- SURNAME
Dismore
- FORENAME
Leonard Henry (Dizzy)
- UNIT
SOE
- RANK
Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
78541
- AWARD
Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre avec palm (Fr) Medal of Freedom (US)
- PLACE
WW2
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 4 Bn Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
born 17.11.1906 West Ealing,Middlesex
resided Ealing,Middlesex
son of Albert John Victor and Emily Emma (nee Coffin) Dismore
news editor,Kentish Gazette Group,Canterbury 1932-39
enlisted 4 Bn Buffs 1938
Second Lieutenant 25.8.1939
BEF,France
Brigade Intelligence Officer,25 Infantry Brigade February 1940
M.O.3,War Office (Captain GSO3) 3.8.1940
M.O.9 and M.O.1 (S.P.),War Office (Liaison Officer to SOE D/Army) (Major GSO2) 4.3.1941
SOE 5.3.1941
W Section SOE October 1941
2IC to Colonel Wingate,Political and Economic Research Office (as W.39),West Africa 17.12.1941
Op.Postmaster,West Africa 14.1.1942
Head of Angola Section SOE June 1942
L Section (World Intelligence) SOE (Senior Staff Course,STS 3,England) 17.4.1943
AK Section SOE 17.5.1943
L Section SOE 31.7.1943
RF Section SOE (2IC) 26.8.1943
Lieutenant Colonel November 1943
OC SPU 24,Chantilly,France October 1944
AD/E Section SOE 15.11.1944
RF Section SOE (for disbandment) March 1945
12 Holding Bn June 1945
Foreign Office (Economic Warfare Department) 29.8.1945
Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel 1950
awarded O.B.E. 1953 for diplomatic service
H.M. Consul,Macao 1954
married Winifred I. Forwood September 1934 Canterbury,Kent
died 21.6.1956 Canterbury,Kent
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