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Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 28118" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Peniakoff </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vladimir (Popski) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>PPA HQ (CO) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>159661 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>D.S.O.,M.C.,Croix de Guerre(Belgium) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Italy 1944 (DSO) North Africa 1942 (MC) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit General List (formerly 2 Bn Libyan Arab Force and LRDG)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 30.3.1897 Huy,Belgium</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided 31 Cliveden Place,London SW1 1951 (Tel.Sloane 5844)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Dimitri and Anna (nee Braun) Peniakoff (married 2.3.1983 Odessa,Russia)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>his father was born 4.7.1866 Jekaterioslav,Russia,died 1925 Lausanne,Switzerland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated St John's College,Cambridge (F.R.G.S.)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served with French Army in WW1 (gunner)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 6.10.1910 Cairo</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>engineer in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>sugar manufacturer in Egypt 1924</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned General List (2Lt) 6.10.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Libyan Arab Force October 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>founded unit 23.11.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>wounded on raid to Barce,N.Africa Sep.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>wounded Italy 11.12.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>PPA disbanded 14.9.1945 became Liaison Officer between Russians and British in Vienna as Lieutenant Colonel</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Officier de l'ordre de la Couronne avec Palme (Bel) 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Croix de Guerre 1940 avec Palme 1947 (Bel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "Private Army" 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"No other like him,a man totally without fear"(PPA members)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Josette Ceysens (2 daughters) (dissolved)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Pamela Firth 1948</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 15.5.1951 London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>buried Wixoe Churchyard,Suffolk </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/popski.13/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/0/13-0706f398b6e216f9503604879bc8b6ac.jpg?1591382930" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/popski.797/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/0/797-d0402f9da89e8b92fe0f46ad72d89cc1.jpg?1591383067" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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