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The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 32486" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Verity </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Hugh Beresford </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>161 Squadron (RAFVR) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>72507 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order and bar.Distinguished Flying Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1943 </em>(DFC) 1944 (DSO and bar)</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 6.4.1918 Jamaica</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Cheltenham</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Queen's College,Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Oxford University Air Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>teacher,Northern Ireland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RAFVR</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>608 Squadron September 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>252 Squadron February 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>29 Squadron autumn 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ 11 Group</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ Fighter Command</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>161 Squadron November 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Air Liaison (Ops) Section S.O.E.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Army Staff College,Quetta (directing staff)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>541 Squadron (C.O.) 1948</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Central Fighter Establishment (Wing Commander Weapons) 1949-51</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Joint Services Staff College 1951</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Wing Commander Flying,RAF Wahn 1954</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>96 Squadron (C.O.) 1955</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Air Ministry (bomber ops staff)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CENTO HQ,Turkey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.O. RAF Akrotiri,Cyprus </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Air Ministry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pilot Officer 8.11.1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer 8.5.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flight Lieutenant (WS) 8.5.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader (Temporary) 1.6.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader (WS) 14.5.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader 1.9.1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Wing Commander 1.7.1951</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Group Captain 1.7.1958</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 2.6.1965</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>also awarded Officier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur,Croix de Guerre with guild palm (Fr)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "</em><a href="https://amzn.to/3kC7iaO" target="_blank"><em>We Landed by Moonlight</em></a><em>" (1978)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Audrey Stokes 1940 (5 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 14.11.2001</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/h-verity.4842/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/4/4842-5b695308c36d75323f06446a9e75b1a9.jpg?1591384143" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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