SOE Deakin, Frederick William Dampier (Bill)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Deakin ​

• FORENAME

Frederick William Dampier (Bill) ​

• UNIT

Force 133 SOE​

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• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Order of Valour (Russia) ​

• PLACE

Yugoslavia 1943 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars​

born 3.7.1913​

educated Westminster School and Christ Church,Oxford​

fellowship at WAdham College 1935-50​

Q.O.Oxfordshire Hussars 1939​

SOE 1941​

University lecturer,administrator and historian postwar​

award Partisan Star 1st Class (Yugoslavia) 1969​

award Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) 1953​

award Grosse Verdienstkreuz (Federal Germany) 1958​

knighted 1975​

married Margaret Ogilvy Bell 1935 (dissolved 1940) (2 sons)​

married Livia Stela Nasta of Bucharest 1943 (died 2001)​

died 22.1.2005 ​

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