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Men of War: The Fighting Few Who Took on the World
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 28753" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Forfar </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Oldroyd </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>47 R.M. Commando (HQ Troop) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>227049 </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Cross,Mention in Despatches </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Normandy 1944 (MiD) Walcheren 1944 (MC)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Army Medical Corps </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 16.11.1916 Glasgow</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Perth Academy</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated University of St Andrews 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>house surgeon,Perth</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned R.A.M.C. 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>11 Field Ambulance</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>47 Commando 1943-45</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>consultant paediatrician,Dundee Royal Infirmary</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>senior lecturer,University of St Andrews (Professor)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Eastern Hospital,Leith 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Western General Hospital,Edinburgh</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>President of the Britsih Paediatric Association</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "</em><a href="https://amzn.to/2Xv4Cmk" target="_blank"><em>From Omaha to the Scheldt:The Story of 47 RM Commando</em></a><em>" (2000)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Isobel Fernback 1942 (died 2012) (3 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 14.8.2013</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-forfar.20321/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20321-2513c26ed1101f6498b3ee16c5054177.jpg?1591400746" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-forfar.17908/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/17/17908-cd152b5b94a7998fb05a15beb5c13f00.jpg?1591400120" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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