SOE Croft, Noel Andrew Cotton

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Croft ​

• FORENAME

Noel Andrew Cotton ​

• UNIT

SOE ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

111734 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order ​

• PLACE

Mediterranean 1943 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Essex Regiment​

born 30.11.1906 Stevenage,Hertfordshire​

son of Robert Croft​

educated Stowe School​

educated Christ Church,Oxford​

teacher at Ferndown Preparatory School,Sussex 1933​

mountaineer/Arctic explorer 1930s​

fluent German and French speaker​

pilot,Civil Air Guard 1938​

Lt Essex Regiment 1.8.1938​

MI(R) 1939​

British Army Liaison Officer to Finnish Army 1939​

joined SOE 1941​

Assistant Military Attache,Stockholm (SOE)​

Shetland Islands (aerial survey) 1942​

14 Commando (1 Troop) 1942-43​

SOE Massingham 2.4.1943 (Captain)​

raids in Mediterranean (France,North Africa,Corsica) 1943​

Lt Essex Regiment 21.5.1949​

War Office 1946-50s​

O.C. Junior Leaders,Plymouth 1950s​

O.C. Army Apprentices School,Harrogate 1950s​

retired from Army 1960​

Commandant Metropolitan Police Cadet Corps 1961-71​

award O.B.E. 1970​

autobiography "A Talent for Adventure" 1991​

married Rosalind Madden (widow) 24.7.1952​

died 26.6.1998 ​

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Andrew Croft

lMember of the Military Intelligence research organisation 1938 -1939.
Member of the British Resistance army Essex / Kent 1939 - 1940
otherwise known as the Auxiliary Units from 1940 to 1941