Charles Frederick William Grover was born on 16 January 1903, at Montrouge, Paris, France. His father, Frederick Grover, is English and a horse breeder. The mother of William Hermance Dagan Grover, was French. When William was eleven, his parents sent him to England to stay with relatives. After War Globally, the family moved to Monte Carlo, where William developed an interest in automobiles. He learned to drive a Rolls Royce and obtained a driver's license in Monaco. When he was 15, bought a motorcycle he adored. In 1919, William Orpen, the official artist of the Paris Peace Conference to be hired Grover his driver. During this work, we addressed both Orpen Aubicq Yvonne and her lover with whom he befriended.

In early 1920 Grover started in motorcycle racing, but he ran under the name of W. Williams to keep his family to find out. Again, using the pseudonym W. Grover Williams began to enter the motor racing He began driving a Bugatti at the Grand Prix of Provence and the Monte Carlo Rally. He won the Grand Prix in 1928 and 1929. Back in 1929, entered the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix. William came in first past the famous German pilot Rudolf Caracciola. In the same year he married Yvonne had Aubicq

dissolved and its relationship to Orpen. Grover-Williams continues to race and in 1931 the first in the Grand Prix of Belgium in the

Spa-Francorchamps. Then he went on to win Grand Prix of La Baule each year from 1931 to 1933.

When the Nazis invaded and occupied France in World War II, Grover-Williams went to England to join the Royal Army Service Corps. But his fluency in English and French attracted the attention of the Special Operations Executive, an intelligence unit of English which had been formed to organize and help the underground resistance forces in Nazi-occupied countries of Europe. The SOE

Grover-Williams contract and then an extensive training was parachuted into France with orders to establish an underground network code named "Brown". Its mission was to organize a Resistance Army for use in the impending invasion of France and to carry out sabotage operations against the Nazis. Williams' friends Grover in the racetrack, Robert Benoist and Jean-Pierre Wimille joined him to help establish the network.

Unfortunately, the Nazis learned of the operation, possibly through of a double agent and attacked in August 1943. Grover-Williams was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and is believed to have been executed there in March 1945. A game video, called the saboteur has been created with an Irish actor, whose name is Sean Devlin. Devlin paper is believed to be based on the experiences of war, Grover-Williams. The novel

Robert Ryan, 'An early morning "is also based on intelligence activities, Grover-Williams and his friends racing, Benoist and Wimille.

The Brookwood Memorial in Surrey, England Grover-Williams lists as one of the SOE agents who gave their lives to liberate France. He is also honored in France with his name on the Memorial Honor Roll Valencay SOE in the city of Valencay.

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