SOE Foster, Gretton Francis

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Foster​

• FORENAME

Gretton Francis​

• UNIT

India Mission SOE​

• RANK

Lieutenant​

• NUMBER

217359​

• AWARD

Military Cross​

• PLACE

Burma 1942 (London Gazette 8.4.1943)​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Suffolk Regiment​

born 26.1.1918 Coggeshall,Essex​

son of M.E. and Mrs Foster,Stuart House,Coggeshall,Essex​

educated Earls Colne Grammar School,Essex​

Suffolk Regiment 1939​

served in France 1940 (Lance Corporal)​

commissioned 21.11.1941​

1st Tribal Legion​

SOE 1942-43 (Lt)​

award M.C. (London Gazette 8.4.1943)​

V Force 1943-45 (Captain - A/Lt Colonel)​

farmer,Londiani,Kenya and Morayshire,Scotland​

moved to Dorset 1970​

employed with Edens (land agents)​

married Evelyn Ann Knaggs 1952 (4 children)​

died 26.7.2012 Sherborne,Dorset​

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