SOE Steer, George Lowther

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Steer​

• FORENAME

George Lowther​

• UNIT

SOE India (Field Propaganda Unit)​

• RANK

T/Lieutenant Colonel​

• NUMBER

152641​

• DATE OF DEATH

25th December 1944​

• AGE

35​

• GRAVESITE

Rangoon Memorial,Myanmar Face 19​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Intelligence Corps​

born 22.11.1909 Cambridge,East London,Cape Colony,South Africa​

son of Bernard Augustine and Emma Cecilia Armitage (nee Nutt) Steer,East London,Cape Colony,South Africa​

husband of Barbara Esme (nee Barton) Steer,Fulham,London (married 14.7.1939) (1908-88) (2 children)​

educated St Andrew's Preparatory School,Grahamstown,South Africa​

educated Winchester College 1923-28​

graduated Christ Church,Oxford​

journalist with South African Cape Argus​

journalist with Yorkshire Post​

special correspondent for The Times in Ethiopia 1935-36 and Spain 1937​

journalist with Daily Telegraph 1939​

commissioned Intelligence Corps (A/Captain) June 1940​

SOE Field Propaganda Unit,India January 1943-44​

Mention in Despatches 3 times​

married (first) Margarita de Herrero y Hassett 4.5.1936 (died 29.1.1937 London)​

killed when jeep overturned Fagu,West Bengal,India​

buried Rungamuttee tea estate 26.12.1944​

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