- SURNAME
Strangeways
- FORENAME
David Inderwick
- UNIT
"A" Force + "R" Force
- RANK
Major
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Officer of the British Empire,Legion of Merit (US)
- PLACE
North Africa 1943 (DSO) N.W. Europe 1944-45 (OBE,LofM)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 26.2.1912
son of Dr T.S.P. Strangeways
educated Cambridge County High School
graduated Trinity Hall,Cambridge 1932
commissioned 1 Bn Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) 1933
Mention in Despatches (Dunkirk 1940)
O.C. "A" Force tactical HQ,Western Desert
award D.S.O.
O.C. "R" Force 1944-45
awards O.B.E.,Legion of Merit (US)
Political Adviser to the Allied Commissioners,Westphalia and the Rhine 1945-46
training appointments,UK
2 Bn Green Howards
British Military Mission in Greece
1 Bn East Yorkshire Regiment (C.O.) 1952
Mention in Despatches (Malaya)
promoted Colonel
O.C. Task Force,Christmas Island atomic tests
retired 1957
studied Wells Theological College
appointed curate of Lee-on-Solent 1958
vicar of Symondsbury 1960-63
vicar of Bradford-on-Avon (8 years)
chaplain of British Embassy,Stockholm
chancellor and senior canon,St Paul's Anglican Cathedral,Malta
retired from Malta 1981
resided Suffolk
married Eleanor Croggan 1939 (3 children)
died 1.8.1998
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