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Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
By Robert Lyman
I Was Only Sixteen
By Roland Griffiths-Marsh MM
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 51510" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Spooner</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Alexander Patrick (Pat)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A Force (MI9)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant (A/Captain)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>IA 1222</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Member of the Order of the British Empire</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Italy 1943-44</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 2 Bn 8th Gurkha Rifles,Indian Army</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1920 Simla,India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RMC Sandhurst September 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 22.10.1939 as 2Lt Unattached List,Indian Army</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Officers' Training School,Belgaum,India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Bn 8th Gurkha Rifles</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Middle East Intelligence School,Helwan,Egypt April 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Officer,20th Indian Infantry Brigade 16.5.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW 17.6.1942 near Tobruk</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped from Italy 11.9.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A Force (MI9) October 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>E Group (MI9) May 1944 - 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>No 2 War Crimes Investigation Unit December 1945-August 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Army Ordnance Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>H/Lt Colonel,Indian Army</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Corps (Captain A/Major 415742) 10.11.1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel 1951</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Head Office of Hudson's Bay Co.,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Midwest Manager,British Travel Association,Chicago,USA 1956-60</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>General Manager,British-American Chamber of Commerce,New York 1960</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Professional Director of Fundraising,England 1970-90 (retired)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Frances Dunlop 1951 (2 children Christopher and Caroline)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author of <a href="https://amzn.to/33ro2MU" target="_blank">"A Talent for Adventure"</a> (2012)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 4.10.2014</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>cremated Surrey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-spooner.19386/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/19/19386-539b0c29c99a526d0f1ef2518d8f2445.jpg?1591400503" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-spooner.19387/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/19/19387-607a9c5a0ee62594f5224034574e89f5.jpg?1591400504" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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