MORE, George Robert Melville Harvey
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Rank:
Temporary Captain (later Colonel)
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Engineers
Service:
Army
Number:
85558
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Sunday, November 3, 1918
Died :
June, 1991
Operations:
Temporary Captain George More was awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distinguished service during Operation Exporter at Litani River on 9/10 June 1941 [1][1a].
- January 1944 operating with the SOE in Serbia's Kopaonik Mountains [2].
- 1945 awarded a bar to his Military Cross for distinguished service [3][3a].
- 26 March 1971 (Colonel) retires from military service [4].
Sources
[1] London Gazette 35316, page 6086; errata LG 35352, page 6694.
[1a] Recommendations for Awards / Mational Archives file WO373/27/19.
[2]+[Images] His son Henry More.
[3] London Gazette 36907, page 562.
[3a] Recommendations for Awards / National Archives file WO373/97/21.
[3a] Recommendations for Awards / National Archives file WO373/97/21.
[4] London Gazette 45331, page 2938.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 93.
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