SIS Arnold-Baker, Charles

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Arnold-Baker ​

• FORENAME

Charles ​

• UNIT

SIS ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

King Haakon VII Medal of Freedom (Norway) ​

• PLACE

Norway 1945 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 25.6.1918 Berlin,Germany (as Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal)​

son of Professor Baron Albrecht Werner and Alice Wilhelmine (nee Hainsworth) von Blumenthal​

educated Winchester College​

graduated Magdalen College,Oxford 1940 (B.A.)​

British National just pre-war​

changed name by Deed poll​

Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1940 (Pte-L/Cpl)​

commissioned 25.2.1941​

70 Bn Buffs (Lt)​

9 Bn Buffs 4.8.1943​

SIS 14.12.1943​

codename Anderton​

Belgium (Brussels Office0 + Norway​

his brother Richard (originally Werner Gaunt von Blumenthal) also served in SIS​

barrister 1948​

also academic and historian postwar​

awarded O.B.E. 1966​

married Edith May Woods 2.1.1943 (2 children)​

died 6.6.2009 St Thomas' Hospital,London​

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