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A post-War C.M.G., Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel I. I....
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A post-War C.M.G., Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel I. I. Milne, Royal Engineers and Secret Intelligence Service, who subsequently served as Head of Section V (Counter Espionage) with M.I.6, and was later a Senior Clerk in the House of Commons
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Spink, London, case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse officially named ‘Ian Innes Milne’, complete with riband device, with riband bar and lapel pin, in case of issue, about extremely fine (5) £700-£900
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C.M.G. London Gazette 4 June 1965: Ian Innes Milne, Esq., O.B.E., Foreign Office.
O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 24 June 1946: Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer London Gazette 23 May 1947
The official citation states: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Royal Engineers, British Army, serving from January to June 1945 in a special branch of military operations, facilitated the interchange with his American Allies of information on subjects of strategic urgency. Later he carried out headquarters policy in the field to such good effect as materially to hasten the defeat of the enemy.’
Ian Innes Milne was born in Brentford on 16 June 1912, the nephew of Alan Alexander Milne, the author of ‘Winnie the Pooh’, and was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 2 November 1940, and after serving briefly as Assistant Adjutant in the Survey Training Centre at Ruabon, North Wales, was recommended as a potential recruit to the Secret Intelligence Service (M.I.6) by his close friend Kim Philby, a friendship that would haunt him in later years.
After being employed in espionage work during the Second World War, for whic hhe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States, Milne remained with M.I.6 in the post-War years, and served overseas at the British Embassies at Teheran, Berne, and Tokyo. In 1953, as a former head of Section V (Counter Espionage), he was part of a 14 man team of both M.I.6 and C.I.A. officers involved in Operation Gold, which aimed to dig a tunnel from West Berlin into the Soviet sector, with the aim of allowing Allied spies to tap into the telephone and telegraph cables through which the Soviet military command in Germany communicated with Moscow. However, also part of this 14 man team was the double agent George Blake, who betrayed the the tunnel to his Soviet handlers.
Created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1965, Milne’s final M.I.6 posting was to Hong Kong. He retired from M.I.6 in 1969, and subsequently served as a Senior Clerk in he House of Commons, notably serving as Clerk of the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Expenditure. He finally retired in 1976, and died in Yeovil, Somerset, on 17 February 2010, aged 97.
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The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Spink, London, case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse officially named ‘Ian Innes Milne’, complete with riband device, with riband bar and lapel pin, in case of issue, about extremely fine (5) £700-£900
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C.M.G. London Gazette 4 June 1965: Ian Innes Milne, Esq., O.B.E., Foreign Office.
O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 24 June 1946: Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer London Gazette 23 May 1947
The official citation states: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Royal Engineers, British Army, serving from January to June 1945 in a special branch of military operations, facilitated the interchange with his American Allies of information on subjects of strategic urgency. Later he carried out headquarters policy in the field to such good effect as materially to hasten the defeat of the enemy.’
Ian Innes Milne was born in Brentford on 16 June 1912, the nephew of Alan Alexander Milne, the author of ‘Winnie the Pooh’, and was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 2 November 1940, and after serving briefly as Assistant Adjutant in the Survey Training Centre at Ruabon, North Wales, was recommended as a potential recruit to the Secret Intelligence Service (M.I.6) by his close friend Kim Philby, a friendship that would haunt him in later years.
After being employed in espionage work during the Second World War, for whic hhe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States, Milne remained with M.I.6 in the post-War years, and served overseas at the British Embassies at Teheran, Berne, and Tokyo. In 1953, as a former head of Section V (Counter Espionage), he was part of a 14 man team of both M.I.6 and C.I.A. officers involved in Operation Gold, which aimed to dig a tunnel from West Berlin into the Soviet sector, with the aim of allowing Allied spies to tap into the telephone and telegraph cables through which the Soviet military command in Germany communicated with Moscow. However, also part of this 14 man team was the double agent George Blake, who betrayed the the tunnel to his Soviet handlers.
Created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1965, Milne’s final M.I.6 posting was to Hong Kong. He retired from M.I.6 in 1969, and subsequently served as a Senior Clerk in he House of Commons, notably serving as Clerk of the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Expenditure. He finally retired in 1976, and died in Yeovil, Somerset, on 17 February 2010, aged 97.
