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Carve Her Name with Pride
By Rubeigh James Minney
Para! 50 Years of the Parachute Reg: Fifty Years of the Parachute Regiment
By Peter Harclerode
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 30501" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Craster </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Oswin Edmund (Os) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Jedburgh Team Stanley + Team Zebra</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain + T/Major</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong><br /> 71959</li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches (x2),Croix de Guerre (France) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944 (MiD,CdG) Burma 1945 (MiD)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 5 Bn Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 28.6.1916 Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Stowe College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated New College,Oxford (1934-37) (OTC)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>archaeologist,HM Official Work in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 Bn Ox.and Bucks LI 1938 (Pte) 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commission same Bn 1940-43</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE (Jedburghs) November 1943-44 (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>codename Yorkshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 (Airborne) Bn Ox.and Bucks LI 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Force 136 SOE 1945 (TeamZebra on Op.Nation)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches again 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>postwar employed Ancient Monuments Inspectorate</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Mary Molony 1944 (3 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 29.1.2006 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/o-craster.29510/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29510-e78d9f1d038cdfd6541561d806f989c3.jpg?1591434426" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/o-craster.29892/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/29/29892-750bd47949277469bef21c9f788ab189.jpg?1591434702" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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