SOE Mackenzie, Colin Hercules

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Mackenzie​

• FORENAME

Colin Hercules​

• UNIT

Force 136 SOE (Head)​

• RANK

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• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George​

• PLACE

Far East 1941-45​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1898​

son of Major General Sir Colin John and Ethel (nee Ross) Mackenzie​

educated Summer Fields School,Oxford​

educated Eton College (King's Scholar)​

commissioned Scots Guards (2Lt) 15.1.1917​

WIA (leg amputated​

graduated King's College,Cambridge​

Director,J. and P. Coats,Glasgow​

Head of SOE India Mission + Force 136 1941-45​

J. and P. Coats postwar​

Chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Arts Council 1962-70​

retired to Isle of Skye​

married Evelyn Clodagh Meade 1940 (1916-2001) (1 daughter)​

died 1986​

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