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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 59211" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Dismore</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leonard Henry (Dizzy)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>78541</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre avec palm (Fr) Medal of Freedom (US)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WW2</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 4 Bn Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.11.1906 West Ealing,Middlesex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Ealing,Middlesex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Albert John Victor and Emily Emma (nee Coffin) Dismore</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>news editor,Kentish Gazette Group,Canterbury 1932-39</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 4 Bn Buffs 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Second Lieutenant 25.8.1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>BEF,France</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigade Intelligence Officer,25 Infantry Brigade February 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>M.O.3,War Office (Captain GSO3) 3.8.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>M.O.9 and M.O.1 (S.P.),War Office (Liaison Officer to SOE D/Army) (Major GSO2) 4.3.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE 5.3.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>W Section SOE October 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2IC to Colonel Wingate,Political and Economic Research Office (as W.39),West Africa 17.12.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Op.Postmaster,West Africa 14.1.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Head of Angola Section SOE June 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>L Section (World Intelligence) SOE (Senior Staff Course,STS 3,England) 17.4.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>AK Section SOE 17.5.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>L Section SOE 31.7.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RF Section SOE (2IC) 26.8.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel November 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>OC SPU 24,Chantilly,France October 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>AD/E Section SOE 15.11.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RF Section SOE (for disbandment) March 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12 Holding Bn June 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Foreign Office (Economic Warfare Department) 29.8.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded O.B.E. 1953 for diplomatic service</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>H.M. Consul,Macao 1954</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Winifred I. Forwood September 1934 Canterbury,Kent</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 21.6.1956 Canterbury,Kent</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-dismore.15834/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15834-151cd92000f42bad6c275e61b6aafb35.jpg?1591399533" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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