- SURNAME
Blathwayt
- FORENAME
Christopher George Wynter
- UNIT
S.O.E. Jedburgh Team Gilbert + Team Mouse
- RANK
T/Captain + T/Major
- NUMBER
78393
- AWARD
Military Cross,Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
France 1944 (MC,CdG) Burma 1945 (MiD)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit King's Royal Rifle Corps
born 8.1.1912
son of Major Henry Wynter Blathwayt (1887-1917) (KIA)
educated Eton College
educated Corpus Christi,Oxford
qualified Chartered Accountant,London 1938
inherited family estates at Dyrham and Porlock 1936
commissioned K.R.R.C. (TA) 16.11.1938 (2Lt)
Jedburgh Team Gilbert 1944
codename Surrey
Force 136 SOE 1944-45 (Burma,Thailand and Indo-China)
liquidator of goods postwar
retired from T.A. Reserve April 1962 (Captain)
married Gillian Butcher 1943 (3 sons)
died 3.4.1990 Bath,Somerset
buried Dyrham,Gloucestershire
born 8.1.1912
son of Major Henry Wynter Blathwayt (1887-1917) (KIA)
educated Eton College
educated Corpus Christi,Oxford
qualified Chartered Accountant,London 1938
inherited family estates at Dyrham and Porlock 1936
commissioned K.R.R.C. (TA) 16.11.1938 (2Lt)
Jedburgh Team Gilbert 1944
codename Surrey
Force 136 SOE 1944-45 (Burma,Thailand and Indo-China)
liquidator of goods postwar
retired from T.A. Reserve April 1962 (Captain)
married Gillian Butcher 1943 (3 sons)
died 3.4.1990 Bath,Somerset
buried Dyrham,Gloucestershire
