SOE Richards, Francis Brooks

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Richards ​

• FORENAME

Francis Brooks ​

• UNIT

SOE ​

• RANK

Lieutenant + Lieutenant Commander ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Distinguished Service Cross and bar,Mention in Despatches,etc ​

• PLACE

North Africa 1942 (DSC) France 1943 (bar DSC) Corsica 1944 (MiD) ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve​

born 18.7.1918​

educated Stowe​

educated Magdalene College,Cambridge​

joined RNVR 1939​

HMS Sevra (sunk November 1940) (Mention in Despatches)​

SOE 1941​

shipment of agents and arms to Brittany,vessel "Mutin" (later operated out of Gibraltar)​

Op.Brandon,North Africa 1942 (DSC)​

Liaison work with French Resistance,South of France 1943 (bar to DSC)​

Head of French Section SOE Algiers 1943​

awarded Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre (France) for above​

Resistance group,Corsica 1944 (Mention in Despatches)​

joined Royal Naval Reserve 1945​

British Embassy,Paris 1945-47 (to wind up SOE ops in France)​

Foreign Office 1948-1978​

CMG 1963​

KCMK 1976​

married Hazel Williams 1941 (died 2000)​

father-in-law LtCol.Stanley Price Williams,Indian Army also served SOE​

died 13.9.2002​

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