SIS Ford, Richard Brinsley

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Ford ​

• FORENAME

Richard Brinsley ​

• UNIT

MI9 ​

• RANK

Captain + Major ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Medaille dArgent de la Reconnaissance Francaise (Fr),Order of Leopold II (Bel),Bronze Star (US) ​

• PLACE

France and Belgium 1944-45 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 10.6.1908​

son of Captain Richard and Rosamund (nee Ramsden) Ford​

educated Eton​

educated Trinity College,Oxford​

Territorial Army 1939​

an anti-aircraft searchlight unit (Troop Sergeant Major)​

MI9​

scholar and art connoisseur postwar​

award C.B.E. 1978​

knighted 1984​

married Joanna Vyvyan 1937 (3 children)​

died May 1999 ​

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