- SURNAME
Kell
- FORENAME
Sir Vernon George Waldegrave
- UNIT
MI5
- RANK
Major General
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- PLACE
1942
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 21.11.1873 Great Yarmouth,Norfolk
son of Major Waldegrave Charles Vernon and Georgiana Augusta (nee Konarska) Kell
father served in Zulu War with South Staffordshire Regiment
RMC Sandhurst
Staffordshire Regiment 1894
Mention in Despatches for Boxer Rebellion,Shanhai 1900
Head of German Section,War Office 1902-06 (Staff Captain)
Assistant Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence
Secret Intelligence Bureau October 1909
Director-General Secret Service Bureau 1909-31
Director-General Secret Service (MI5) 1931-40
retired summer 1940 as Major General
awards C.B. 1917,K.B.E. 1919,K.C.M.G. 1942,Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France)
married Constance Rawdon Scott 1900 (3 children)
died 27.3.1942 Emberton,Olney,Buckinghamshire
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