- SURNAME
Gabriel
- FORENAME
John Parton
- UNIT
SOE (Middle East)
- RANK
A/Captain
- NUMBER
117411
- DATE OF DEATH
24th February 1941
- AGE
30
- GRAVESITE
Brookwood Memorial,Surrey,England Panel 12 Column 3
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Berkshire Regiment
born 13.1.1911 Horsell,Surrey
son of Christopher Burton and Elsie Eugenie (nee Parton) Gabriel (married 10.6.1899)
husband of Clothilde (nee Ward) Gabriel,St Pancras,London
educated Charterhouse School (OTC)
interior decorator and photographer
England International athlete
fluent in German and French,good in Russian
FS Police (Private)
commissioned 2Lt General List 2.2.1940 from 168 OCTU
No 3 Military and Air Mission,France (Intelligence Officer) 1940
No 1 GHQ Liaison Regiment
transferred to Royal Berkshire Regiment 27.7.1940
SOE 13.2.1941
A/Captain 20.2.1941
destined for Colonel Pollock's staff,Cairo
drowned on SS Jonathan Holt in North Atlantic
DATE OF DEATH:
24-Feb-1941
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