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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 39835" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>deChastelain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Alfred George Gardyne (Chas) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Force 133 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major + Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>P/185055 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order,Officer of the Order of the British Empire </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Romania 1943 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Artists' Rifles (General List in OBE Gazette 14.10.1943 and DSO 25.1.1945)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born February 1906 London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Anglo-Scots parents</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Dollar Academy,Clackmannanshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Battersea Polytechnic,London (degree in petroleum engineering)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed by Unirea,Bucharest,Romania 1930s</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Artists' Rifles</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Istanbul 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Romania July 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>arrested December 1943 near Plosca,Romania</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>released August 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SAS (TA) postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>partner,Griffin Enterprises,London 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vice-President,H.J. Eastman,Calgary,Alberta,Canada</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>moved to Australia and returned to Calgary</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Marion Elizabeth Walsh 1933 (2 children Jacquie and John)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>his son John was the Canadian General who oversaw the IRA weapons decommissioning programme</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 1974 Calgary,Alberta,Canada</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-de-chastelain.14605/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/14/14605-de005d3464cdfd83eb2a5e838001a410.jpg?1591399206" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-dechastelain.21937/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/21/21937-49db3f37043dadba2703d036366027c9.jpg?1591401166" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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