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Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of Sog
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 32494" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ratcliff </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leonard Fitch (Len) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>161 Squadron (RAFVR) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader + Wing Commander </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>87022 </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order,bar to Distinguished Flying Cross,Croix de Guerre (Fr) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1943 (bar DFC) 1944 (DSO) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.7.1919 Maldon,Essex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Felsted School,Dunmow,Essex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RAFVR June 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>49 Squadron 16.7.1941 (Flying Officer - FLt) (DFC 1942)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24 OTU (bombing instructor) (A.F.C.)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>161 Squadron 24.6.1943 (SLdr)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Air Ministry (Directorate of Intelligence)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>161 Squadron (WCdr)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>left RAF December 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>businessman postwar (agricultural industry)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>High Sheriff of Essex 1988</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Betty Stewart 26.9.1939 (died 1987) (4 children Rupert,Clive,Robin and Tess)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Dorothy Radford 1989</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 1.4.2016 Essex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-ratcliff.27570/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/27/27570-fa0ba46292e2e8fec64f334efe3f71e5.jpg?1591433814" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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