- SURNAME
Heywood
- FORENAME
Thomas George Gordon
- UNIT
former SOE
- RANK
Major General
- NUMBER
12577
- DATE OF DEATH
27th August 1943
- AGE
56
- GRAVESITE
Delhi War Cemetery,India 7.A.15
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Artillery And General Staff
born 27.12.1886 Caen,France
son of Courtney and Marie Madelaine Fernande Jane Reymond (nee Robellaz) Heywood
husband of Joan Morgan (nee Bromley-Davenport) Heywood,Barnes,Surrey (born 1907)
former husband of Louise Orr Sutherland (1885-1962) (married 1914)
Royal Artillery 1905
served WW1 1914-19 (France,Gallipoli and Balkans)
awards WWI OBE,Mention in Despatches(twice),Legion dHonneur(Fr),Order of the Redeemer(Greece),Order of the White Eagle(Serbia),Military Cross(Greece),Grand
Officer of the Royal Order of George I(Greece)
Freeman of Missolonghi,Greece
Army representative,British Military Mission to Russia August 1939
Officer in Charge Military Mission to Holland (SOE) 1940
Officer in Charge Military Mission to Greece (SOE) 1940-41
awarded CB 1940
Commander Presidency and Assam District,India 1941-42
GOC 26th Indian Division 1942-43
Retired 1943 and took up post under Supply Department,New Delhi,India
died India
DATE OF DEATH:
27-Aug-1943FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22913912/thomas-george_gordon-heywood
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