SIS Elwell, Charles John Lister

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Elwell ​

• FORENAME

Charles John Lister ​

• UNIT

MI5 ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

• AWARD

Officer of the Order of the British Empire ​

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• PLACE

1961 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 16.5.1919 Lewes,Sussex​

son of Charles and Emily Geraldine (nee Rogers) Elwell​

educated Haileybury College​

educated St John's College,Oxford​

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve August 1940 (SubLt)​

MGB flotilla,south coast (landing agents in occupied Europe)​

POW March 1942 Holland​

Colditz until end of war​

demobilsed October 1945​

Foreign Office 1945-49 (Tangier and The Hague)​

Security Service (MI5) 1949​

Overseas Branch​

Security Intelligence Far East 1950-55​

Counter-espionage branch,London 1955-65​

security adviser,Ministry of Defence 1965-68​

promoted Assistant secretary 1966​

counter-espionage branch 1968-74​

F Branch (counter-subversion branch) 1974-79​

retired from MI5 1979​

Institute for the Study of Conflict​

retired to soft fruit farming​

married Ann Catherine Glass (also MI5) 24.6.1950 (1922-1996) (2 sons,2 daughters)​

died 11.1.2008 Shaftesbury,Dorset​

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