SOE Armstrong, John

We Dared To Win: The SAS In Rhodesia
By Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers

John Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Armstrong
  • FORENAME
John
  • UNIT
Force 133 SOE
  • RANK
Captain
  • NUMBER
246996
  • DATE OF DEATH
4th June 1944
  • AGE
24​
  • GRAVESITE
Cassino Memorial,Italy Panel 13
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit General List
true name Adler,Gabor
born 15.9.1919 Hungary
resided Hungary
son of Ida Olga Adler,Rome,Italy
"Lieutenant" (CWGC and PRO)
"Gabriel Adler" (CWGC and PRO)
codename Gabriel
aka Gabriele Bianchi
w/t operator
landed Sardinia January 1943 with Salvatore Serra (former Italian Carabinieri) who survived war and died 1974
POW soon after landing
executed with 13 Italians near La Storta,Rome,Italy
buried in anonymous grave in a wood near La Storta as "Unknown Englishman"
identified as Adler 2007
 

DATE OF DEATH:

04-Jun-1944

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55977972/gabriel-adler
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