Izzy Newman, born out of Jewish parents studied French, English and Latin at Durham University and upon finishing his studies he settled in Hull as a teacher in a Primary School.
On 29 August 1940 he joined the army and trained as a radio telegraphist with the Royal Corps of Signals. After a posting to Scarborough Isidore was sent to Kent for four months as a signalman. He was then commissioned as First Lieutenant and finished training on 9 July 1941, from where he went to Sheffield with the 12th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment. In August 1941 he joined SOE and sent for Wireless Officer training.
On 31 March 1942 Newman was sent into the field for his first mission. He was to work with Francis Basin. Accompanied by Peter Churchill with the agents Edward Zeff and two others they flew to Gibraltar, travelled by submarine to the Riviera and landed from a folboat at Antibes. In the Autumn of 1942, he was sent back after which he reached Britain on 23 November 1942.
Following his return he was trained to learn the latest radio techniques.
For his second mission he was flown on the night of 19/20 July 1943 by Lysander, piloted by 'Mac' McCairns. He was to work as a W/T operator in the Rouen area with the agent ‘Clément’ (Major Staunton or Phillipe Liewer) for the ‘Salesman’ Circuit.
Newman was arrested on 9 or 10 March 1944 and was taken for interrogation to the Palais de Justice in Rouen and in April to Paris for further interrogation at 84 Avenue Foch where he was the cell mate of George Starr.
When the Gestapo could not get any more information out of him he was transported to Ravitsch and lastly transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp where he was executed on 7 September 1944.
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