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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 30523" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Anstey </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Op.Massingham,Algiers + Force 136 SOE</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major + T/Brigadier</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">88307</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre avec Palm (Fr),Legion of Merit (USA) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Algeria 1943 (LdH,CdG) Far East 1945 (CBE)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Somerset Light Infantry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 3.1.1907 Devon</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Clifton and Trinity College,Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Clifton OTC 1921-25</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sub Lieutenant RNVR</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed with Imperial Tobacco in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 1930s</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Somerset Light Infantry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE November 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Algiers 1943 (Major)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Oriental Mission (Head)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Force 136 SOE (Chief of Staff) 1944-45 (Lt Col - Brigadier) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Knighted 1975</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Elizabeth Garnett 1935 (died 1990) (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 2000 (Aged 93)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-anstey.29505/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29505-5a6ccbf58662bb4d5aaca025a8e7b69a.jpg?1591434422" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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