A man who served as a British spy in the Second World War died in Charlottetown, P.E.I., this weekend at the age of 91.
Clifton Stewart died at his home Saturday.
In 1940, Stewart, an amateur ham radio operator, was recruited by British Service Co-ordination and was sent to the BSC's headquarters in New York, where his main task was to help develop radio communications equipment to receive and transmit secret information at a much faster pace than the hand-sent Morse code, he told the Charlottetown Guardian in 2009.
Stewart, who was then known only as W5, later spent time at Camp X, the secret Allied training centre near Oshawa, Ont., before being sent on several top-secret missions.
Although he was able to speak more openly about his time at Camp X after the statute of limitations ran out in 1995, there are some war-time secrets Stewart likely took to his grave.
"We have a separate oath that will go on forever, you see. Till death do us part," he told the Guardian. "Anything of significance will never be discussed."
Stewart was predeceased by his wife, Hilda. He leaves behind his four children, eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
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