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A post-War C.M.G., Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel I. I. Milne, Royal Engineers and Secret Intelligence Service, who subsequently served as Head of Section V (Counter Espionage) with M.I.6, and was later a Senior Clerk in the House of Commons
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Spink, London, case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse officially named ‘Ian Innes Milne’, complete with riband device, with riband bar and lapel pin, in case of issue, about extremely fine (5) £700-£900
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C.M.G. London Gazette 4 June 1965: Ian Innes Milne, Esq., O.B.E., Foreign Office.
O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 24 June 1946: Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer London Gazette 23 May 1947
The official citation states: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Royal Engineers, British Army, serving from January to June 1945 in a special branch of military operations, facilitated the interchange with his American Allies of information on subjects of strategic urgency. Later he carried out headquarters policy in the field to such good effect as materially to hasten the defeat of the enemy.’
Ian Innes Milne was born in Brentford on 16 June 1912, the nephew of Alan Alexander Milne, the author of ‘Winnie the Pooh’, and was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 2 November 1940, and after serving briefly as Assistant Adjutant in the Survey Training Centre at Ruabon, North Wales, was recommended as a potential recruit to the Secret Intelligence Service (M.I.6) by his close friend Kim Philby, a friendship that would haunt him in later years.
After being employed in espionage work during the Second World War, for whic hhe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States, Milne remained with M.I.6 in the post-War years, and served overseas at the British Embassies at Teheran, Berne, and Tokyo. In 1953, as a former head of Section V (Counter Espionage), he was part of a 14 man team of both M.I.6 and C.I.A. officers involved in Operation Gold, which aimed to dig a tunnel from West Berlin into the Soviet sector, with the aim of allowing Allied spies to tap into the telephone and telegraph cables through which the Soviet military command in Germany communicated with Moscow. However, also part of this 14 man team was the double agent George Blake, who betrayed the the tunnel to his Soviet handlers.
Created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1965, Milne’s final M.I.6 posting was to Hong Kong. He retired from M.I.6 in 1969, and subsequently served as a Senior Clerk in he House of Commons, notably serving as Clerk of the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Expenditure. He finally retired in 1976, and died in Yeovil, Somerset, on 17 February 2010, aged 97.
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The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Spink, London, case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse officially named ‘Ian Innes Milne’, complete with riband device, with riband bar and lapel pin, in case of issue, about extremely fine (5) £700-£900
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C.M.G. London Gazette 4 June 1965: Ian Innes Milne, Esq., O.B.E., Foreign Office.
O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 24 June 1946: Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer London Gazette 23 May 1947
The official citation states: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Innes Milne, Royal Engineers, British Army, serving from January to June 1945 in a special branch of military operations, facilitated the interchange with his American Allies of information on subjects of strategic urgency. Later he carried out headquarters policy in the field to such good effect as materially to hasten the defeat of the enemy.’
Ian Innes Milne was born in Brentford on 16 June 1912, the nephew of Alan Alexander Milne, the author of ‘Winnie the Pooh’, and was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 2 November 1940, and after serving briefly as Assistant Adjutant in the Survey Training Centre at Ruabon, North Wales, was recommended as a potential recruit to the Secret Intelligence Service (M.I.6) by his close friend Kim Philby, a friendship that would haunt him in later years.
After being employed in espionage work during the Second World War, for whic hhe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States, Milne remained with M.I.6 in the post-War years, and served overseas at the British Embassies at Teheran, Berne, and Tokyo. In 1953, as a former head of Section V (Counter Espionage), he was part of a 14 man team of both M.I.6 and C.I.A. officers involved in Operation Gold, which aimed to dig a tunnel from West Berlin into the Soviet sector, with the aim of allowing Allied spies to tap into the telephone and telegraph cables through which the Soviet military command in Germany communicated with Moscow. However, also part of this 14 man team was the double agent George Blake, who betrayed the the tunnel to his Soviet handlers.
Created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1965, Milne’s final M.I.6 posting was to Hong Kong. He retired from M.I.6 in 1969, and subsequently served as a Senior Clerk in he House of Commons, notably serving as Clerk of the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Expenditure. He finally retired in 1976, and died in Yeovil, Somerset, on 17 February 2010, aged 97.
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