JEDBURGH Knox, Bernard Macgregor Walker (Bernie)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Knox ​

• FORENAME

Bernard Macgregor Walker (Bernie) ​

• UNIT

OSS Jedburgh Team Giles ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster,Croix de Guerre with gold star (France) ​

• PLACE

France 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 24.11.1914 Bradford,Yorkshire,England​

grew up London​

graduated St John's College,Cambridge 1936 (B.A.)​

French Bn,XI International Brigade (Spanish Civil War)​

WIA 1936 Madrid sector​

emigrated t U.S.A.​

US Army 1942​

anti-aircraft battery​

OSS 1943​

instructor,Jedburgh training school ME 65​

Jedburgh Team Giles​

codename Kentucky​

OSS Italy 1945​

graduated Harvard University (M.A.)​

graduated Yale University (Ph.D.)​

Professor,Yale University until 1961​

Director,Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies,Washington,D.C. 1962-85​

classicist and author​

married Bianca Van Orden 1939 (Betty Baur in one source) (died 2006) (1 son Macgregor)​

died 22.7.2010 Bethesda,Maryland ​

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