Miles Clifford Explained

Sir Geoffrey Miles Clifford, KBE, CMG, ED (16 February 1897 – 21 February 1986) was the Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1946 to 1954.[1]

Life

Clifford served in the British Army in World War I, and then in the Colonial Service in Nigeria.[2] In World War II, he with Imbert Bourdillon, son of Bernard Bourdillon, assisted Philippe Leclerc of the Free French forces in his operation of August 1940 against Douala.[3] He was later awarded the Resistance Medal with rosette.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mitchell. Frank. CLIFFORD, Sir (GEOFFREY) MILES. 2021-08-22. Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  2. Web site: Clifford, Sir Geoffrey Miles (1897 - 1986) . livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
  3. Book: Fichter . James R. . British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries . 2 August 2019 . Springer . 978-3-319-97964-9 . 280 . en.

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