SOE Hastings, Stephen Lewis Edmondstone

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Hastings ​

• FORENAME

Stephen Lewis Edmondstone ​

• UNIT

1 Special Force SOE ​

• RANK

Captain (A/Major) ​

• NUMBER

23983 ​

• AWARD

Military Cross ​

• PLACE

Italy 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 2 Bn Scots Guards​

born 4.5.1921 Peterborough​

brought up Southern Rhodesia​

educated Eton​

RMC Sandhurst 1939​

Scots Guards 1939 (2 Lt)​

1 SAS 1942-43​

Mention in Despatches​

SOE 1943-45​

HQ British troops Austria 1946-48​

SIS (MI6) 1948-60​

Member of Parliament for Mid-Bedfordshire 1960-83​

Knighted 1983​

married Harriet Tomlin 1948 (dissolved 1971) (2 children)​

married Elizabeth,Lady Naylor-Leyland 1975 (died 1997)​

autobiography "The Drums of Memory" 1995​

died 9.1.2005​

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