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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 23470" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Birts </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ivor Watkins </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>132903 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17th April 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>34 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Newquay (Fairpark) Cemetery,Cornwall C.of E. plot Cons.Grave 685 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Artillery</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 11.1.1910 Kensington,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of William Thomas Watkins and Lilian Grace (nee Stephens) Birts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Marie Josephine (nee Bain) Birts,Westminster,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>brother of Kenneth Watkins Birts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father of Carol and John Donald Watkins Birts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Oxford University (B.A.)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>barrister in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College,Loughborough 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff College,Camberley 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>believed to be posted to Yugoslavia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Warwick BV247 (525 Sq,RAF) exploded and crashed English Channel near Newquay,</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Cornwall </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/i-birts.20104/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20104-2a1b5c255789ed1056ff740902300375.jpg?1591400688" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/i-birts-2nd-from-right.20110/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20110-645349eabea4ae413644d5fef2f60d81.jpg?1591400690" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/i-birts-2nd-from-right.20111/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20111-629dde33b0fca89ab4828acf628589c0.jpg?1591400690" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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