SOE Peterson, Alexander Duncan Campbell

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Peterson​

• FORENAME

Alexander Duncan Campbell​

• UNIT

Head of SOE Propaganda Branch (D/Q 9 and B/B 210)​

• RANK

T/Lieutenant Colonel​

• NUMBER

191017​

• AWARD

Officer of the Order of the British Empire​

• PLACE

Far East 1942-44​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit General List​

born 13.9.1908 Edinburgh​

son of John Carlos Kennedy and Flora Peterson​

educated Radley College​

educated Balliol College,Oxford​

teacher,Shrewsbury School 1932​

Ministry of Information 1939​

commissioned 1.6.1941 as 2Lt General List​

SOE Propaganda Branch ​

arrived in India 15.4.1942​

Force 136 (Head of Rumour and Progaganda Section)​

Rumour Network​

Deputy Director of Psychological Warfare,South-East Asia Command 1945​

headmaster,Adams' Grammar School​

Director General,Information Services in Malaya 1952-54​

headmaster,Dover College,Kent​

Head of Department of Educational Studies,Oxford University 1958-73​

Director-General,International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) 1968-77​

Chairman of Army Education Board for many years​

retired 1977​

resided Folkingham,Lancashire in 1976​

married Corinna May Cochrane 8.8.1946 (3 children Arthur,Henry and Cassandra)​

died 17.10.1988​

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