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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 49093" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Hood</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ernest Hugo Meggeson</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>S.O.E. Jedburgh Team Paul + JTs Burma</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Major</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>70595</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order,Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944 (MiD,CdG) Burma 1945 (DSO)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Somerset Light Infantry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.8.1915 Burnby,Yorkshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father KIA September 1915 Western Front</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Wellington College (completed OTC 1933) 1929-33</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Emmanuel College,Cambridge 1934-36</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>gamesmaster/assistant schoolmaster,St Dunstan's School,Somerset May 1937 - August 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Supplementary Reserve Officer's Commission (SRO) February 1937</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Somerset Light Infantry November 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE July 1943 (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Cairo HQ 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Yugoslav Branch September 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>JT Paul 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>codename Shropshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Burma 1945 (Force 136)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Teams Cheetah,Zebra and Mongoose March 1945 - 4.12.1945</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Lieutenant Colonel 1945</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">housemaster,Scarborough College postwar</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">died 1.8.1968</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-hood.18212/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/18/18212-70922b477faee9a17bef0579683e46c1.jpg?1591400201" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/h-hood.21439/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/21/21439-4e23afd808c85e368ea6c2ffbd027e57.jpg?1591401036" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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