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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29338" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Almonds </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Edward (Gentleman Jim) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>L Detachment SAS + 1 SAS (D Squadron) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sergeant + Warrant Officer Second Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2655648 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Military Medal and bar,Croix de Guerre with silver star(Fr) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>North Africa 1941(MM) Escaper 1943 (bar) Normandy 1944 (CdeG) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 3 Bn Coldstream Guards and Army Air Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 6.8.1914 Stixwould,Lincolnshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Coldstream Guards 1932</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>8 Commando 1940-41</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>L Detachment SAS 1941-42 (Sgt)(MM)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA and POW September 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped September 1943 (bar to MM)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 SAS (D Squadron) 1944 (Staff Sgt + WOII)(CdeG)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 SAS (D Squadron) 1944-45 (2/Lt - Captain 333683)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son also SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 20.8.2005</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>biography:-</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"Gentleman Jim:The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS" W.L.Almonds (2001) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-almonds.1843/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1843-665b980b25bb818d3b929128d8aeae10.jpg?1591383344" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-almonds.1833/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/1/1833-caa6dab751bfde48ae922e5490526fc4.jpg?1668076712" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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