- SURNAME
Whinney
- FORENAME
Patrick
- UNIT
SIS (O.C. African Coastal Flotilla (ACF))
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Cross,Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
Mediterranean 1943-44
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
born 5.1.1912 Bolton,Lancashire
educated Dartmouth Naval College
HMS Nelson (Midshipman)
left R.N. as Lt
worked in trading house in Singapore
R.N.V.R. 1939
Assistant Naval Attache,Paris
Directorate of Operations (Irregular)
HMS Fidelity
O.C. African Coastal Flotilla (ACF) 1943-44
Diplomatic Service postwar
retired to Guernsey
married Maria (died 1995) (3 daughters)
author "Corsican Command : A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Clandestine Operations in the Western Mediterranean 1943-44" 1989
died 15.11.2004
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