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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 32064" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Aptaker </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Benjamin </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>F Section SOE </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>294218 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit General List</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 21.8.1923 London (adjusted to 1922 for service)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated in private boarding school,England</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>family moved to Belgium</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>student in Switzerland 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merchant Navy</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Intelligence Corps 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>F Section SOE 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>codename Aleric</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gardener Circuit (w/t operator) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">dropped into France 6.3.1944</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">posted to Dachau 1945</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Judge Advocate General's Branch 1945-46 (Germany) (A/Major)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">awarded Croix de Guerre</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">changed his name to Roger Forster after his first marriage</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">hotel manager,southern France and England</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">consultant 1963</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">emigrated to Australia</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">married Jean Dorothy Forster 1948 (predeceased him) (1 son)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">married Doreen Stephens 1980 (1 son)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">died 2.9.2012</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/b-aptaker.15737/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15737-37d83f4a698936c3ec06a16e2b97c36e.jpg?1591399507" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/b-aptaker-fake-id.18032/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/18/18032-c05937750c6dbea85b26dd5fe8f028ba.jpg?1591400155" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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