- SURNAME
Smiley
- FORENAME
David De Crespigny
- UNIT
Force 133 SOE (2IC of British Military Mission to Albania) + Force 136
- RANK
Lieutenant (T/Captain) + Captain (T/Major) + Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
P/69082
- AWARD
Military Cross and bar,Officer of the Order of the British Empire,Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
Albania 1943 (MC and bar) Far East 1945 (OBE,CdeG)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Horse Guards
born 11.4.1916
son of Major-General Sir John Smiley,Bt
educated Pangbourne Nautical College
graduated RMC Sandhurst 27.8.1936
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) (2Lt)
Lieutenant 27.8.1939
1st Household Cavalry Regiment 1940
T/Captain 1941
52 Commando November 1940-1941
1st Household Cavalry Regiment 1941-42
SOE 1943
Greece and Albania
T/Major 27.8.1944
Force 136 1945 (LtCol)
Staff College,Camberley 1946
Lt Colonel 15.12.1951
C.O. Royal Horse Guards 1952-55
MI6 postwar (Malta)
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) (C.O.) 1952-55
award M.V.O. (later L.V.O.) 18.3.1952 (for Queen's Coronation)
Military Attache,Stockholm (Colonel)
C.O. Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces until 1961
resigned from Army early 1960s as Colonel
military adviser,Yemen until 1967
farmer,Spain for 20 years
award Mention in Despatches 1941 for Middle East (unit ?)
married Moya Montagu Douglas Scott 1947 (2 sons,1 stepson,1 stepdaughter)
author of 3 memoirs
"Arabian Assignment" 1975
"Albanian Assignment" 1984
"Irregular Regular" 1994
died 8.1.2009
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