SOE Purvis, Robert William Berry

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Purvis ​

• FORENAME

Robert William Berry ​

• UNIT

Force 133 + F Section SOE ​

• RANK

Captain + Major ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Military Cross ​

• PLACE

Yugoslavia + France 1943-44 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Scots Guards​

born 1.7.1910 Gilmerton,Fife​

educated Glenalmond College​

educated Geneva,Switzerland​

educated Halle University,Saxony​

farming and forestry on his father's estate neat St Andrews in civilian life​

Scots Guards (Supplementary Reserve) 1939​

Scots Guards,Middle East 1942​

the Spears Mission HQ,Beirut 1942-43​

joined SOE July 1943​

Liaison Officer to Chetnik resistance forces,Yugoslavia​

SOE Ops South of France August 1944 (Mission Hautes Alpes) (Instructor)​

codename Manipule​

Control Commission for Germany 1945-47 (Lt Colonel)​

died 15.8.2001 ​

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