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Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS
By Lorna Almonds Windmill
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 35294" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Curtis </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lawrence Wesley (Larry) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R. </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>139644 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>bar to Distinguished Flying Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London Gazette 11.4.1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 10.5.1921 Wednesbury,Staffordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>clerk,Midland Counties Mutual Benefit Society,Dudley</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RAFVR October 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>a Wellington squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>27 OTU 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pilot Officer January 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>158 Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award DFC (17.8.1943)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>617 Squadron 26.7.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>w.op/air gunner</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer 19.8.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award bar DFC (11.4.1944)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Transport Command 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>demobilised 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Managing Director,Curtis (Wool) Holdings,Leeds</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Barbara 1945 (3 sons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 21.6.2008 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-curtis.8187/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8187-e2cbdc89c96dd2ffec2ec29abb527886.jpg?1591389216" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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