SELBY, Neil Beauchamp

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Rank: 
Captain (later Major)
Unit / Base: 
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
1st Royal Dragoons,R.A.C.​
Inns of Court Regiment,R.A
Service: 
Army
Number: 
117474
Born: 
Saturday, March 13, 1915
Birthplace: 
Sheffield
Died : 
Friday, October 1, 1943
Died on active service
Age: 
28
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Athens Memorial, Greece
Neil Selby 11 Commando
Major Neil Selby, Special Operations Executive, died whilst a prisoner of war having been captured during SOE Operations in Yugoslavia. He was shot whilst attempting to escape. Formerly commanded 4 Troop of No.11 Commando. Son of Alexander Prideaux Selby and Mary Thorpe Selby.
 
Sources
CWGC.
SOE Personnel file / National Archives file HS9/1340/1.
Basil Davidson, Special Operations Europe, p.127.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/9.
[Image] © NMS/2012 courtesy of National Museum Scotland.
 
Notes
Additionaly commemorated on a family headstone at St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Old London Road, Mickleham, Mole Valley, Surrey. (IWM Memorials Register ref 99184).
 
Photo of Commando in Gallery: 
Yes
Archive pages : 
No 11 Commando

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