Richard Gough

Cardiff-born Richard Gough served on active service with the Gurkha Brigade in Malaya in the 1950s. Later, he volunteered for the Parachute Regiment, followed by a short stint with the Intelligence Corps. After a brief spell in politics, he created a marketing force for the UK Department for National Savings and later became the head of human resources. His wife, Rona, and he raised £8 million with their friends for breast cancer research undertaken by Cardiff University. Taking early retirement in 1985, he and Rona researched and wrote four books focused on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Far East.
With the support of Welsh media in London, they voluntarily developed the Wales and London Placement Scheme. This brought more than one thousand Welsh A-level pre-university students to London on a Career Development Scheme with major trading houses, theatre, and media.
Richard and Rona began researching the Tony Poe biography in 2000. Rona died of dementia in 2021.