SOE Turnbull, Ronald Bruce

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Turnbull ​

• FORENAME

Ronald Bruce ​

• UNIT

Organiser of Danish Section SOE,Stockholm,Sweden ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Officer of the Order of the British Empire,Medal of Freedom (US),Knight of the Dannebrog (Denmark) ​

• PLACE

Sweden 1940-45 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 29.5.1914 Edinburgh​

educated Cargilfield School,Cramond​

educated Fettes College​

spent one summer as English lecturer,Copenhagen University,Denmark​

educated Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge​

editor of student newspaper Varsity​

journalist,London Evening Standard​

stood (unsuccessfully) as Liberal MP,Bethnal Green,London​

broadcaster for BBC​

Press Attache,British Legation,Copenhagen October 1939​

Foreign Office,London 1939-40​

married Maria Thereza do Rio Branco in London 22.5.1940 (died 29.9.1945)(2 children)​

SOE 1940-45​

Danish Section 30.9.1940-1945​

Foreign Office 1945​

Chairman,British Chamber of Commerce,Brazil 1954​

commercial translator 1970s​

married Maria Helena Arantes Negrao December 1946 (died 1982) (5 children)​

engaged to Ivone Rodrigues Pinto 1970s (2 sons)​

died 2.3.2004 Pencaitland,East Lothian,Scotland​

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