SBS Lunn, Eric John Alfred (Sally)

Devil's Brigade
By Robert H. Adleman, George Walton

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Lunn
  • FORENAME
Eric John Alfred (Sally)
  • UNIT
No 2 SBS
  • RANK
Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
198819
  • AWARD
Military Cross and bar, Mention in Despatches
  • PLACE
Mediterranean
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Artillery
London Gazette
M.C. 17.2.1944 (for Oran 1942)
MinD 27.4.1944 (Greece)
bar to M.C. 28.9.1944 (Cephalonia 1944)
2 SBS 1942-45 (Lt - Major)
born 14.5.1910
educated Magdalen College, Oxford
employed by Lloyds Bank, France
escaped Monte Carlo as crewman on MV Sister Anne 1940
enlisted R.A. June 1940
served with Field Regiments
qualified as parachutist 1943
2 SBS
Control Commission 1946
Foreign Office 1950
Chartered Consolidated 1967-76 (retired)
retired to France and later Johannesburg, South Africa
married Hilda Robertson 1934 (dissolved 1947) (1 son)
married Lowyn Pritchard 1947 (died 1970) (1 daughter)
married Claudia Gaye 1977 (dissolved 1979)
died 1990s age 85
London Gazette 36486, 25th April 1944, Page 1928 (MiD North Africa)
 
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