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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 33169" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bookless </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Archibald John (Archie) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>8 Bn (HQ - Adjutant) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>121646 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Germany 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 08.06.1917 Ningpo, China</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Loretto School, Edinburgh</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>03.1940 Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>07.1943 Parachute Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>8th Parachute Battalion</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>postwar chartered accountant then tractor importing Calcutta</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1954 emigrated to Canada, chartered insurance underwriter</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 29.10.2006</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">OBITUARY MAJOR ARCHIBALD "ARCHIE" JOHN BOOKLESS MC, CA. June 8, 1917 - October 29, 2006 Passed away peacefully, in Ottawa on October 29, 2006 in his ninetieth year. He is survived by his wife of 54 years Catherine Teresa Glancey, four children - Christopher (Whitehorse, YT), Madeleine (Charlbury, Oxon, UK), Catherine (Ottawa, ON), Caroline (Ottawa, ON), and five grandchildren - Richard and James Wheare, Alexandra and Eric Bookless and Thea Gaudet. Dear uncle of John and Sheila Marchant of Norfolk, England and Archie Marchant of Edinburgh, Scotland. </span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-bookless.5082/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/5/5082-fc78db5f4e779e50ef9698a4f4c76791.jpg?1591384212" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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