SOE Fielding, George Rudolf Hanbury

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Fielding ​

• FORENAME

George Rudolf Hanbury ​

• UNIT

1 Special Force SOE ​

• RANK

Captain (T/Major) ​

• NUMBER

87208 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order ​

• PLACE

Austria 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 3rd King's Own Hussars​

born 3.7.1915​

father was killed at Gallipoli​

grew up in Switzerland​

educated Shrewsbury and Freiburg University​

fur trapper in Canada​

assistant manager,an estancia in Argentina​

cattle buyer in Chicago in civilian life​

commissioned 1940/41​

Mention in Despatches for North Africa 1942​

SOE 1943-45​

farmer in Ireland postwar​

later moved to Pays d'Enhaut,Switzerland​

married Georgina Pope 1940​

died 23.1.2005​

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George Rudolf Hanbury Fielding

Correction needed for date of death?