No Mean Soldier
By Peter McAleese
Not For The Glory
By Mick Fellows MBE DSC BEM
Bickham Sweet-Escott
John Robertson

Bickham Sweet-Escott

Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet-Escott
born 6.6.1907 Newport,Monmouthshire
son of Aldred Bickham and Mary Amy (nee Cowan) Sweet-Escott
educated Choir School.Llandaff Cathedral
educated Winchester College 1921-24
employed by J.S. Fry and Sons,Bristol 1924-27
attended London University
graduated Balliol College,Oxford 1930
personal assistant to Chairman,Courthaulds textile company 1938
SIS (Section D) 1939
SOE 1940
Regional Director for Balkans and Middle East 1941
Personal Assistant to Sir Frank Nelson July-December 1941
M (Operations) Directorate
SOE Mission to Washington,D.C. July 1942
Head of RF Section briefly 1943
Adviser,Force 133,Cairo December 1943-December 1944 (Lt Colonel)
Chief of Staff,Force 136,SEAC January-December 1945
postwar banker and businessman
married Doris Katharine Mary Bulstrode 1923 (dissolved 1950)
married Beryl Mary Phelps 1950 (died 1984)
no children
author "Baker Street Irregular" (1965)
died 12.11.1981 Ipswich

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