Albert Eric Maschwitz
born 10.6.1901 Edgbaston,Birmingham
educated Arden House Preparatory School,Henly-in-Arden
educated Repton School
educated Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge
assistant stage manager,His Majesty's Theatre,London
stage actor and lyricist
wrote A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and These Foolish Things (music by Jack Strachey) among other songs
joined BBC 1926
awarded O.B.E. 1936
postal censor,Liverpool August 1939
SIS D Section (sabotage) November 1939
resistance organization,Beverley,Yorkshire
Army Welfare,London
commissioned 27.5.1940 2Lt (133734) General List
SOE (Training Section) (explosives and demolition) May 1940
British Security Coordination (BSC) 1940 (SOE,attached)
supervised radio programs for the troops,London 1942
Political Warfare Executive (PWE)
No 1 Field Broadcasting Unit (chief broadcasting officer,21st Army Group) (LtColonel)
Head of Light Entertainment,BBC 1958
autobiography No Chip on My Shoulder (1957)
married Hermione Gingold 1926 (divorced 1945)
died 27.10.1969
