SOE Atherton, Arthur Terence

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Atherton
  • FORENAME
Arthur Terence
  • UNIT
Mission Hydra SOE
  • RANK
Major
  • NUMBER
234206
  • DATE OF DEATH
15th July 1942
  • AGE
39
  • GRAVESITE
Athens Memorial, Greece Face 10
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit General List
born 3.8.1902 Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire
son of Douglas Harold and Letitia Elizabeth Atherton
freelance journalist and editor South Slav Herald, Belgrade in civilian life
War Correspondent for "Daily Mail"
MIA Yugoslavia - believed murdered for his gold bullion
his w/t op "Sergeant Patrick O'Donovan" also died with him - no trace
in Commonwelth War Graves or PRO - an alias ?
 
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