SOE-agent poison phial/capsule

[Thomas Bendixen]

Can anyone tell/show me how these looked? Pics? Documentation?

Any help will be greatly appriciated!

Cheers Thomas Bendixen

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Thomas, I have only seen these via old period film/newsreel, but I have no stills to show. I seem to recall they were capsules and not pills? I think they were refered to as "L" for lethal.

Cheers, Ade.

[Thomas Bendixen]

Hi Ade

Was hoping that you saw this thread "L" for lethal"

Any chance that one could find this film?

Cheers Thomas

Hi Thomas, I have only seen these via old period film/newsreel, but I have no stills to show. I seem to recall they were capsules and not pills? I think they were refered to as "L" for lethal.

Cheers, Ade.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Thomas, we keep intending to set up the PC to the TV so we could rob images such as this, but never seem to get around to it... Too busy here and off doing shows

Lez actually has a photo album which has within it two small dubious black pills in a paper packet; but they could just be laxative pills for all we know!

Cheers, Ade.

[Thomas Bendixen]

Thanks again Ade

Is it to much to ask that you try one on your cat. Could you post pics? Until recently we had an SOE-agent (Jelly), yes WW2, working at the museum and he described the L-Pill/Capsule as being made of glass and then rubberised (black) - as not to heart your mouth when you shewed the glass capsule.

Cheers Thomas

Hi Thomas, we keep intending to set up the PC to the TV so we could rob images such as this, but never seem to get around to it... Too busy here and off doing shows

Lez actually has a photo album which has within it two small dubious black pills in a paper packet; but they could just be laxative pills for all we know!

Cheers, Ade.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Thomas, I was just looking at our neighbors Cat asleep in our garden. If I could have got a photo I would have as he looked dead!


The description you give sounds just like what I have heard too.

Here are the two pills from the photo album. (They are not L Pills, I think, but I have included them here out of interest. We had forgotten about the little slip of paper that they were wrapped in.)

Cheers, Ade.

[Thomas Bendixen]

Reward!!!!

Hi Ade



PLEASE SOMEONE HELPPPPP! NEEED A SUICIDEPILL FOR WORK - NOT MY BOSS - EXHIBITION

REWARD!!!!

Anyone who comes up with a Suicide Pill (SOE-agent WW2) gets a free "grab, touch, photgraph, indulgin all day in "my" museums magazines (Resistancemuseum in Copenhagen 1940-45).

Cheers Thomas