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A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection
By Colonel Bernd Horn
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 30227" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Stevenson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>William DeVore</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Raider Bn (HQ) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain / Major</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>0-6265</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Navy Cross (Captain), Legion Of Merit (Major)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Guadalcanal 1942 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 23.05.1916, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Titusville, Pennsylvania</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Edgar Taft Stevenson (1878-1956)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Ferne Frick (nee Braddock) Stevenson (1885-1951)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1941 married wife Martha Seep (nee Fleming) Stevenson (1919-1988)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>4 children</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended Titusville elementary schools</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended Dartmouth College (graduated 1939 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted U.S. Marine Corps Reserves 24.04.1936</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>08.1939 commissioned second lieutenant</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged 25.02.1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>associate publisher of Titusville Herald (started 1946)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>02.1950 promoted Lieutenant Colonel</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>01.1958 retired Colonel U.S. Marine Corps Reserves (2 periods of active duty post WW2)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 04.06.1974 (Aged 58), Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>buried St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-stevenson.35711/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35711-2566410ff42a27ba5e8c7d6a83551f53.jpg?1627582890" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-stevenson-obituary.35712/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35712-6422ccfc22cef064802b337905b7a31b.jpg?1627583833" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-stevenson-grave.35710/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35710-ee80eb3fe2239964298c9475fdaacd6a.jpg?1627582889" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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