- SURNAME
Menzies
- FORENAME
Stewart Graham
- UNIT
SIS (MI6) (Chief)
- RANK
Brigadier
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath,Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- PLACE
1943 (KCMG) 1951 (KCB)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 30.1.1890 London
son of John Graham and Susannah West (nee Wilson) Menzies
educated Eton and RMC Sandhurst
Grenadier Guards 1907
Life Guards 1908
General Staff Officer,France 1914-18
injured 1915 and honorably discharged as Brevet Major
award D.S.O.,M.C.
counter-intelligence section,B.E.F. 1916-18
Military Liaison Officer with SIS 1919 (32 years service)
Colonel 1932
retired from Life Guards 1939
Deputy Director of MI6 (SIS)
Head of SIS (C) 1939-52
awarded C.B. 1942
resigned as Major General 1952
married Lady Avice Ela Murial Sackville 28.11.1918 (divorced 1931)
married Pamela Thetis Beckett 1932 (died 1951) (1 daughter)
married Audrey Clara Lilian Latham
died 29.5.1968 London
awards K.C.B.,K.C.M.G.,D.S.O.,M.C.
biography :- "The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies,Spymaster to Winston Churchill" (Anthony Cave Brown) 1987
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