Alfred and Henry Newton, the song and dance 'Newton Twins', were brothers who joined the S.O.E. and were parachuted into France in 1942 to advise on the Resistance on sabotage operations. They had already lost their parents, wives and children to the war - they drowned when the ship they had been traveling on, SS Avoceta, a steam passenger-cargo ship, was torpedoed by a German U-boat on the night of 25 September 1941. The Newtons formed a circuit with their local French allies, given the name Greenheart, and it quickly grew to 200 members operating in and around Lyon, Saint Étienne and Le Puy. In 1943, they were captured, tortured and interrogated in Lyon by Klaus Barbie, and were eventually sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Offered here are two pieces of Alfred Newton's concentration camp uniform, including his 4.25 x 1.5 in. stenciled cloth prisoner number and his triangular red 'F' [French] prisoner nationality flash. The insignia are set upon a lightly-painted blue striped heavy stock board resembling a camp inmate's uniform. A calligraphic note attached beneath indicates that Alfred Newton had 'donated' these Buchenwald insignia, adding that of 41 SOE agents held at Buchenwald, 36 had been executed by war's end. An important and evocative relic.