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|awards = |relations = |laterwork = Actor }} Meyrick Edward Clifton James (1898, Perth, Western Australia, Australia – 8 May 1963, Worthing, Sussex, England) was an actor and soldier, notable for his resemblance to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. This was used by British intelligence as part of a deception campaign during World War II. ==Life== Clifton James was born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, the youngest son of notable Australian public servant John Charles Horsey James and his wife Rebecca Catherine Clifton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James, John Charles Horsey )〕 After serving in the Royal Fusiliers during World War I, and seeing action at the Battle of the Somme, he took up acting, "starting at 15 shillings weekly with Fred Karno, who put Chaplin on the road to fame." At the outbreak of World War II he volunteered his services to the British Army as an entertainer. Instead of being assigned to ENSA as he had hoped, on 11 July 1940 James was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Pay Corps and eventually posted to Leicester. Here, his acting seemed to be limited to his membership of the Pay Corps Drama and Variety Group. In 1944 his resemblance to Montgomery was spotted, and he was employed to pretend to be the general as part of a campaign designed to deceive the Germans in the lead up to D-Day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. E. Clifton James」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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