- SURNAME
McLean
- FORENAME
John David Ruari McDowell Hardie
- UNIT
R.N.V.R. COPP 7
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Cross, Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Far East 1943-44
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 10.6.1917 Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire
educated Dragon School and Eastbourne College
typographer in civilian life
MiD,CdeG(Fr) liaison officer French sub Rubis 1943
DSC Arakan 1943
MiD Op.Frippery,North Sumatra 1944
typographer and graphic designer postwar
war memoir "Half Seas Under" 2001
C.B.E. 1973
married Antonia Maxwell Carlisle 1945 (died 1995) (3 children)
died 27.3.2006
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