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"C": Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 35468" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Philo </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gordon Charles George </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SIS </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Civilian </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1970 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 8.1.1920</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Haberdashers' Aske's School,Hampstead</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Wadham College,Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>called up 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>West African Frontier Force,Gold Coast 1942-43</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>trained as parachutist 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded M.C. for Normandy 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>demobilised 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Sorbonne,Paris</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>teacher,Wadham College,Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>teacher,St Antony's</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SIS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Turkey 1954-58</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London 1961-63</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>training officer</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>liaison officer to Malaysian Government</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>seconded to Diplomatic Service (Consul-General,Hanoi)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SIS HQ 1970</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award C.M.G. 1970 (for Hanoi)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Principal Staff Officer to the Head of Service 1973-75</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1978</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>part-time with Civil Service selection boards 1978-1990</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>wrote history of SIS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>novelist under name Charles Forsyte</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Vicky Galsworthy 1952 (died 1986) (no children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 24.1.2009</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-philo.8455/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8455-fa5404314c25deff3c09ee494eaa0f0b.jpg?1591389286" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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