SOE Tilman, Harold William (Bill)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Tilman ​

• FORENAME

Harold William (Bill) ​

• UNIT

1 Special Force SOE ​

• RANK

T/Major ​

• NUMBER

123993 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order ​

• PLACE

Italy 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Artillery​

born 14.2.1898 Wallasey,Cheshire​

educated Berkhamsted Boys School​

Royal Field Artillery (2Lt) 1916​

WIA 3 times​

award M.C. and bar​

coffee grower in Kenya and mountaineer between wars​

Royal Artillery 1939​

award Mention in Despatches 1940 (Captain)​

SOE June 1943​

Force 133​

Albania 1943-44​

1 Special Force​

Italy 1944​

postwar mountaineer,explorer and author​

never married​

award C.B.E. (date ?)​

died 1977 (disappeared during voyage in South Atlantic) ​

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