- SURNAME
Hambro
- FORENAME
Charles Jocelyn
- UNIT
Head of Scandinavian Section
- RANK
Squadron Leader
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
1941
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
born 3.10.1897 London
son of (Sir) Charles Eric and Sybil Emily (nee Smith) Hambro
educated Eton College 1910-15
RMC Sandhurst
Coldstream Guards 1916-18 (M.C.)
merchant banker (C.J. Hambro and Son)
Director of the Bank of England 1928
Ministry of Economic Warfare 1939
SOE August 1940
Head of Scandinavian Section (awarded KBE for this service)
overseer of French,Belgian,Dutch and German Sections December 1940
Deputy Executive Chief of SOE November 1941-42
Executive Chief of SOE ("C") April 1942
resigned September 1943
Head of British Raw Materials Commission,Washington,D.C. 1943-45
married Pamela Cobbold 22.10.1919 (died 1932) (4 children)
married Dorothy Helen Mackay 1936 (1 daughter)
died 28.8.1963 Marylebone,London
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