SIS Knox, Alfred Dillwyn (Dilly)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Knox ​

• FORENAME

Alfred Dillwyn (Dilly) ​

• UNIT

SIS (GC and CS) ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

• DATE OF DEATH

27th February 1943 ​

• AGE

58 ​

• GRAVESITE

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 23.7.1884 Oxford​

son of Rev. Edmund Arbuthnott and late Ellen Penelope (nee French) Knox​

mother died 1892​

educated Summer Fields School,Oxford​

educated Eton College​

educated King's College,Cambridge 1903-07 (graduated 1906 and 1907)​

Fellow of King's College 1909​

served WW1 with ID 25 (Room 40),Naval Intelligence Division (cryptographer)​

GC and CS prewar until his death​

award C.M.G. 1943​

married Olive Roddam 1920 (2 sons)​

died of cancer Courn's Wood,near High Wycombe,Buckinghamshire ​

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