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MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
By Keith Jeffery
Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative
By Peter Wilkinson
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 35358" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Rice </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Geoffrey </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R. </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>141707 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Flying Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London Gazette 16.11.1943 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 4.1.1917</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RAF 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 RC 16.1.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>8 ITW 14.6.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Arnold Scheme 31.7.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Canada 25.8.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31 PD 2.11.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Maxwell AFB 9.1.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pilot Officer 20.2.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31 PD 11.3.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 PRC 29.3.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>14 (P) AFU 9.6.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>19 OTU 14.7.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>57 Squadron 20.2.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>617 Squadron 26.3.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer 20.8.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award DFC</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lancaster DV398</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Liege (Cockerill Steel Works)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>hit by flak and broke up over Merbes-le-Chateau,Hainaut,Belgium (20.12.1943)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>boke his wrist,evaded until POW April 1944 Brussels</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flight Lt 20.1.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>returned to UK 10.5.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pilot course (refresher) 6.8.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21 AFU 13.11.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>13 OTU 23.7.1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21 Squadron 15.1.1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>released 3.7.1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Died November 1981 Somerset</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-rice.8213/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8213-03fa8ca8e1eafa26a6a6c7b2eec7d2fb.jpg?1591389222" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-rice.18571/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/18/18571-eea0e19a96b3828b4227c3991c8ede3a.jpg?1591400297" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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