- SURNAME
Richards
- FORENAME
Francis Brooks
- UNIT
SOE
- RANK
Lieutenant + Lieutenant Commander
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Cross and bar,Mention in Despatches,etc
- PLACE
North Africa 1942 (DSC) France 1943 (bar DSC) Corsica 1944 (MiD)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
born 18.7.1918
educated Stowe
educated Magdalene College,Cambridge
joined RNVR 1939
HMS Sevra (sunk November 1940) (Mention in Despatches)
SOE 1941
shipment of agents and arms to Brittany,vessel "Mutin" (later operated out of Gibraltar)
Op.Brandon,North Africa 1942 (DSC)
Liaison work with French Resistance,South of France 1943 (bar to DSC)
Head of French Section SOE Algiers 1943
awarded Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre (France) for above
Resistance group,Corsica 1944 (Mention in Despatches)
joined Royal Naval Reserve 1945
British Embassy,Paris 1945-47 (to wind up SOE ops in France)
Foreign Office 1948-1978
CMG 1963
KCMK 1976
married Hazel Williams 1941 (died 2000)
father-in-law LtCol.Stanley Price Williams,Indian Army also served SOE
died 13.9.2002
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