SOE Norman, Mark Richard

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Norman​

• FORENAME

Mark Richard​

• UNIT

SOE Greece​

• RANK

T/Lieutenant Colonel​

• NUMBER

88581​

• AWARD

Officer of the Order of the British Empire,Medal of Freedom with bronze palm (US)​

• PLACE

Middle East​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Artillery​

born 3.4.1910 London​

son of Ronald Collet and Lady Florence Sibell (nee Bridgeman) Norman​

educated Eton College​

educated Magdalen College,Oxford​

banker,Gallahers 1930​

banker,Lazard Brothers 1932​

enlisted Hertfordshire Yeomanry 1939​

commissioned Royal Artillery​

SOE (recruiting Italian POWs in Egypt)​

WIA Greece 1941​

Assistant Military Secretary,War Cabinet 1945​

Potsdam Conference 1946​

managing director,Lazards 1960-75 (chairman 1963-75)​

chairman,Wiggins Teape​

C.B.E. 1977​

resided Moore Place,Much Hadham,Hertfordshire​

married Helen McGill Bryan 1933 (5 children)​

died December 1994 Bishop's Stortford,Hertfordshire​

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