SOE Woodhouse, Christopher Montague (Monty)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Woodhouse ​

• FORENAME

Christopher Montague (Monty) ​

• UNIT

Force 133 SOE ​

• RANK

Lieutenant (T/Captain) + Captain (T/Major) + Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

132388 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Order of the British Empire,Mention in Despatches (x2),etc ​

• PLACE

Greece 1943-44 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Artillery (or Intelligence Corps)​

born 11.5.1917​

second son of 3rd Baron Terrington​

educated Winchester and New College,Oxford​

commissioned R.A. 1940​

1st Military Mission to Athens 1940​

served SOE 1941-43​

Colonel 1942​

award Legion of Merit (US) 1944​

award Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) 1944​

Diplomatic Service 1946-55​

Conservative M.P. 1959-66 and 1970-74​

writer​

memoirs "Something Ventured" 1982​

married Lady Davina Lytton,widow of 5th Earl of Erne 1945 (died 1995)(3 children)​

5th Baron Terrington (inherited 1998)​

died 13.2.2001​

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