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Return of the Dambusters: What 617 Squadron Did Next
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 30207" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gubbins </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colin McVean </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE (Chairman of the Organisation and Chairman of the Council (CD)) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brigadier + Major General </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">14618</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>K.C.M.G.,C.M.G.,etc </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Europe </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Artillery and General Staff</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 2.7.1896 Shiba,Tokyo,Japan</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of John Harington and Helen Brodie (nee McVean) Gubbins</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Normanton Grammar School,Yorkshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Cheltenham College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Military Academy,Woolwich</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Field Artillery 1914-18 (2Lt - A/Major)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>ADC to GOC Archangel Expeditionary Force,North Russia 1917-19</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.C. 1916</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Order of St Stanislav,3rd Class (Russia) 1919</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Signals Intelligence,GHQ India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Staff College,Quetta 1928</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>GSO2,Russian Section,War Office 1931</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brevet Major 1935</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MT 1 (Military Training Directorate),War Office</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Member,International Commission to Sudetenland October 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Section D SIS (renamed same year MI(R) Military Intelligence (Research))1939-40 (Brevet Lt Colonel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief of Staff,Military Mission to Poland August 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Head of Military Mission to Czech and Polish Forces under French Command October 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>in charge of raising of Independent Companies March 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE November 1940 - January 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Executive Head of SOE September 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A/Brigadier November 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Major General 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>managing director of a firm of carpet and textile manufacturers postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deputy Lieutenant,Islands Area of the Western Isles 1976</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Norah Creina Somerville (nee Warren) Gubbins 1919 (dissolved 1944) (2 sons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son John Michael McVean Gubbins killed with SOE - see Roll of Honour</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Anna Elise ("Tulla") (nee Jensen) Gubbins (formerly Tradin) 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2nd wife was widow of Rolf Torbjorn Tradin,Lt Royal Norwegian Air Force - KIA over Caen 30.5.1943 with 612 Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards WW2 as follows</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>K.C.M.G. 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.M.G. 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>D.S.O. 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Croix de Vaillance (Poland) 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Legion dHonneur,Officier (France) 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Grand Officier,Order of Leopold (Belgium)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Croix de Guerre (Belgium)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Order of the Dannebrog,First Class (Denmark)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Order of St Olaf (Norway)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Grand Officer,Order of Orange Nassau (Holland)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Grand Officer,Polonia Resituta (Poland)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander,Legion of Merit (USA)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander,Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 11.2.1976 Stornoway,Hebrides</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>address at time Obbe,Isle of Harris</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Scarista Cemetery,Isle of Harris</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-gubbins.31782/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/31/31782-d36559fcca2b96da705c822e0339681c.jpg?1591435980" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-gubbins.206/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/0/206-aab28f0de7ec3e4b33dcaefc2b61b5d4.jpg?1591382968" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-gubbins.29571/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29571-c986ceb3e8486f47c429caa3c2c9f740.jpg?1591434472" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-gubbins.17743/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/17/17743-1ea33d616df00f25cebcd26e268260fe.jpg?1591400076" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-gubbins.5162/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/5/5162-31f2c1c8ff7ed6584c0427c3bc27a132.jpg?1591384233" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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