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The Shetland 'Bus'
By Stephen Wynn
Behind Enemy Lines with the SOE
by Major Ernest Barker BEM
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 30485" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Crawshay </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>William Robert </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Jedburgh Team Hugh </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">86548</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order,Croix de Guerre with Palms (France) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Welch Fusiliers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.5.1920</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>brought up Oxfordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Eton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated University College,Aberystwyth 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers 1939-40</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 Bn King's African Rifles 1940-42</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20th British Military Mission 1942-43</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>codename Crown</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Welch Fusiliers 1945 (Mention in Despatches)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Chevalier,Legion d'Honneur (France) 1956</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16th (Welsh) Parachute Bn (TA) 1947-56</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 Bn Welch Regiment 1960</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Knighted 1972</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deputy Lieutenant Glamorganshire and Gwent</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vice-Lieutenant of Gwent</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Knight of St John</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Elizabeth 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 25.1.1997</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-crawshay.4932/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/4/4932-af43aba3666665f4f7005114d0e79039.jpg?1591384168" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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