SOE Maclean, Fitzroy Hew Royle

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Maclean ​

• FORENAME

Fitzroy Hew Royle ​

• UNIT

Force 133 ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Croix de Guerre (Fr),Order of Kutuzov (Russia),Order of the Partisan Star (Yugoslavia) ​

• PLACE

Yugoslavia 1943-45 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Cameron Highlanders​

born 11.3.1911 Egypt​

educated Eton College​

educated King's College,Cambridge University​

Diplomatic Service 1933-41​

Conservative Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1941​

Cameron Highlanders 1941 (Private + commission)​

L Detachment SAS 1942 (Lt)​

SOE Liaison Mission to Yugoslavia 1943-45​

C.B.E. (London Gazette 28.9.1944) (Major)​

Brigadier​

Major General 1947​

War Office 1954-57​

Member of Parliament 1959-74​

created First Baronet of Strachur and Glensluain 1957​

Sir Fitzroy H.R. Maclean of Dunconnel,1st Baronet​

married Veronica Nell Fraser-Phipps 1946 (2 sons and stepson and step daughter)​

wife was widow of Lt Alan Phipps,R.N. who died at Leros 1943​

died 15.6.1996 Hertfordshire​

buried village church,Strachur,Argyll ​

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