SOE Wilkinson, Peter Allix

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Wilkinson ​

• FORENAME

Peter Allix ​

• UNIT

1 Special Force SOE ​

• RANK

T/Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

P/62882 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order ​

• PLACE

Italy 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)​

born 15.4.1914 India​

father,regular Army Captain mortally wounded Ypres 1914​

educated Scaitcliffe preparatory school​

educated Rugby and Corpus Christi College,Cambridge​

joined Royal Fusiliers 1935​

Military Mission to Poland 1939​

joined SOE late 1940​

Crete 1941​

Slovenia and Austria 1942-44​

1 Special Force,Italy 1944​

O.C. No.6 Special Force SOE 1945 (Austria)​

married Theresa Villiers 1945 (died 1984)​

Foreign Office postwar​

later awarded KCMG,OBE​

autobiography "Foreign Fields" 1997​

died 16.6.2000​

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