- SURNAME
Myers
- FORENAME
Edmund Charles Wolf (Eddie)
- UNIT
Force 133 SOE (Head of British Military Mission to Greece)
- RANK
Major (T/Lieutenant Colonel) + A/Brigadier
- NUMBER
36717
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Commander of the Order of British Empire
- PLACE
Greece 1942 (DSO) Greece 1943 (CBE)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Engineers
born 12.10.1906 Kensington,London
elder son of Dr Charles Samuel,CBE,FRS and Edith (nee Seligman) Myers
educated Haileybury and RMA Woolwich
educated Caius College and Gonville College,Cambridge University
B.A.,C.Eng.,M.I.E.
commissioned R.E. 30.8.1926
Staff Officer R.E.,GHQ,Middle East Land Forces 8.2.1940-15.3.1940
GSO 2 12.3.1941-17.1.1942
GSO1 2.2.1942-2.8.1942
Deputy Director,Middle East 3.8.1942-30.9.1942
SOE (OC British Military Mission to Greek Resistance Forces) 1.10.1942-28.2.1943
T/Brigadier 1943
Director of Special Operations (MO4) 1.3.1943-9.2.1944
O.C. Special Forces Detachment,SHAEF HQ (MO1,UK) 28.2.1944-14.8.1944
C.R.E.,HQ 1st Airborne Division September 1944-1945
Colonel,General Staff,South East Asia Command 23.7.1945-28.2.1946
Lt-Colonel 1946
SO1,Joint Intelligence Board,M.O.D. 1.4.1946-13.10.1948
Colonel 1949
Colonel,General Staff (GSO1),War Office 12.12.1949-16.5.1951
served Korea 1951-52 (Mention in Despatches)
Colonel,General Staff,RAF Staff College 12.12.1952-10.12.1954
Brigadier 1955
Chief Engineer,HQ British Troops in Egypt 7.2.1955-3.2.1956 (Brigadier)
Deputy Director of Personnel Administration,War Office 30.4.1956-1959
retired 1959
married Louisa Mary Hay Sweet-Escott 12.10.1943 (died 1995)
author "Greek Entanglement" (1995)
died 6.12.1997 Gloucestershire
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