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How to Be a Spy: The World War II SOE Training Manual
By Dundurn Group
Merrill's Marauders
By Gavin Mortimer
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 59757" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Girsham</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>James Andrew Vivian (Jack)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ (jungle guide/lead scout/interpreter)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bronze Star</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma 1944</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.1.1897 Pegu,Burma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of James and Minnie Girsham</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father born Secunderabad,India,mother Rangoon,Burma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Customs Department,Burmese Government</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (manager in Forest Department)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Elephant Control Division,Burmese Game Department</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Northern Kachin Levies (2Lt - Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merrills Marauders 18.2.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>474 Infantry Regiment (HQ) 1944-45</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>American Typhus Commission 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burmese Army 1946-49</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>big game hunter,Assam,India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married 1st wife (1 son) (both died 1942)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Charmaine in Calcutta</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Calcutta,India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>settled in New Barnet,Hertfordshire,England August 1967</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>autobiography </em><a href="https://amzn.to/2BKLcCn" target="_blank"><em>Burma Jack</em></a><em> (1971 with Lowell Thomas)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 9.3.1980 New Barnet,Hertfordshire,England</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-girsham.31740/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/31/31740-c46b61fcba3ebadafef02a2f0052b9f9.jpg?1591435936" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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