SOE Peacock, Edgar Henry William

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Peacock
  • FORENAME
Edgar Henry William
  • UNIT
Force 136 SOE
  • RANK
Major (T/ Lieutenant Colonel)
  • NUMBER
318622
  • AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Military Cross and bar,Mention in Despatches
  • PLACE
Burma 1944 (MC) 1945 (DSO,barMC,MiD)
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 54 Nyasaland Battery,Royal Artillery
parent unit General List in London Gazette (error ?)
born 11.2.1898 Nagpur,India
game warden in Burma and Burma Forest Service (16 years)
farmer,Southern Rhodesia
ranks,Rhodesian Regiment and East African Engineers
commissioned October 1941
intelligence officer,India
SOE November 1943
P Force November 1943 - May 1944
Team Otter (part of Op.Character) February-September 1945
author of book on Burmese game
married Geraldine
 
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