SAS Foot, Michael Richard Daniell

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Foot ​

• FORENAME

Michael Richard Daniell ​

• UNIT

HQ SAS Brigade (Intelligence Officer) ​

• RANK

T/Major ​

• NUMBER

85455 ​

• AWARD

Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre (Fr) ​

• PLACE

France 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Artillery
born 14.12.1919 England
educated Winchester College
educated New College,Oxford 1938-39
Territorial Army prewar
Royal Artillery (searchlight unit,Anti-Aircraft Command) 1939
HQ Combined Operations (Intell.Officer) (Major) August 1942
Mention in Despatches (first)
SAS Brigade 1944
dropped rank when joining SAS
POW August 1944 Brittany
released November 1944
graduated New College,Oxford postwar
taught at Oxford
Professor of Modern History,Manchester 1965-73
Director of Studies,Foreign Office's European Discussion Centre,Wilton Park,West Sussex 1973
historian and author (mainly of SOE)
autobiography "Memories of an S.O.E. Historian" (2008)
appointed an Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau 1989
awarded C.B.E. 2001
married Philippa Ruth Bosanquet 1945 (3.10.1920 - 3.10.2010) (dissolved 1960)
married Elizabeth King 1960 (dissolved) (1 son,1 daughter)
married Mirjam Michaela Romme 1972
died 18.2.2012 ​