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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 36339" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Blomfield </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vernon Elliott </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mission Bergamotte </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>P/193707 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Member of the Order of the British Empire,Medal of Freedom with silver palm (USA),Croix de Guerre avec palme (France) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Suffolk Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 25.5.1905 Harrow-on-the-Hill,Middlesex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Edwin Cecil and and Ada H. (nee Elliott) Blomfield</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Harestone Hill,Caterham,Sussex during WW2</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>family moved to Canada pre WW1</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated St Andrews College,Toronto,Canada</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated University of London (B.A. with 1st Class Hons in French)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>teacher of modern languages,King Edward's School,Stourbridge</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 17.10.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Suffolk Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lance Cpl November 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>168 OCTU April-June 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 21.6.1941 (WS 2Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 Bn Suffolk Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE 5.1.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>STS4 Depot 5.1.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Group A January 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>STS 51 July 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Group B May 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>ME 65 (Jedburgh training) May 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>to France 1.6.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>returned UK 21.9.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>posted 3 Infantry Holding Bn 9.7.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A/Lieutenant 16.3.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WS/Lt 1.11.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A/Captain 1.11.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Captain 1.2.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A/Major 10.9.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WS/Captain 10.12.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Major 10.12.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A/Lt Colonel 10.4.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WS/Lt Colonel 9.7.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Joan Percy Carrington</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Cobra (2nd marriage) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/v-blomfield.10115/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/10/10115-980b88548709d20bdf1334b8d36c2f78.jpg?1591389733" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/v-blomfield.10116/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/10/10116-b9d7807cd6dad1f5dbe676f3dca56491.jpg?1591389733" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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