SIS Haselden, John Edward (Jock)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Haselden ​

• FORENAME

John Edward (Jock) ​

• UNIT

MI(R) (Military Intelligence Research) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

147097 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

14th September 1942 ​

• AGE

39 ​

• GRAVESITE

Alamein Memorial,Egypt Column 85 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Intelligence Corps​

born 10.8.1903 Ramleh,near Alexandria,Egypt​

son of Henry Ernest and Maria Ester Angela (nee Cazzani) Haselden​

father English mother Italian​

husband of late Nadia Ida Marie (nee Szymonski-Lubicz) Haselden (died 1936)​

married 1931 (son Gerald Ernest born 1932)​

educated King's School,Canterbury,Kent​

spoke fluent Italian,French and Arabic​

employed Anderson,Clayton and Company,US cotton-house,El Minya,Egypt​

Libyan Arab Force​

G (R) (GHQ MEF) 13.7.1940​

MI (R) (Western Desert Liaison Officer,HQ 8th Army)​

award M.C. and bar,Mention in Despatches​

KIA Tobruk (Op. Agreement) ​

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[hovevzion]

John Edward (Jock) Haselden

John Haselden is a real hero. I am astonished from his braveness, and ofcourse I thanks him and all the British, that won in the El Alamein and Tubrok battles , so we in Israel - Then Palestine - stay safe from the Nazis.
I would like to know if his mother Ester and his wife Ida , were Jewish women , because they have a Jewish names - Cazzani, Szymonski-Lubicz
Thanks

 

[gerald haselden]

John Edward (Jock) Haselden

Thank you for your kind comments. Ester, who was my grandmother, was an Italian Christian. Nadia Ida, who was my mother, was Polish/Italian and a Roman Catholic. I am interested to know that both Cazzani and Szymonski-Lubicz are typically Jewish names. Perhaps their ancestors were Jewish but I have no knowledge of that.