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Guardsman and Commando: The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery DCM
By David Feebery
Willie Apiata VC: the Reluctant Hero
By Paul Little
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 28956" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Newby </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>George Eric </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>No 1 SBS </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mediterranean 1941 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 6.12.1919 London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated St Paul's School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>apprentice seaman in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted London Scottish 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined SBS 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW August 1942 Sicily</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>liberated 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Wanda 1946 in Florence,Italy (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "Love and War in the Apennines" (1971)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "A Traveller's Life" (1982)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>travel writer postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1975</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award C.B.E. 1994</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 20.10.2006</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-e-newby.2897/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2897-67909813062f3f36199cc0b370b39249.jpg?1591383615" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-e-newby.1140/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1140-056c7ea5ed69e96a9d3a6858cd6b0161.jpg?1591383134" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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