SOE Hervey-Bathurst, Benjamin Alexander Frederick

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Hervey-Bathurst
  • FORENAME
Benjamin Alexander Frederick
  • UNIT
Force 136 SOE
  • RANK
T/Major
  • NUMBER
165014
  • AWARD
Mention in Despatches (twice)
  • PLACE
Far East 1944-45
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Grenadier-Guards
born 27.3.1920
son of Sir Frederick Edward William,5th Bt and Katharine Mary Delicia (nee Dick-Cunyngham) Hervey-Bathurst,Eastnor Castle,Ledbury,Herefordshire
educated Eton College
graduated Trinity College,Cambridge 1940 (BA)
commissioned 2Lt 21.12.1940
WIA
Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire 1967
award O.B.E. 1985
married Hon. Elizabeth Violet Virginia Cocks 28.2.1947 (died 30.11.1986) (2 sons James and George)
married Anne Garnier 1992
died 18.10.1997

 
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