SOE Greenwood, Erik Spencer

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Greenwood ​

• FORENAME

Erik Spencer ​

• UNIT

SOE Yugoslavia ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Mention in Despatches ​

• PLACE

Yugoslavia 1943-44 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 5.7.1916 Halifax,Yorkshire​

educated The Leys,Cambridge​

Consular Service​

resided Estonia 1939 (studying Russian)​

Corps of Military Police October 1939​

5 Bn Scots Guards 1940 (ranks)​

an Independent Company​

3 Commando​

trained Cambridge as an interrogator of German POWs​

posted Cairo​

SOE 1942​

to Serbia 18.4.1943​

Control Commission Germany 1945-46​

demobilised as Major​

employed by Alcan (aluminium producers) (25 years)​

employed by Rio Tinto-Zinc in UK​

married Catherine Mackinnon 1941 (predeceased him) (2 children)​

died 6.9.2009 ​

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