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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31986" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Halestrap </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arthur </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MI6 (Diplomatic Wireless Service) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Civilian </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>Member of the Order of the British Empire </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1963 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 8.9.1898 Southampton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>telegraphist,Southampton Post Office</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Engineers (Sapper) September 1916</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>46th (South Midland) Divisional Signal Company,Royal Engineers January 1918</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>demobilised 1920</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined Marconi postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned Royal Corps of Signals 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>S.O.E. (Chief Signal Officer,Grendon Underwood) 1942-45</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Allied Control Commission 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Diplomatic Wireless Service postwar (retired 1970 age 72)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded Legion d'Honneur (France) 1988 (for WW1)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>predeased by his wife,son and daughter</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>his son John,RAF Navigator was KIA 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 1.4.2004 Kings Sutton </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-halestrap.2721/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2721-53301cd66846c87a7e67d4b564045c99.jpg?1591383570" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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