SAS Farran, Roy Alexander

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Farran ​

• FORENAME

Roy Alexander ​

• UNIT

2 SAS (3 Squadron) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant (T/Captain) + Captain (T/Major) ​

• NUMBER

129133 ​

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,2nd bar to Military Cross,etc ​

• PLACE

Italy 1943 (2nd bar MC) Normandy 1944 (DSO) ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 3 Hussars,R.A.C. + Army Air Corps​

born 2.1.1921 Purley,Surrey​

educated Bishop Cotton School,Simla,India​

RMC Sandhurst​

3 Hussars​

WIA and POW May 1941 Crete (escaped)​

award M.C. and bar for Crete and escape​

ADC to GOC 7th Armoured Division 1942​

WIA 1942 Alamein​

2 SAS 1943-45​

3 Hussars 1946​

Instructor RMC Sandhurst​

seconded to Palestine Police​

resigned from Army 1948​

Managing Director of Keir and Cawdor (Rhodesia) Ltd​

married Ruth Ardern 1950 (died 2005)​

emigrated to Canada​

farmer,journalist and politician in Calgary,Alberta​

foreign awards​

Legion d'Honneur (Fr) 1944-45​

Croix de Guerre (Fr) 1944-45​

Legion of Merit - Officer (USA) 1948​

author :-​

"Winged Dagger" (1948)​

"Operation Tombola" (1986)​

died 2.6.2006 ​

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[galcock]

Roy Farran was my father's commanding officer. I taught in Edmonton for nine months and missed the opportunity to visit Roy Farran, at his invitation, in 1990. My father was a member of the Italy Detachment with Jack Paley. My father was SQMS John Alcock of 2 SAS.