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][2]

Life

Clifford served in the British Army in World War I, and then in the Colonial Service in Nigeria.[3] 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.[4] He was later awarded the Resistance Medal with rosette.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Clifford, Sir (Geoffrey) Miles". Who's Who & Who Was Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Mitchell, Frank. "CLIFFORD, Sir (GEOFFREY) MILES". Dictionary of Falklands Biography. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Clifford, Sir Geoffrey Miles (1897 - 1986)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
  4. ↑ Fichter, James R. (2 August 2019). British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Springer. p. 280. ISBN 978-3-319-97964-9.


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