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Are you by chance related to Captain Stephen Peacock, famed WWII veteran of combat in North Africa against Irwin Rommel and A retired Floor Walker at Grace Brothers Dept. Store?

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A retired Floor Walker at Grace Brothers Dept. Store?

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famed WWII veteran of combat in North Africa against Irwin Rommel

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Men like Capt. Peacock and the honorable John Steed are few and far between these days. Those denizens of the Great War trading wits and tactics with that desert fox Rommel himself deserve to be mentioned to these millennial freebie chasers.

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Why there cannot be a fellow more wary of the tricks of Cold War villainy than Agent Steed.

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Quite. The Honorable John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed personified all that is best in the British character. Seconded to the Special Operations Executive by the British Army during the last half of the World War II, Steed was instrumental in setting up a network of agents behind enemy lines who assisted the Allies as they moved forward.

After the war the SOE was dissolved and Steed moved seamlessly into MI6, where he ran agents into Communist Albania, all of whom were caught and imprisoned or executed due to his treasonous MI6 colleague Kim Philby, who was working for the Soviets.

Steed was a colorful character, known for his impeccable bespoke, Saville Row, three-piece suits and his ever-present umbrella, which contained operational equipment known only to those familiar with the trade-craft. Would that we had such men amongst us today.

Bill

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both of them missed "the Great War" (world war I) as they weren't born until the early 1920's...

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That explains why they were killed by the spanish flu after WW2

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Having lost the plot, here is an impression of me reading through the last few posts:

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It's a burden of a last name, I'll tell you that.
How can one ever be just a humble Peacock?

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eh? Spanish flu was post-WW1, and they both made it well into the 1970's..

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Would that we had such men amongst us today.

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He didn't get half as much stick as he should have 😂

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The name is Steed, John Steed.

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he name is Steed, John Steed.


You have posted one of the very few photos of John Steed, taken on one of his clandestine trips to Washington. Steed was concerned that the British MI6 officer Kim Philby was a Soviet double agent, feeding information to his handlers in Moscow and passing disinformation to the British Embassy and the CIA in Washington.

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any more questions?

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He didn't get half as much stick as he should have 😂

here's the general list:
yes, i pee with my cock
no, my wifes name isnt' peacunt
any more questions?

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Thanks :-)

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Quite correct Old Bean. And whilst Steed stayed in DC he recounted in his memoirs that to relax and take a few well deserved hours of rest from the tense games of CIA cat and mouse he retired to the Jernigan Suites Bar in Adams Morgan.

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The name is Steed, John Steed.