SOE Fernandez, Leslie Percival (Les)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Fernandez ​

• FORENAME

Leslie Percival (Les) ​

• UNIT

SOE France ​

• RANK

Warrant Officer Second Class ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Military Medal,Croix de Guerre (Fr) ​

• PLACE

France 1943-44 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Army Physical Training Corps​

born 22.3.1918 Bristol​

educated Plymouth College​

educated Exeter University​

Royal Signals 1939​

Army Physical Training Corps (instructor)​

Commando Training Centre,Iceland​

17 Special Training School,SOE (Staff Sgt instructor)​

Military Ops 1,Algiers January 1943 (WOII)​

dropped France 5.7.1943​

joined Jockey Circuit,F Section SOE​

commissioned Special Forces December 1944​

British Liaison Officer,Italian Partisans 1945​

British Liaison Officer,6th Airborne Division 1945​

Staff Officer PT,1st Allied Airborne Group HQ,London August 1945​

retired 1947 (Captain)​

Foreign Service 1947-74​

awarded O.B.E.​

married Charlotte Franquebalme 1944 (dissolved 1958) (3 children)​

married Elizabeth Covington 1963​

died 16.7.2009 ​

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