SIS Halestrap, Arthur

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Halestrap ​

• FORENAME

Arthur ​

• UNIT

MI6 (Diplomatic Wireless Service) ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Member of the Order of the British Empire ​

• PLACE

1963 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 8.9.1898 Southampton​

telegraphist,Southampton Post Office​

Royal Engineers (Sapper) September 1916​

46th (South Midland) Divisional Signal Company,Royal Engineers January 1918​

demobilised 1920​

joined Marconi postwar​

commissioned Royal Corps of Signals 1939​

S.O.E. (Chief Signal Officer,Grendon Underwood) 1942-45​

Allied Control Commission 1946​

Diplomatic Wireless Service postwar (retired 1970 age 72)​

awarded Legion d'Honneur (France) 1988 (for WW1)​

predeased by his wife,son and daughter​

his son John,RAF Navigator was KIA 1945​

died 1.4.2004 Kings Sutton ​

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