Norman Jewell

Captain Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell MBE DSC (24 October 1913 – 18 August 2004) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

As commander of the submarine HMS Seraph, Jewell was involved in one of the most vital acts of deception of the Second World War. The story of Operation Mincemeat, as the plan was known, became the subject of several books and was made into the 1955 film The Man Who Never Was.

Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell, or Bill as he was known, was born on Mahé in the Seychelles on 24 October 1913 where his father was a doctor and a colonial officer. His father left his family in the Seychelles to join the Army in East Africa during the First World War. At the end of the war, the family moved to Kenya and Jewell was sent to prep school in England and finally Oundle School before joining the Navy in 1936.

Jewell served on HMS Osiris and HMS Otway, and in November 1940 joined HMS Truant commanded by Lt-Cdr Haggard, who was constantly seeking the enemy and was something of a mentor to Jewell. On one occasion Haggard disobeyed orders not to approach within 15 miles of Tripoli but in fact penetrated a dense minefield by following an Italian minelayer. Six months later he led battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet through the same minefield to bombard Tripoli.

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