SIS Aschan, Carl Nils Gunnar Wilhelm

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Aschan
  • FORENAME
Carl Nils Gunnar Wilhelm
  • UNIT
SIS
  • RANK
Flying Officer
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
King Christian X of Denmark Liberty Medal
  • PLACE
WW2 service
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit R.A.F.V.R. (Engineering Branch)
born 6.5.1906 Orebro,Sweden
son of Nils and Baroness Elsa Djurklov Aschan
educated Pembroke College,Cambridge
employed by German and British aircraft companies
British citizen 1929
Local Director of Wigglesworth and Company,Hamburg until 1939
R.A.F.V.R. 1939 (Pilot Officer)
RAF School of Engineering,Henlow
SIS April 1940
Assistant Air Attache,British Embassy,Stockholm until November 1940
Air Ministry,London
seconded to Combined Operations Staff
married Marit Victoria Guinness 21.7.1937 (divorced 1963) (2 children)
married Doreen Wentworth Fitzwilliam (died 1976)
died 27.7.2008 age 102
 
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