- SURNAME
Hallowes
- FORENAME
Geoffrey MacLeod
- UNIT
SOE Jedburgh Team Jeremy
- RANK
T/Captain
- NUMBER
132514
- AWARD
Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre avec Bronze Palmes (France)
- PLACE
France 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders,attached Royal Berkshire Regiment
born 15.4.1918 Kensington,London
only son of Edward Price and Aileen (nee MacLeod) Hallowes
educated Aldro Preparatory School,Eastbourne
educated Lyceum Alpinum,Zuoz,Switzerland
educated Jesus College,Cambridge (no degree)
2 Bn Gordon Highlanders 25.5.1940 (2Lt)
Lieutenant 25.11.1941
attached Royal Berkshire Regiment 1942
Staff Captain (A) Bombay Base Sub-Area 15.10.1942 - 1.5.1943
SOE Force 133 May 1943
T/Captain 11.4.1944
Jedburgh Team Jeremy 1944
codename Aimable
SOE Special Planning Unit 22 September 1944-1945
award Mention in Despatches 1945
Lieutenant and Honorary Captain R.A.R.O. 1.1.1949
postwar joined Twiss,Browning and Hallowes,Wine Merchants (Director 1949)
retired 1983
married Odette Churchill (formerly Sansom nee Brailly) 6.1.1956
wife served with SOE F Section (George Cross)
died 25.9.2006
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