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363:, Austria. On arrival at this camp, Macpherson and a New Zealander, Captain Colin Norman Armstrong managed to hide from the Germans whenever they tried to take a roll call, and obtained assistance from the French held in a different part of the camp, escaping in French uniforms on 21 September, also accompanied by a Captain A. A. Yeoman. They managed to recross the Italian border, and were intending to make their way into Yugoslavia and link up with Allied-supported partisans there. Unfortunately, Armstrong became separated, and on 26 September Macpherson and Armstrong ran into a German patrol near 121: 101: 434:"Just as I arrived I heard an excited young Frenchman saying to his boss, 'Chef, chef, there's a French officer and he's brought his wife!". "Their mistaking me for a woman wearing a skirt was an easy error to make." He later explained, "As a British officer parachuted into a resistance situation...your only authority was your own personality, which I had tried to reinforce with my kilt and a degree of flamboyance". 328:, one asked MacPherson to demonstrate how his Colt Automatic worked, he did so "by putting in a spare magazine still had, and then held the party up with the loaded weapon". Unfortunately, he then suffered a severe attack of cramp, and was recaptured and placed in solitary confinement. He made one further escape attempt before being taken to Italy in a destroyer, and held in a prisoner of war camp at 411:. Under this operation three-man units were to be dropped into occupied Europe to carry out sabotage and guerrilla warfare, acting as a high-profile focus for the local resistance. His training lasted from January to March 1944, at the end of which he was promoted to Major and placed in charge of team Quinine. His team members were a French lieutenant, 517:. Macpherson was informed by another Jedburgh leader Captain Arthur Cox that the Major General wanted to negotiate surrender. A meeting had already been held with the Americans, conducted by Lieutenant Samuel Magill, but it was felt that Germans were prevaricating, so another meeting was set up in a village in Allied hands. 520:
Unarmed and accompanied by a German doctor and a French officer, Macpherson was driven in a captured German Red Cross vehicle through miles of enemy-held territory, through machine gun fire, to the village's school house. Dressed in full Highland uniform complete with bonnet, he bluffed that he would
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As axis forces in the south of France were cut off by the Allied advance, Macpherson negotiated the surrender of two German units, the most notable being FK541. This was an assortment of Axis forces, totaling 23,000 men and while mainly second line soldiers it did include 7000 front line troops. It
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road. Macpherson realised that the best they could do was delay the division's progress by preparing a series of ambushes. During the night they mined the road and the surrounding trees. At the first ambush they blew the tracks off the leading armoured vehicle, thus blocking the road. Then, as the
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Over the course of the next two months Macpherson killed or captured many German troops and systematically blew apart bridges. He operated from caves and woodland areas with his radio operator. Under the mantle of Agent Quinine, he achieved an operation of some kind virtually every day, his
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When the Allied officers were interviewed by the press immediately after the surrender, Lieutenant Samuel Magill did the talking, but Macpherson, as trained, said nothing. Hence many histories credit this surrender solely due to the efforts of the US 83rd Infantry
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unleash heavy artillery and call on the RAF if the Germans did not surrender. The Major General agreed on condition his forces were allowed to keep their side arms until they were in safe custody of the US 83rd infantry division.
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as the "Kilted Killer". He caused so much damage to enemy military infrastructure, a bounty of 300,000 francs was placed upon his head. Three times he received the Croix de Guerre, the Military Cross, and the LĂ©gion d'honneur.
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on the other - infuriating the Nazis to the extent that they placed a 300,000 franc bounty on his head, describing him as "A bandit masquerading as a Scottish officer and extremely dangerous to the citizens of France".
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On one occasion when a German staff car was approaching a level crossing Macpherson booby-trapped the barrier arm so it crashed down on the vehicle, decapitating the local commandant and his driver.
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After the war he reverted to the rank of lieutenant and continued to serve in the Territorial Army with the Camerons. He was promoted back to captain on 1 September 1948, and awarded the
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Macpherson had enjoyed a successful business career, including periods variously as the Managing Director and Chairman of the Mallinson-Denny Group, as a director of Brooke Bond Group,
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the camp was taken over by German forces on 9 September 1943, and the prisoners transferred to German prisoner of war camps from 14 September when they were taken by road to
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To motivate the resistance unit, Macpherson decided on immediate action. On the next night (9 June) they demolished a railway bridge on the
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Germans began to work through the trees to outflank them, the resistance fighters brought down the trees and withdrew.
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and athletics and was also an international student athlete, representing the UK in the 1500 Meters at the
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In 1953 Macpherson married Jean Henrietta, the daughter of David Butler Wilson. She is a patroness of the
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from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 17 March 1992. In 1985/86 he served as Prime Warden of the
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In November 1944, Major Macpherson led Italian partisans in several major attacks on railways in
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from 1964 to 1967, and his efforts in support of the TA in general. He was a member of the
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Within a few days of returning to Great Britain, McPherson was instructed to report to
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Macpherson was part of a four-man team sent to reconnoitre beaches in preparation for
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On 7 October 2010, Macpherson's autobiography was published under the title,
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line. The following day they were contacted by two resistance fighters from
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His childhood home was Edgebrooke, in East Fettes Avenue, and he attended
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Das Reich. The march of the 2nd Panzer Division through France, June 1944
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on 20 June 1950. During this period (1947 to 1952) he was attached to
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high-profile presence – he brazenly toured the countryside in a black
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and one of his own brothers, Niall, was also raised to the peerage as
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on 1 July. Similar operations continued through July, and following
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in Pont Street, Knightsbridge, London, with the eulogy given by
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on 31 October 1961, and until 1 November 1964 he commanded the
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Beside his British decorations, he was also a Chevalier de la
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They then switched to attacking road and rail routes between
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Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War
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Macpherson's seat in the Highlands, Balival House, near
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were advancing towards the Normandy beachhead via the
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Index

CBE
MC**
TD
DL
Edinburgh
Scotland
United Kingdom
British Army
Colonel
CBE
MC**
TD
DL
British Army
Second World War
No. 11 Commando
French Resistance
Axis forces
Edinburgh
Baron Strathcarron
Baron Drumalbyn
G. P. S. (Phil) Macpherson
Newtonmore
Edinburgh Academy
prep school
Cargilfield
Barnton
Fettes College
Officers' Training Corps
Trinity College, Oxford

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