- SURNAME
Noel-Baker
- FORENAME
Francis Edward
- UNIT
SOE Liaison Officer to Greek Resistance
- RANK
Captain
- NUMBER
185784
- AWARD
Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Middle East 1942-45
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Intelligence Corps
born 7.1.1920 Kensington,London
son of Philip John and Irene (nee Noel) Noel-Baker (married 12.6.1915)
father became 1st Baron Noel-Baker 1977
educated Westminster School
educated King's College,Cambridge
43 Royal Tank Regiment,RAC (Trooper) September 1939
RAC OCTU,near Aldershot (Cadet)
commissioned 10.5.1941 2Lt Intelligence Corps
attached Lancashire Fusiliers
Political Warfare Executive (PWE)
SOE Liaison Officer to Greek Resistance November 1942 - January 1944
attached British Embassy,Washington,D.C.,USA
SOE Middle East and HQ Palestine November 1944 - 1945
Labour MP 1945-50 and 1955-69
Social Democratic Party 1981
Conservative Party 1984
author of Greece:The Whole Story (1946)
married Ann Lavinia Saunders 1947 (divorced 1956)
married Barbara Sonander 1957 (died 2004)
5 sons and 1 daughter from both marriages
died 25.9.2009 Euboea,Greece
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