SAS Mather, David Carol Macdonell

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Mather ​

• FORENAME

David Carol Macdonell ​

• UNIT

L Detachment SAS ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER
  124488

• AWARD

Mention in Despatches ​

• PLACE

North Africa 1942 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Welsh Guards​

born 3.1.1919 Adlington,Cheshire​

son of Loris Emerson and Gwendoline Marion Leila (nee Morley) Mather​

commissioned 2Lt Welsh Guards 23.3.1940​

8 Commando 1941-42​

GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom),R.A.C. (HQ Squadron) 1942​

L Detachment SAS 1942 (Lt - Cap)​

1 SAS (B Squadron) 1942 (Cap)​

POW 1942 - escaped​

holder M.C.​

retired 1962 as Lt Colonel​

postwar Member of Parliament​

Knighted​

author "When the Grass Stops Growing" (1997) ​

married Philippa Selina Bewicke-Copley March 1951 (4 children Selina,Rose,Nicholas and Victoria)​

died 3.7.2006 Oddington,Gloucestershire​

St Nicholas Churchyard,Oddington,Gloucestershire​

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