SBS Newby, George Eric

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Newby
  • FORENAME
George Eric
  • UNIT
No 1 SBS
  • RANK
Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
Military Cross
  • PLACE
Mediterranean 1941
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
born 6.12.1919 London
educated St Paul's School
apprentice seaman in civilian life
enlisted London Scottish 1939
joined SBS 1941
POW August 1942 Sicily
liberated 1945
married Wanda 1946 in Florence,Italy (2 children)
author "Love and War in the Apennines" (1971)
author "A Traveller's Life" (1982)
travel writer postwar
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1975
award C.B.E. 1994
died 20.10.2006
 
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