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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 44944" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Smith-Cumming</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sir George Mansfield</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of SIS (MI6)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain</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>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>14th June 1923</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>64</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>St. Leonard Churchyard, Bursledon, England, UK.</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1.4.1859 India (as Mansfield George Smith)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Colonel John Thomas, RE (1805-1882) and Maria Sarah (nee Tyser) Smith (1816-1887), Foellent House, Kent</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided 1 Merbury Road, Kensington, London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Navy 1878-1909</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RN College, Dartmouth</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Britannia (training)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Bellerophon 1877 (Acting Sub Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired list 1885</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>recalled to Naval Intelligence 1898-1909 (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SSB/SIS 1909-23</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Secret Service Bureau (SSB) (Director of Foreign Section) 1909</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SIS (MI6) (Head of wartime MI1c)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief of SIS (CSS)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards C.B. 1914, K.C.M.G. 1919</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Dora Cloete 1885 (predeceased him)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Leslie Marian (May) Valiant 1889 (1 son Alastair Mansfield Smith Cumming 1889-1914)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>changed his name to Smith-Cumming 1889</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died before due for retirement</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died Kensington, London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-m-smith-cumming.1519/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/1/1519-f1b306952dfd24284fe22afc9a79c692.jpg?1655195060" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-smith-cumming-grave.37011/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37011-f3d2ede16a1ae067245c0a57b2390b7c.jpg?1655195598" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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