Richard Harry Heslop
Richard Harry Heslop, DSO was a British agent for the Special Operations Executive during World War II. Of the more than 400 SOE agents who worked in France during World War II, M.R.D. Foot, the official historian of the SOE, named Heslop as one of the half-dozen best male agents.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School.
He worked for the French section of the organisation, and under the codename Xavier, was the organiser of the Marksman circuit.Footnotes
