Talk:Geoffrey J. Morton

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Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I have just posted a photo of Geoffrey J Morton.

It now doesn't look like Winterbottom is going to get the funding for Promised Land... so those claims may need to be amended.

Ghamh (talk) 11:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Assassination of Tom Wilkin

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Tom Wilkin is probably notable enough for his own article, but nothing in this section connects his assassination to Geoffrey Morton. As far as I know, there was no connection, and in any case it is the responsibility of the article to establish one. Therefore the text below is removed. Zero^talk 07:14, 10 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

By 1944 Wilkin had become an Assistant Superintendent and head of the CID's Jewish section, a considerable contrast to predecessor Ralph Cairns (killed by Irgun in 1939) Wilkin was a personable 'good' policeman. He eschewed physical coercion however his polite, pleasant manner allied to excellent Hebrew often lulled suspects into making damaging admissions during interviews, and Wilkin was seen as the mortal enemy of Lehi. Stern had ordered his assassination in 1941, however an irregular schedule made Wilkin particularly difficult to target. Stern's death shortly after being arrested by Wilkin gave added impetus to the order, (even though he was said to have stopped a detective who seemed about to shoot Stern immediately after finding him). In 1944 Wilkin was reported to be back in Tel Aviv and operatives combed the city for him. But he was recognised at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, tracked back to a police barracks and carefully surveilled. After their watchers had established that Wilkin regularly walked to his office, Stern's group struck and Wilkin age 35 was shot dead on the morning of 29 September 1944.<ref name="assassinations1"/><ref name="independence1"/><ref>''The Jerusalem Post'', 07/28/2009 [http://www.jpost.com/IsraelGuide/JerusalemAreaTours/Article.aspx?id=160 Jerusalem - British Beneath the surface]</ref><ref>[http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Colonial/Palestine/PPOCA_Roll.htm PALESTINE POLICE ROLL OF HONOUR]</ref> The two assassins fired 14 bullets, 11 of which hit Wilkin.<ref>Golan, Stern: The Man and His Gang, pp. 111-112</ref> One of the two guns used to shoot Wilkin was used in November 1944 by the Stern Group to assassinate Lord Moyne in Cairo.

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