SOE Dobree, Peter George James

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Dobree ​

• FORENAME

Peter George James ​

• UNIT

Force 136 SOE ​

• RANK

Lieutenant Colonel​

• NUMBER

• AWARD

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Mil) ​

• PLACE

Burma 1945 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 3rd Gurkha Rifles​

born 15.7.1913 Grays,Essex​

son of Frank and Eliza Dobree​

educated Westminster School​

graduated Reading University 1935​

assistant rubber planter,Malaya​

Malayan Colonial Service​

dairy farmer,Malaya​

commission in Gurkha Rifles 1942​

Force 136 SOE 1944-45 (Lt Colonel)​

agriculturist Wellington,Somerset postwar​

married Jill Rennie postwar (dissolved 1963) (2 sons)​

married Mary Sumption 1964 (1 daughter and 2 stepsons)​

memoir "Hot Rain Means Danger" 1994​

awarded title of Datun (State of Perak) 1999​

died 21.10.2004​

St Catherine's Churchyard,Withleigh,Devon ​

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