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John Ashford Renshaw Starr (6 August 1908 – 1996), code names Emile and Bob, was a British artist and an agent in France of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization during World War II. He was the organiser (leader) of the Acrobat network (or circuit) which operated in Dijon. The purpose of SOE in occupied France was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.

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  • John Starr (fr)
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  • John Starr, dit Bob Starr, né le 6 août 1908 et mort en 1996, est un artiste et soldat britannique, agent secret du Special Operations Executive, section française (F). Sous le nom de guerre « Bob », il mit en place le réseau ACROBAT qui soutint la résistance française dans la zone de Saint-Étienne à Dijon, de mai à juillet 1943. Arrêté par les Allemands, emprisonné et déporté, il survécut. Son histoire est racontée dans le livre The Starr Affair de Jean Overton Fuller. (fr)
  • John Ashford Renshaw Starr (6 August 1908 – 1996), code names Emile and Bob, was a British artist and an agent in France of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization during World War II. He was the organiser (leader) of the Acrobat network (or circuit) which operated in Dijon. The purpose of SOE in occupied France was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. (en)
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