324647 (ME/714500038) Stephen Edmund VERNEY, MBE, Intelligence Corps

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  1. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Personal Number: 324647
    Army Number: ME/714500038
    Rank: Captain
    Name: Rt. Rev. Stephen Edmund VERNEY, MBE
    Unit: RASC, MI6, Intelligence Corps


    London Gazette : 18 August 1944
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36659/supplement/3817/data.pdf
    The undermentioned cadets to be 2nd Lts.:—
    INTELLIGENCE CORPS.
    2nd May 1944:—
    ME/714500038 Stephen Edmund VERNEY (324647)

    London Gazette : 18 October 1945
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37310/supplement/5097/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field: —
    To be Additional Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order:—
    Lieutenant Stephen Edmund VERNEY (324647), Intelligence Corps (Menai Bridge)

    London Gazette : 1 July 1952
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39585/supplement/3576/data.pdf
    INTELLIGENCE CORPS.
    Lt. S. E. VERNEY, M.B.E. (324647), relinquishes his commn., 2nd July 1952, and is granted the hon. rank of Capt.

    London Gazette : 11 August 1970
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45170/page/8869/data.pdf
    The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 31st day of July 1970, to grant to the Reverend Stephen Edmund Verney, M.A., Canon Residentiary in Coventry Cathedral, the Canonry in the Collegiate Church or Free Chapel of St. George in the Castle of Windsor, void by the resignation of the Reverend Canon Robert Henry Hawkins, M.A.
     
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  2. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    See also:
    • Person Page
    • Stephen Verney - Wikipedia
    • The Right Rev Stephen Verney obituary - "The fourth of the eight children of Sir Harry and Lady Rachel Verney, he had brothers who joined the armed forces when war broke out. However, Stephen was a conscientious objector and so chose to interrupt his university studies to work with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in north Africa.

      Seeking timber for a hospital, he was grossly overcharged. This angered him, and as a result he joined the Royal Army Service Corps as a private, went to Cairo and contacted MI6.

      His Greek was put to good use among the partisans in occupied Crete. Now a member of the Political Warfare Executive, Verney negotiated the release of several partisan prisoners by threatening to castrate "his" German prisoners. On another occasion, he arranged to be taken by ambulance to the enemy's HQ hospital. Contriving to meet the Italian commanding officer, he negotiated the defection of the whole battalion the next morning. He arranged their evacuation after confiscating all their weapons, which he, alone with his MI6 colleague John Stanley, guarded in a warehouse."


    His brothers:
     
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  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Now there's a name and a half for 'loyalty to the crown'.

    EdmundVerney.jpg

    Legend has it that sir Edmund's hand was found still clasped to the broken pole of the (briefly) captured royal standard at Edgehill.
    (Something I doubted more before learning of some very rare gauntlets having a mechanism to fix or clamp to a pole. Seems unlikely & unwise, but who knows. Legends, eh.)
     
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  4. Guy Hudson

    Guy Hudson Looker-upper

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    Coventry Evening Telegraph 3rd June & 14th November 1958
     
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