PARAS Burkinshaw, Philip Lewys

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Burkinshaw ​

• FORENAME

Philip Lewys​

• UNIT

12 Bn (A Company) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

264936 ​

• AWARD

Mention in Despatches ​

• PLACE

Normandy 1944​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1922 Wakefield, Yorkshire​

educated King George VII School, Sheffield​

Cadet,University Senior Training Corps 1941​

Royal Corps of Signals (despatch rider) 1941​

commissioned Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1942​

12 Bn Parachute Regiment 1943-45​

WIA June 1944 Normandy​

9 Bn Parachute Regiment 1945-46 (Captain)​

demobilised September 1946​

awarded O.B.E. (date ?)​

1/4 (Hallamshire) Bn York and Lancaster Regiment 1947​

graduated Sheffield University postwar​

Colonial Administrative Service 1949 (Africa)​

Corps of Queen's Messengers 1969​

Pearce Commission to Rhodesia 1976​

FCO Security Department (retired 1982)​

married Diane​

author of Alarms and Excursions (1991)​

died 24.6.2014 age 92 Little Walsingham, Norfolk​

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