SOE Styles, Victor Kensett

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Styles ​

• FORENAME

Victor Kensett ​

• UNIT

SOE British Military Mission,Reggio Emilia,Italy ​

• RANK

Trooper ​

• NUMBER

7906218 ​

• AWARD

Mention in Despatches ​

• PLACE

Italy 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 2.5.1918 Little Tring,Buckinghamshire​

son of William Kensett (d.1940) and Anne (nee Pimm) Styles,6 Beechwood Close,Mill Hill,London NW7​

educated Mercer's School​

private tuition,Highcliff,Hampshire​

clerk,Bambergers and Sons (timber merchants),London 1936-38​

assistant director,Ferry Lane Wharfage and Storage Co.,Tottenham 1938-39​

4th County of London Yeomanry,R.A.C. 12.12.1939​

HQ 2nd Armoured Division 14.6.1940​

POW 8.4.1941 El Mechili,North Africa​

PG52 Chiavari Camp,Italy​

escaped 13.9.1943​

joined partisans and British Military Mission​

in Allied hands 12.12.1944​

repatriated to UK​

161 Reconnaissance Regiment 9.1.1945 (Lance Corporal)​

100 Officer Cadet Training Unit 30.9.1945​

Army Reserve 1.6.1946​

discharged from Reserve 30.6.1959​

schoolteacher postwar​

died 26.5.2001 West Hampstead,London​

cremated​

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