Lewis Evelyn Gielgud
born 11.6.1894 South Kensington,London
son of Frank Henry and Kate (nee Terry-Lewis) Gielgud
educated Eton College
Officer Training Corps
commissioned "lt 17.9.1916
6 Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry
WIA July 1915 France
War Office 1916-17
British Military Mission,Paris 1917-19 T/Lt (T/Captain) General List
M.B.E. 1919
Officer of the Order of the Crown of Roumania with swords 1919
Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur (France) 1920
Officer of the Order of the Eagle 5th Class (Kings of Serbs,Croats and Slovenes) 1922
commissioned Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps (Lieutenant 125993) 23.1.1940
War Office
Intelligence Corps
Chief Recruiting Officer,F Section SOE 1941-42 (Major)
Lieutenant Colonel 1942
Chief Recruiting Officer,SOE London 1942-44
released from Army 1944
Red Cross (Sub-Commissioner,Paris) 1945
Co-ordinating Officer,Allied Reparation Agency,Brussels 1946-49
Counsellor of OEEC 1949-51
senior official,UNESCO 1951
writer of novels,plays and travel book
married Elise Herral 1919 (b.1888 France)
married Zita Gordon 1937 (1911-2006) (divorced 1951) (1 daughter Maina)
died 25.2.1953 Paris,France
