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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29999" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Yeo-Thomas </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Forest Frederick Edward (Tommy) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RF Section SOE </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flight Lieutenant + Wing Commander </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>89215 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>George Cross,Military Cross and bar,Commander of Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr),etc </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France 1944</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.6.1902 45 Balcombe Street,Marylebone,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of John Yeo and Daisy Ethel (nee Burrows) Thomas,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Dieppe Naval College</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Lycee Condorcet,Paris until 1914</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>dispatch rider,US Army 1917</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>secretary to the Fashion House of Molyneux</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RAFVR 1939 (Sgt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>radar training</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned October 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>308 Squadron (Intelligence Officer)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE February 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RF Section</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>dropped in France February 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>arrested Paris</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Buchenwald Concentration Camp</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped - recaptured</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Stalag XX-B</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped April 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>also awarded Cross of Merit (Poland)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>representative,Federation of British Industries,Paris 1950</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>first marriage ended prewar (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Barbara Joan Dean</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 26.2.1964 3 Rue des Eaux,Paris,France</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Brookwood Cemetery,Surrey </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-yeo-thomas.15775/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/15/15775-305188993f870176ed64a0e202ab0be7.jpg?1591399517" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-yeo-thomas.69/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/0/69-01fdae19dec29b9c65b374042135405c.jpg?1591382940" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-yeo-thomas.4808/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/4/4808-79020913903dbfcb3c4fb51c617bed4b.jpg?1591384131" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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