- SURNAME
Fincken
- FORENAME
Jack Thorez
- UNIT
F Section
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
205763
- AWARD
Member of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
France
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Fusiliers
born 6.3.1912
commissioned 2Lt 12.9.1941 (from Private)
codename Jean
Autogyro Circuit (assistant)
arrested
liberated 1945
stamp dealer, London postwar
changed surname to Fincken-McKay
London Gazette 37244, 28th August 1945, Page 4371 (MBE) (Jean Thorez Fincken)
WEB LINKS:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8953233 (SOE File)https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16382112
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37244/supplement/4371
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/21/living-skeleton-colditz-prisoner-denied-compensation-archives/
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