SOE Spencer Chapman, Frederick (Freddie)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Spencer Chapman ​

• FORENAME

Frederick (Freddie) ​

• UNIT

Force 136 SOE ​

• RANK

T/Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER
  73338
• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order and bar ​

• PLACE

Malaya 1942-45 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Seaforth Highlanders​

born 10.5.1907 London​

son of Frank and Winifred Ormond Spencer Chapman​

mother died shortly after his birth,father died in battle of the Somme​

educated Sedbergh School and Cambridge University​

British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-31​

Greenland Expedition 1932-33​

expeditions to Lapland and Himalayas 1935-36​

Private Secretary to Political Officer,Lhasa 1936​

teacher at Gordonstoun School​

Royal Engineers​

commissioned Seaforth Highlanders​

SOE STS 101,Singapore (instructor) 1941​

Oriental Mission and Force 136 1942-45​

twice wounded​

headmaster postwar​

memoirs of war "The Jungle is Neutral"​

died 8.8.1971 ​

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