- SURNAME
Dansey
- FORENAME
Claude Edward Marjoribanks
- UNIT
SIS (MI6)
- RANK
Civilian
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George,etc
- PLACE
1943
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 10.9.1876 Cromwell Place,South Kensington,London
son of Captain Edward Mashiter (Life Guards) and the Hon.Eleanore (nee Gifford) Dansey
his mother was daughter of the 2nd Lord Gifford
educated Wellington College 1891
educated English College,Bruges,Belgium
British South African Police 1895 (Trooper,Matabeleland Regiment)
Militia Commission,Lancashire Fusiliers 1898
British North Borneo Company Police Force (Sub Commandant) 1899-1900
6 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers (Regular) (Lt) 1900
South African Light Horse 1900
Army General Staff (Field Intelligence Department) 1900-04
Political Officer,British Somaliland Protectorate 1904-09
Secret Service Bureau + MI5 pre and during WW1 (until July 1916) (New York State for 3 years)
MI1(C) 1917-19 (Lt Colonel) (Netherlands and Switzerland)
award C.M.G. 1918
private businessman 1920s
MI6 Italy (Passport Control Officer,Rome) 1929-36
Head of Z Section SIS 1936 ("Z-1") (London)
Berne,Switzerland September 1939
Deputy Chief of MI6 (SIS) November 1939
i/c all active espionage until 1945 (retired)
foreign awards
Knight Chevalier de l'Ordere Leopold (Belgium)
Commander de la Legion d'Honneur (France)
Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA)
married Mrs Pauline Monroe (nee Cory) Ulman 1915 (divorced)
married Mrs Frances Gurney (nee Wilson) Rylander 1945
no children but stepdaughter from each marriage
died 11.6.1947 Bath,Somerset
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