- SURNAME
Petrie
- FORENAME
David
- UNIT
MI5
- RANK
Director-General
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- PLACE
1945
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 9.9.1879 Inveravon,Banffshire
son of Thomas and Jane (nee Allan) Petrie
graduated Aberdeen University 1900 (M.A.)
Indian Police December 1900-36
wounded by Sikh revolutionaries 29.9.1914
awards King's Police Medal (KPM) 1914,C.I.E. 1915,O.B.E. 1918,C.B.E. 1919,C.V.O. 1922,Knighthood 1929
commissioned Intelligence Corps May 1940 (Cairo)
SIS (MI6) 1936-41
MI5 November 1940
Director General of MI5 1941-45 (retired)
foreign awards
Legion of Merit (Commander) (US)
Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau with swords (Netherlands)
Order of the Lion (Class III) (Czechoslovakia)
married Edris Naida Warrall 1920 (died 1945) (no children)
died 7.8.1961 Sidmouth,Devon
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