SOE Picchi, Fortunato

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Picchi
  • FORENAME
Fortunato
  • UNIT
SOE,attached 11 SAS Bn
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
3846154
  • DATE OF DEATH
6th April 1941
  • AGE
44
  • GRAVESITE
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial,Surrey,England Addenda Panel
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Army Service Corps (MT)
born 28.8.1896 Comeana Carmignano,Italy
resided with Mrs Florence Lantieri,175 Sussex Gardens,London
son of Giacomina (nee Pazzi) and late Ferdinand Picchi,Florence,Italy
64 Infantry Regiment,Italian Army November 1915 - December 1919
emigrated to England November 1921
returned to Italy
returned to England 1929
waiter,Fleming's Hotel,Half Moon Street,London
head waiter,Savoy Hotel,London (14 years)
enlisted RASC 1940
SOE 1940
alias Private Pierre Dupont
attached 11 SAS Bn
Op.Colossus (Tragino Aqueduct,Italy)
parachuted into Tragino Valley 10.2.1941
POW 12.2.1941
executed Fort Bravetta,Rome,Italy
 

DATE OF DEATH:

06-Apr-1941
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