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Special Forces - Roll Of Honour » Archive » ARMY CDOS » Awards » Stuart Whitemore Chant
Surname Chant
Forename Stuart Whitemore
Unit 5 Commando
Rank Lieutenant
Number 105159
Award Military Cross
Place St Nazaire 1942
Additional information parent unit Gordon Highlanders
born 11.3.1917
educated Mill Hill School
London Stock Exchange
Artists Rifles (Private)
commissioned Gordon Highlanders October 1939
Commandos October 1940
WIA and POW March 1942 St Nazaire
repatriated 1943
discharged 1945
joined Rank Organisation 1945
recalled to Army as liaison officer,SHAPE,Paris (awarded O.B.E. 1952)
retired 1955 as Lieutenant Colonel
director of public relations C.T. Bowring
author "St Nazaire Commando" (1985)
married Ann Forbes-Sempill 1948 (Baroness of Sempill 1965) (3 children)
assumed surname of Chant-Sempill 1965
died 27.7.1991
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