Cumberlege Claude M B (Mike)

NAME Cumberlege, DSO & Bar*,

Greek War Cross

Claude Michael Bulstrode (Mike)
RANK IN GREECE

Lieutenant RNR

 

Promoted to Lieutenant Commander in September 1943 (when a PoW)

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

N/K

PRISONER

N/K

UNIT IN GREECE

RNR & SOE;

O/C caiques HMS Dolphin, HMS Hedgehog, HMS Escampador

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

April 1941 – April 1943

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Captured 30 April 1943
POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Averoff Prison, Athens**

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp, Austria;

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Germany

NOTES

*Executed between Feb and April 1945. Bar awarded posthumously.

**As were his team and also Robin McNabb, SOE

STORY

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Mike Cumberlege Foreword

,Mike Cumberlege Pre Greece

Mike Cumberlege Greek Campaign

Mike Cumberlege Post Greece

Mike Cumberlege Post Script

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