SIS Neave, Airey Middleton Sheffield

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Neave ​

• FORENAME

Airey Middleton Sheffield ​

• UNIT

MI9 ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

66518 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Member of the Order of the British Empire,Croix de Guerre (France),Bronze Star (US),Order of Orange Nassau (Neth)​

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• PLACE

1943-45 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Artillery​

born 23.1.1916 London​

son of Sheffield Airey and Dorothy (nee Middleton) Neave​

educated Eton College​

graduated Merton College,Oxford 1938​

a Searchlight Regiment,Royal Artillery (TA) 1939 (2Lt)​

WIA and POW 23.5.1940 Calais​

escaped 5.1.1942​

joined MI9 (codename Saturday)​

called to the Bar,Middle Temple 1943​

Assistant Secretary,International Military Tribunal (LtColonel) 1945​

C.O. Intelligence School No 9 (TA) 1949-51 ​

Conservative Member of Parliament 1953-79​

married Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard 1942 (3 children)​

killed 30.3.1979 by INLA bomb,London​

DSO 15.11.1945​

MBE 30.8.1945 ​

MC 1942​

OBE 1947​

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