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Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Graf (Count) Manfred Maria Edmund Ralph Beckett
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 32251" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Czernin von und zu Chudenitz </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Graf (Count) Manfred Maria Edmund Ralph Beckett </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Italy </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>37148 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order,Military Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Italy 1944 (MC) Italy 1945 (DSO)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 18.1.1913 Berlin,Germany</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Graf (Count) Otto Rudolf and the hon.Lucy Catherine (nee Beckett) Czernin,etc</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Austrian,mother English, daughter of 2nd Baron Grimthorpe</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Oundle School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>worked briefly for engineering firm</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>to Southern Rhodesia to work on a tobacco plantation September 1931</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>returned to UK April 1935</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Air Force 1935</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>57 and 83 Squadrons</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.A.F. Reserve August 1937</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>recalled to active service 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12 Group Pool (Pilot Officer)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>504,213,85,17 Squadrons 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award D.F.C. (air ace with 13 and 5 shared victories)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17 Squadron,52 OTU,65 and 222 Squadrons 1941 (S/Ldr Dec.1941)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>41 and 146 Squadrons,Staff Officer 224 Group 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ 28 Group and Air Ministry Unit,London 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>S.O.E. September 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>alias Major Beckett</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Italy 1944-45</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ Fighter Command 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>left R.A.F. 2.10.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Maud Sarah Hamilton 4.11.1939 (2 children) (divorced 1947)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>biography "</em><a href="https://amzn.to/30tb7a0" target="_blank"><em>Double Mission</em></a><em>" (Norman Franks) 1976</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 6.10.1962 London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/m-czernin.15430/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15430-282eb7aaa3d6490ce83d1ad678dc9922.jpg?1591399428" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/m-czernin.4817/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/4/4817-dc206e54ca9f1b2ef6adad4a4a869732.jpg?1591384133" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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