| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| River House, Essex | Intelligence Officer | 27 Sep 1943 | 25 Apr 1944 |
| Essex | Intelligence Officer | 12 Dec 1942 | 1944 |
Cranleigh School, Surrey
Wine merchant / taster
31 May 1940 Commissioned into the Welsh Guards serving in the Training Battalion at Sandown Park, Esher (Commanded there by Lord Glanusk, later commander of Auxiliary Units).
27 Jul 1941 Joined 1st Battalion Welsh Guards from the Training Battalion as Second Lieutenant.
1942-1944 Captain Auxiliary Units Intelligence Officer Essex.
Prewar he was a wine merchants between 1934-1939. Postwar he became a buyer for Harvey’s of Bristol, a famous wine critic and a wine buyer to Queen Elizabeth.
He wrote various Publications including: Bacchus on the Wing (1966), The Changing Face of Wine (1968), Pick of the Bunch (1970), Winetaster’s choice (1973), 10 Vols Harry Waugh’s Wine Diaries (1972-1987).
The French government decorated him with the Merite Agricole in 1984 and then as a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite National in 1989, the same year in which he was made an Honorary Master of Wine. He was appointed MBE in 1994, and was referred to in an American newspaper as “the man with the million-dollar palate”.
In 1970 he married his former secretary, Pruedence D'arcy Waters (his first marriage to Diana Spengler nee Oppenheim in 1936, which he never referred to, was dissolved after the war) and, aged 69, became the father of twins.
When he died in 2001 aged 97, wine critic Jancis Robinson wrote: “In the middle years of this century he trained almost everyone who was anyone in wine at the time. No one who ever met him could fail to be impressed by his knowledge and impeccable manners.”
He was a distant cousin of Auberon Waugh.
Daily Telegraph Obituary (subscription required)