SOE Yeo-Thomas, Forest Frederick Edward (Tommy)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Yeo-Thomas ​

• FORENAME

Forest Frederick Edward (Tommy) ​

• UNIT

RF Section SOE ​

• RANK

Flight Lieutenant + Wing Commander ​

• NUMBER

89215 ​

• AWARD

George Cross,Military Cross and bar,Commander of Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr),etc ​

• PLACE

France 1944​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve​

born 17.6.1902 45 Balcombe Street,Marylebone,London​

son of John Yeo and Daisy Ethel (nee Burrows) Thomas,London​

educated Dieppe Naval College​

educated Lycee Condorcet,Paris until 1914​

dispatch rider,US Army 1917​

secretary to the Fashion House of Molyneux​

RAFVR 1939 (Sgt)​

radar training​

commissioned October 1941​

308 Squadron (Intelligence Officer)​

SOE February 1942​

RF Section​

dropped in France February 1944​

arrested Paris​

Buchenwald Concentration Camp​

escaped - recaptured​

Stalag XX-B​

escaped April 1945​

also awarded Cross of Merit (Poland)​

representative,Federation of British Industries,Paris 1950​

first marriage ended prewar (2 children)​

married Barbara Joan Dean​

died 26.2.1964 3 Rue des Eaux,Paris,France​

Brookwood Cemetery,Surrey ​

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