- SURNAME
Woods
- FORENAME
Christopher Matthew
- UNIT
SIS (Controller of Soviet Bloc)
- RANK
Civilian
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
- PLACE
1979
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 26.5.1923 Dulwich,London
son of Matthew and Eva Woods
educated Bradfield College
graduated Trinity College,Cambridge (postwar)
enlisted summer 1942 K.R.R.C.
commissioned 22.5.1943 King's Royal Rifle Corps (2Lt)
seconded to 5 Bn Royal West Kent Regiment autumn 1943
1 Special Force SOE July 1944 - 1945 (Lt - Cap)
Mission Ruina
codename Columbo
awarded M.C.
SOE Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1945
Political Warfare Division,Java and Sumatra Jult 1945 - December 1946
retired from Army January 1947
SIS (MI6) 1948
Tehran 1950-52
Ismailia 1953
Nicosia
Head of Station,Milan 1957
Head Office,London 1958
Head of Station,Rome 1962
Controller,Soviet Bloc 1965
awarded C.M.G. 1979
retired 1988 to Suffolk
married Gillian Sara Rudd 1954 (died 1985) (4 sons Mark,Rupert,Adam and Caspian,1 daughter Emma)
married Patricia Temple Muir 1992
died 10.1.2016 Suffolk
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