- SURNAME
Burn
- FORENAME
Michael Clive (Micky)
- UNIT
2 Commando (6 Troop)
- RANK
Captain
- NUMBER
74087
- AWARD
Military Cross
- PLACE
St Nazaire 1942
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit King's Royal Rifle Corps
born 11.12.1912 Mayfair,London
son of Sir Clive Burn,KCVO (Secretary of the Duchy of Cornwall)
educated Winchester
educated New College,Oxford
reporter for The Times in civilian life
enlisted 1937 KRRC (T.A.)
commissioned February 1938 (KRRC)
Independent Company
2 Commando
POW March 1942 St Nazaire
liberated April 1945 (from Colditz)
journalist and author postwar
married Mary Booker (nee Walter) March 1947 (died 1974) (no children)
autobiography "Turned Towards the Sun" (2003)
died 3.9.2010
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