independent French section. As a recruiter he was one of SOE's "most skilled craftsmen", and he was SOE's senior recruiting officer. When interviewed by the Imperial War Museum he stated:
M. R. D. Foot's "SOE" contains an illuminating
Selwyn Jepson
Selwyn Jepson (Bloomsbury 25th November 1899-Empshott, Hampshire 1989) was a British mystery/detective author and screenwriter, and builder of the Far House, Farther Common, Liss, Hampshire.
His father was the mystery/detective author Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863–1938); his mother was Frieda Holmes, daughter of the musician Henry Holmes. His sister Margaret (1907–2003), also a novelist, was the mother of author Fay Weldon.
Youth and SOE Service.
Jepson was educated at St Paul's