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UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940-44
By S.A.M. Hudson
Flames in the Field: The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France
By Rita Kramer
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 33202" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burkinshaw </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Philip Lewys</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12 Bn (A Company) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>264936 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Normandy 1944</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1922 Wakefield, Yorkshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated King George VII School, Sheffield</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Cadet,University Senior Training Corps 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Corps of Signals (despatch rider) 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12 Bn Parachute Regiment 1943-45</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA June 1944 Normandy</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>9 Bn Parachute Regiment 1945-46 (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>demobilised September 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded O.B.E. (date ?)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1/4 (Hallamshire) Bn York and Lancaster Regiment 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Sheffield University postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colonial Administrative Service 1949 (Africa)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corps of Queen's Messengers 1969</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pearce Commission to Rhodesia 1976</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>FCO Security Department (retired 1982)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Diane</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author of Alarms and Excursions (1991)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 24.6.2014 age 92 Little Walsingham, Norfolk</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-burkinshaw.20388/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20388-451363e0f3b195322f3058fb28b496c9.jpg?1591400763" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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