What Xan Fielding did next..

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  1. Jonathan Ball

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    An advertisement placed in the Times by Xan Fielding on 31 July 1950.

    Tough but sensitive ex-classical scholar, ex-secret agent, ex-guerrilla leader, 31, recently reduced to penury through incompatibility with the post-war world: Mediterranean lover, gambler, and general dabbler; fluent French and Greek speaker, some German, inevitable Italian: would do anything unreasonable and unexpected if sufficiently rewarding and legitimate.

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  2. Hillfox28

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    Jonathan - is that a photo of Xan Fielding?

    Thanks
     
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    I recall reading some of his columns in the Spectator, the last one from memory being in 1979 reporting on Rhodesia.
     
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    Personal Number: 159770
    Rank: Major
    Name: Alexander Wallace FIELDING, DSO, MiD
    Unit: Cyprus Regiment ; Special Operations Executive ; Intelligence Corps


    London Gazette : 6 January 1941
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35034/supplement/130/data.pdf
    CYPRUS REGIMENT.
    The undermentioned to be 2nd Lts.:—
    1st Sept. 1940: —
    Alexander Wallace FIELDING (159770).

    London Gazette : 15 October 1942
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35745/supplement/4479/data.pdf
    The King has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East: —
    The Distinguished Service Order.
    Lieutenant Alexander Wallace Fielding (159770), The Cyprus Regiment.

    London Gazette : 30 August 1945
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37244/supplement/4373/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gaJlant and distinguished services in the field: —
    Intelligence Corps.
    Maj. (temp.) A. W. FIELDING, D.S.O. (159770)

    London Gazette : 24 May 1949
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38618/supplement/2555/data.pdf
    INTELLIGENCE CORPS.
    The undermentioned Lts. (War Subs. Capts.) from Emerg. Commns. to be Capts., 1st Jan. 1949, and are granted the hon. rank of Maj.:—
    A. W. FIELDING (159770).
     
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