SOE Bacon, Roland Clinton (Rev.)

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Bacon
  • FORENAME
Roland Clinton (Rev.)
  • UNIT
Force 136 SOE
  • RANK
Captain
  • NUMBER
EC/9466
  • DATE OF DEATH
13th March 1945
  • AGE
41
  • GRAVESITE
Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar 18.D.18
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 7 Bn Rajput Regiment, Indian Army
born 28.3.1904 Upper Nappan, Nova Scotia, Canada
son of Robert Clinton and Lillian May (nee Smith) Bacon
husband of Elizabeth Pearl (nee Macrae) Bacon, Amherst, Nova Scotia (married 18.6.1931) (1908-66) (4children)
graduated Regina Normal School, Saskatchewan 1923 (B.A.)
graduated Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick 1929
graduated Pine Hill Divinity College, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1931
graduated Emmanuel College, University of Toronto 1939 (B.D.)
missionary to Manchuria and Korea 1941-41 and India 1941-42
enlisted 2 Bn Border Regiment in India 23.9.1942 (Private)
Officer's Training School, Belgaum, India 26.9.1942-21.1.1943
commissioned Second Lieutenant 21.1.1943
GS Br. Sigs 3-Cipher Course, GHQ New Delhi 25.1.1943-12.2.1943
Cipher Officer, E.Army Cipher Pool, Barreckpora 12.2.1943 (Lt)
attached 7 Bn Rajput Regiment 12.2.1943
British Cipher Officer - USAAF, Kanikhoa, Assam 8.3.1943-26.10.1943
Force 136 SOE 26.10.1943-13.3.1945
Liaison Officer with Korean National Army Liaison Unit 26.10.1943-15.9.1944
T/Captain, Special Employment, SEAC-SOE Department of Psychological Warfare 1.2.1944
Indian Field Broadcasting Unit (IFBU -Lt Col George Steer)
WIA and DOW same day in hospital Monywa, Burma
remembered in St Andrew's Cemetery, Baddeck, Nova Scotia
 
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