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Old 18-12-2008, 03:57 AM
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Major H. R. V. Jordan

Does anybody happen to know about him ?

I'm intrigued by this man who commanded a counter-intelligence unit in the Western Command during the Second World War ! there isn't much to be found about him .... except there is his memoir at the IWM !! and the odd reference to him here ......

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Does anybody happen to know about him ?

I'm intrigued by this man who commanded a counter-intelligence unit in the Western Command during the Second World War ! there isn't much to be found about him .... except there is his memoir at the IWM !! and the odd reference to him here ......

Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and ... - Google Book Search

and here .....

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Cut, thrust and strikes; Has the BBC's grand inquisitor gone soft? Peter Elson is not interrupted once by the charming and self-effacing John Humphrys.(News) | Article from Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | HighBeam Research

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It's a time and place as remote as Superman's fictional home planet of Krypton: it was Liverpool in 1966.
The then 22-year-old John Humphrys was appointed BBC television correspondent, based in Castle Chambers, 34 Castle Street. He says: 'In those days the BBC had a representative in the area, called Major H R V Jordan, whom you addressed as ' Major'.
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All I can add is that he was commissioned as 2n Lt in 1943, he left the service as Captain, but given the honorary rank of Major

Horace Reginald Victor JORDAN (181033)
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All I can add is that he was commissioned as 2n Lt in 1943, he left the service as Captain, but given the honorary rank of Major

Horace Reginald Victor JORDAN (181033)

Looks like he was still around in 1965 !! an Honorary Major now an Honorary Masters

Emeritus Professors, Professors and Honorary Graduates Liverpool University

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Horace Reginald Victor JORDAN MA

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