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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 59708" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>van der Post</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Laurens Jan</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Special Mission 43,Java</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>EC 148089</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander 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>Java 1942</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Intelligence Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Laurens Jan van der Post</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 13.12.1906 Philippolis, Orange River County, South Africa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>originally Lourens Jan van der Post</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Christian Willem Hendrik and Lammie van der Post</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Grey College, Bloemfontein 1918</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>reporter, The Natal Advertiser, Durban 1925</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>reporter, Cape Times 1929</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>novelist</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>dairy farmer, Gloucestershire, England</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>British Army May 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned January 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>East Africa (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gideon Force, Abyssinia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Dutch East Indies</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Special Mission 43,Java</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW 20.4.1942 Java</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired from Army 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded C.B.E. 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>postwar author, political adviser, educator, journalist, explorer, etc</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Marjorie Edith Wendt 8.3.1928 Bridport, Dorset (died 1995) (divorced 1949) (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Ingaret Giffard 13.10.1949 (died 1997)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 16.12.1996 London, England</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>ashes buried Philippolis, South Africa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-van-der-post.31426/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/31/31426-4516eae2d1f52335d3dbbe2a29d27535.jpg?1591435723" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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