John Tregidga SOE and MI6

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Jane Jantet

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Does anyone have any information on a JOHN TREGIDGA, who was in MI6 and SOE? He is cited by the Imperial War Museum as being the last man to see alive MAJOR FRANK THOMPSON who was with SOE and Phantom during the second world war, based in Cairo. Frank Thompson was killed on an exercise called Clardiges to infiltrate Bulgaria from Serbia, in April 1944, which went drastically wrong. The information is needed for a biography by Professor Peter J Conradi of Frank Thompson, who was elder brother to well-known historian E P Thompson. The only information we have on John Tregidga is that he was probaby a South African, as his last known address was there. MI6 files are closed in perpetuity, but if we can prove that he is dead then his SOE file could be opened. Any information, of his death or of his relatives and descendants, would be most gratefully received. Jane Jantet, Research Assistant to Professor P J Conradi
 
Apologies for the late reply, I have just seen this thred: John Arthur Tregidga was my uncle: My mother's younger brother. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa 31st December 1920, and died there in 1995 - I am not sure of the exact date.He married Betty Estment after the war, and they had four children: John Patrick, Margaret (Now Margaret Dednam), Anne (now Anne Schuurman-Steckhoven) and Alan. As far as I know they are all still living in or near Cape Town. I have lived outside South Africa most of my life ( I live in Ireland now), so I am not that close to them, and don't have their current contact details. John Patrick and Alan both went to "Bishops" - the Diocesan College School in Rondebosch, and should be contactable via the school. I do not know much of his wartime exploits - he never talked about it. But I do know he was in the SAS, was parachuted (my mother had his parachute!) into Yugoslavia and fought there with Tito and the Partisans for two years. I had no idea he was connected with MI6, and of course would be most interested in learning more, as would my cousins, I am quite sure. With kind regards, Alan Cookson (alan.cookson@gmail.com)
 
Funny as I have been gathering stacks of unpublished material on Frank Thompson. Will be interesting to read Peter Conradi's book on Frank.
 
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