- SURNAME
Critchley
- FORENAME
Ronald Asheton
- UNIT
Mission 101 SOE + Force 136 SOE
- RANK
Major + Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
33662
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross
- PLACE
Ethiopia 1940 (MC) Burma 1945 (DSO)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 13/18th Royal Hussars,R.A.C.
born 8.10.1905 Dumfriesshire
educated Wellington College
RMC Sandhurst
13/18th Royal Hussars 1925 (2Lt)
married Violet Hirsch 1937
101 Mission,Ethiopia SOE 1940 (MC)
Force 136 HQ Delhi 1942-45
Op.Mongoose 1945 (DSO)
Military Attache,Buenos Aires 1945-47
retired from Army 1947
President, Northern Rhodesian Wildlife Conservation Society 1952-72
died 27.8.1999
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