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Geoffrey Hallowes

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headquarters. He assisted the Free French forces by arranging a drop of arms, assisting them to liberate French villages, and encouraging them to prevent the Germans from withdrawing across the
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to Malaya was destroyed. When Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942, Hallowes joined Major "Nick" Nicholson to form one of two pairs of officers who were sent to carry the order to
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to join an SOE "Jedburgh" team. 94 of these three-member teams, with one British or American officer, one French officer and a
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He retired from the board of IDV in 1983, and died in 2006, aged 88, and is buried with his wife at Burvale Cemetery,
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to arrive in the south of France on 24 August 1944, where they were met by American SOE operative
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Hallowes became a staff captain in Bombay in May 1942, but volunteered to join SOE. He joined a
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against Japan in 1942. His unit was one of the last to escape into Singapore before the
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In March 2008 a cache of arms was discovered during a house-clearance in a property in
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in 1962, and the first chairman of the newly created IDV Europe in 1972.
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Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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and joined the family wine importing company. He was co-founding
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Director of Twiss, Browning & Hallowes Wine Importers and
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Back in Britain in September 1944, Hallowes joined SOE's
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as belonging to Hallowes, before being donated to the
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Hallowes and Giese travelled to 14: 618:Halfpenny, Martin (12 May 2010). 482:pistols – were identified at the 476:Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless 232:champagne, and Aileen Macleod of 478:and German 9 mm Navy Model 106: 86: 332:, earmarked for assignments in 324:, and became a member of SOE's 278:to garrisons on the islands of 599:. London, England. 10 May 2010 397:for his activities in France. 371:He and his team travelled via 1: 702:Alumni of Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz 255:, but left without a degree. 463:submachine gun, British .38 455:. The weapons – an American 364:and radio operator Sergeant 206:Special Operations Executive 148:Special Operations Executive 687:Gordon Highlanders officers 467:revolver, and American .45 733: 557:. hallowesgenealogy.co.uk 534:. hallowesgenealogy.co.uk 511:. hallowesgenealogy.co.uk 488:Gordon Highlanders Museum 202:Geoffrey MacLeod Hallowes 174:with Bronze Palm (France) 25:Geoffrey MacLeod Hallowes 677:People educated at Aldro 530:Armstrong, G.K. 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Kensington
Walton-on-Thames
Hersham
United Kingdom
British Army
Captain
Service number
Gordon Highlanders
Special Operations Executive
World War II
Mention in Dispatches
Croix de Guerre
Odette Sansom
International Distillers & Vintners
Special Operations Executive
Second World War
Odette Sansom
Kensington
Dry Monopole
Adelaide
Aldro
prep school
Eastbourne
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
Jesus College, Cambridge
Second World War
Gordon Highlanders
Malaya
causeway
ceasefire

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