John Nevile Wake Gwynne
born 20.6.1905 Broxbourn,Hertfordshire
son of Neville Gwyn and Isabel (nee Wake) Gwynne
educated Eton College
graduated Christchurch College,Oxford (BA) (OTC)
solicitor,London
Sussex Yeomanry prewar
commissioned 11.3.1927 2Lt 98th (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Field Brigade,Royal Artillery (TA)
Lieutenant 11.3.1930
Lieutenant (Regular) 17.6.1933
53 Anti-Tank Regiment,RA (210 Battery) (A/Captain) 17.12.1939
T/Captain 17.3.1940
53 Anti-Tank Regiment,RA (209 Battery) (A/Captain) June 1940
Auxiliary Units (Intelligence Officer,Sussex) (A/Captain) 1940-41
SOE M Section (M/Ops) 10.10.1941
Small Scale Raiding Force (A/Major) 1.4.1942
SOE Op.Brandon,North Africa 3.2.1943
Captain (T/Major) 9.8.1943
SOE British Liaison Officer to Greek Resistance 9.8.1943
invalided home with cerebral meningitis November 1943
left SOE 3.3.1944
Political Intelligence Department,Foreign Office March 1944
Control Commission of Germany (OC Religious Affairs) 1945
retired from T.A.R.O. 11.4.1956 as H/Major
Executive Director of Outward Bound Trust
married Patricia Louisa Morrison-Bell 7.1.1941 (2 children) (divorced 1956)
died 19.2.1981 Fairford,Quenington,Gloucestershire
