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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29591" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Astor </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Francis David Langhorne (the Hon.) (David) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ SAS Brigade </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain + Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Croix de Guerre (France) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Normandy 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Marines</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 5.3.1912 London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2nd son of Waldorf,2nd Viscount and Nancy Astor</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>brother of the Hon.John Jacob Astor of Phantom Signals</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Eton and Balliol College,Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned R.M. 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>O.C.SAS HQ in Paris 1945 with Leading Wren Joan Forty (formerly of HQ</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Combined Ops)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA 1944 France</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>editor of The Observer postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>created Companion of Honour 1994</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Melanie Hauser 1945 (dissolved) (1 daughter)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Bridget Wreford 1952 (5 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 6.12.2001 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-astor.467/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/0/467-4e72ad0be3eb40b2937e4c8b179e86cb.jpg?1591383013" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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