Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
---|---|---|---|
Duntish Court, Dorset | Intelligence Officer | 12 Dec 1942 | 13 Aug 1943 |
Dorset | Intelligence Officer | 12 Dec 1942 | 02 Feb 1943 |
Dorset | Intelligence Officer | 04 Feb 1943 | 13 Aug 1943 |
Norfolk | Intelligence Officer | 13 Aug 1943 | 03 Dec 1944 |
Essex | Intelligence Officer | 01 Jan 1941 | 11 Dec 1942 |
River House, Essex | Intelligence Officer | 1942 | 1942 |
Charterhouse, Oxford
Post war Headmaster
18 May 1940 2nd Lieutenant R.F.H Darwall-Smith was reported wounded as part of the Expeditionary Force in France
Intelligence Officer Essex as Captain late 1941 to 22 Jan 1942
Intelligence Officer Dorset as Major 12 Dec 1942 at Bingham Melcombe House 16 March 1943 and left 13 Aug 1943 from Duntish Court.
Intelligence Officer Norfolk as Major. Arrived 13 Aug 1943 and was still there 22 Apr 1944.
11 Jul 1964 ceased to belong to Territorial Reserve Officer
Prewar
Oxford University 1935-1939 cricket team
Postwar
Headmaster school at Seaford, Sussex
Played one season first class cricket for Sussex (1946)
Family connections
Brother John Anderton Darwall-Smith, born 1912, served with Phantom (GHQ Liaison Regiment)
The Last Ditch, David Lampe
British Army Casualty List TNA ref WO417/1
Wisden Cricket Monthly