Aubrey Gordon Denton-Thompson
born 6.6.1920 Lubumbashi,Belgian Congo
educated Malvern College
enlisted 1939 Royal Artillery
73 Anti-Tank Regiment
121 or 125 OCTU
commissioned Royal Artillery (2Lt 176665) 8.3.1941
WIA 1942 Ruweisat Ridge,North Africa
award M.C. (London Gazette 15.10.1942)
SOE Force 133 1943 (Lt)
served in Turkey and Greece
lost an arm in an accident in Greece - invalided out
Colonial Service (Basutoland and Tanganyika)
Colonial Secretary,Falkland Islands 1955-60 (award O.B.E.)
UN Development Programme (Food and Agriculture Organisation)
retired 1979 to near Lymington,Hampshire
married Ruth Cecily Isaac 1944 (died) (3 children)
married Barbara Mary Wells 1961 (died)
died 8.11.2012
