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Outwitting the Gestapo
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Parachutes, Patriots, Partisans: The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
By Heather Williams
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 50085" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Barron</em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Robert James</em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Force 136 SOE</em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Captain</em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>253487</em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches</em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Gordon Highlanders</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 5.9.1917 London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>travelling salesman for rubber company,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Bn London Scottish 1935-39</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 Independent Company April 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Special Service Bn November 1940 - March 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Commando (1 Troop) March 1941 - October 1942 (Sergeant 2877629)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 28.11.1942 Gordon Highlanders</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE August 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma November 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Op.Character (Hyena Team) 24.3.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA April 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>returned to field 17.7.1945 - November 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.B.E. 1998</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 2000 Watford,Hertfordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-barron.32023/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/32/32023-263516a2f4d753d0bd44fcdc233f27ec.jpg?1591436125" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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