- SURNAME
Ellis
- FORENAME
Charles Howard (Dick)
- UNIT
SIS
- RANK
Colonel
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Commander of the order of the British Empire,Legion of Merit (Officer) (US)
- PLACE
1946
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 13.2.1895 Annandale,Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
son of William Edward and Lillian Mary (nee Hobday) Ellis
educated Stott and Hoare's Business College,Melbourne
oboeist with Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society
moved to Britain June 1914
enlisted 26.7.1915 in 100 Provisional Bn,T.F.
WIA 3 times (Corporal)
5 Bn Middlesex Regiment (2Lt) September 1917
awards O.B.E.,Mention in Despatches 1919
studied St Edmund Hall,Oxford
Captain,T.A.Reserve (Intelligence) 1922-23
joined SIS 1920s
British Security Co-ordination (BSC) office,New York (Major) 1939
Assistant Director BSC,Washington,D.C. 1940-41 (LtCol)
Middle East 1942
BSC again 1942 (Colonel)
London August 1944-45
Singapore 1946-53
retired 1953 (award C.M.G.)
married Elizabeth (Lilia) Zelensky 12.4.1923
married Barbara Mary Burgess Smith 19.4.1933 (1 daughter) (divorced)
married Alexandra Wood (nee Surtees) 24.8.1954 (died 1970)
married Joyce Hatten (nee Steeples) 25.1.1973
died 5.7.1975
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