After leaving Burghley Road Grammar school at the age of fifteen, Henderson worked briefly in a die-cast metal works before following his father into the Royal Navy.

He served on numerous ships, reaching the rank of Commander by his mid twenties. In 1931 he moved into a diplomatic role, serving as a naval attaché in Gibraltar and North Africa.

Henderson turned down two offers of promotion to Captain, preferring to apply for more junior postings at sea. Unfortunately, Henderson’s language skills – he not only spoke the five major European languages fluently but could accurately mimic regional dialects – meant that he was of more use to the Royal Navy behind a desk.

In 1935 Henderson was reprimanded and transferred to an obscure branch of Naval intelligence known as the Espionage Research Unit following a dispute with his commanding officer.

Henderson married Joan Harper-Watt in 1929. A daughter Hayley was born in 1936 but died from tuberculosis at the age of eighteen months.

 

 

 

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1907 
London, UK.

Above average height, dark hair. Handsome, slightly unkempt appearance but with good teeth.

The thrill of the chase.

Bureaucrats, Nazis.

 

 

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