SOE deChastelain, Alfred George Gardyne (Chas)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

deChastelain ​

• FORENAME

Alfred George Gardyne (Chas) ​

• UNIT

SOE Force 133 ​

• RANK

Major + Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

P/185055 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Officer of the Order of the British Empire ​

• PLACE

Romania 1943 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Artists' Rifles (General List in OBE Gazette 14.10.1943 and DSO 25.1.1945)​

born February 1906 London​

Anglo-Scots parents​

educated Dollar Academy,Clackmannanshire​

graduated Battersea Polytechnic,London (degree in petroleum engineering)​

employed by Unirea,Bucharest,Romania 1930s​

commissioned Artists' Rifles​

SOE Istanbul 1940​

SOE Romania July 1940​

arrested December 1943 near Plosca,Romania​

released August 1944​

SAS (TA) postwar​

partner,Griffin Enterprises,London 1945​

Vice-President,H.J. Eastman,Calgary,Alberta,Canada​

moved to Australia and returned to Calgary​

married Marion Elizabeth Walsh 1933 (2 children Jacquie and John)​

his son John was the Canadian General who oversaw the IRA weapons decommissioning programme​

died 1974 Calgary,Alberta,Canada​

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