John Ashford Renshaw Starr
born 6.8.1908
son of Alfred Demarest and Ethel (nee Renshaw) Starr
brother of George Reginald Starr (SOE Awards)
poster artist,Paris 1939 (married)
enlisted King's Own Scottish Borderers 1940
Field Security Service (France and England)
War Office artist
SOE 1942
parachuted into Valence,Southern France 29.8.1942
returned to France spring 1943
Acrobat Circuit
organiser
codename Bob
arrested 18.7.1943 Dijon
survived Sachsenhausen
night-club owner,Hanley,Staffordshire postwar
subject of book The Starr Affair (Jean Overton Fuller)
died 1996 Switzerland
