- SURNAME
Fielding
- FORENAME
Alexander Wallace (Xan)
- UNIT
SOE Crete
- RANK
Captain + T/Major
- NUMBER
159770
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Crete 1943 (DSO) London Gazette 30.8.1945 (MiD)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Intelligence Corps
born 26.11.1918 Ootacamund,India
son of Percival Wallace Fielding
SOE Crete 1943
codename Aleko
F Section SOE 1944 (Major)
Jockey Network
codename Cathedrale
arrested 11.8.1944 France
released same month (bribery by Christine Granville)
Force 136 SOE 1945 (Major)
writer and translator postwar
married Hon.Daphne Winifred Louise Vivian 1953 (dissolved 1978) (died 1997)
she was the daughter of 4th Lord Vivian and former wife of 6th Marquess of Bath
married "Magouche",widow of the Armenian artist Arshile Gorky
author of war memoirs "Hide and Seek" (1954)
died 19.8.1991 Paris,France
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