Crewe-Read, John Offley

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Date of birth:: October 21st, 1908 (Mexico)
Date of death:: April 1996 (Wallingford/Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
Service number:: 41102
Nationality:: British (1801-present, Kingdom)

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Bronzen Leeuw (BL)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
Awarded on:: July 18th, 1947

Royal Decree No. 29, dd. 24-4-1946

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Period:: Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Rank:: Lieutenant-Colonel
Awarded on:: May 1st, 1953

Sources

- Nederlandse onderscheidingen aan Britse staatsburgers voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38018/supplement/3322/data.pdf
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39839/supplement/2405/data.pdf

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