Sigismund Payne Best

Captain Sigismund Payne Best, with monocle (1939)

Captain Sigismund Payne Best OBE (14 April 1885 – 21 September 1978) was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent during the First and Second World Wars. He was captured by German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) men on 9 November 1939 in the Venlo Incident.[1][2]

  1. ^ Watt, D. Cameron. Best, Sigismund Payne (1885–1978), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004).
  2. ^ "Der Venlo-Zwischenfall".