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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 31770" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leigh Fermor </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Patrick Michael (Paddy) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Force 133 SOE </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant + Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>143448 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order,Officer of the Order of the British Empire </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Crete 1943 (OBE) Crete 1944 (DSO) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Intelligence Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 11.2.1915 London (or India - "Times" obituary)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Sir Lewis and Eileen (nee Ambler) Leigh Fermor</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated King's School,Canterbury</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>travel author prewar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted Irish Guards 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RMA Sandhurst</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Corps 1940 (Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE (Greek Liaison Officer)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>postwar British Council (Deputy Director,British Institute,Athens)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Hon.Joan Elizabeth Rayner (nee Eyres Monsell) 1968 (died 2003) (no children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>daughter of Viscount Monsell</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Knighted February 2004</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 10.6.2011 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-leigh-fermor.2193/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2193-b08c602251d66f70b297ad43da74cdde.jpg?1591383433" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-leigh-fermor.11333/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/11/11333-70496b1b02903e2f8df3f1fdcbafb1f4.jpg?1591390064" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-leigh-fermor.13826/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/13/13826-775fa6acdf5c2a7d7cde26f0772fd6d8.jpg?1591398994" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/p-leigh-fermor.13827/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/13/13827-f2dc25326f8694fc62a760b88e051798.jpg?1591398994" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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