SOE Millar, George Reid

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Millar ​

• FORENAME

George Reid ​

• UNIT

F Section SOE ​

• RANK

T/Captain ​

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• NUMBER
  180350

• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr) ​

• PLACE

France 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 2 Motor Bn Rifle Brigade​

born 19.9.1910​

son of Thomas A. and Mary Reid Morton Millar​

educated Loretto School and St John's College,Cambridge​

journalist with Daily Telegraph and Daily Express prewar​

commissioned Rifle Brigade​

WIA and POW June 1942 North Africa​

escaped 1943​

award M.C.​

SOE 1944-45​

codename Emile​

Chancellor Circuit (organiser)​

married Annette Stockwell prewar (dissolved)​

married Isabel Paske-Smith 1945​

farmer and author postwar​

autobiography "Road to Resistance" 1979​

died 15.1.2005​

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