- SURNAME
Maingard
- FORENAME
Rene Amedee Louis Pierre
- UNIT
F Section SOE
- RANK
T/Major
- NUMBER
241290
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Croix de Guerre avec Palms (France)
- PLACE
France 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit General List
born 21.10.1918 Mont-Roches,Mauritius
full surname Maingard de la Ville-es-Offrans
son of Louis Joseph Rene and Madame Maingard de la Ville-es-Offrans
educated College St Joseph,Mauritius
educated Royal College,Curepipe,Mauritius (left 1938)
resided London since summer 1938 (48 Lexham Gardens,Earl's Court)
articled to Messrs Falk,Keeping and Co,London (accountant) 15.2.1939
2 Bn Queen Victoria's Rifles (TA) 29.10.1939 (Rifleman 6847249)
8 Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps March 1941 (Lance Corporal)
served KRRC as Amedee Hugnin
SOE 30.5.1942 (as P/241290 L/Cpl R.A.L.P.Maingard)
Second Lieutenant,General List 18.7.1942
Lieutenant (A/Captain) January 1943
T/Captain March 1943
codename Dede
Stationer Circuit (organiser)
demobilised 20.12.1945
postwar with Rogers and Co (shipping) (Aviation Dept) (shareholder 1948)
awarded C.B.E. 1969
award Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur 1972 (Officer 1981)
married Jacqueline Raffray 8.10.1949 Westminster Cathedral,London
died 12.1.1981 Lamivoie,Black River,Mauritius
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