M. R. D. Foot
| M. R. D. Foot | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael Richard Daniell Foot 14 December 1919 London, England |
| Died | 18 February 2012 (aged 92) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
Michael Richard Daniell "M. R. D." Foot, CBE, TD (14 December 1919 – 18 February 2012) was a British military historian and former British Army intelligence officer and special operations operative during the Second World War.
The son of a career soldier, Foot was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became involved romantically with Iris Murdoch. He joined the British Army on the outbreak of the Second World War and was commissioned into a Royal Engineers searchlight battalion. In 1941 searchlight units transferred to the Royal Artillery. By 1942, he was serving at Combined Operations Headquarters, but wanting to see action he joined the SAS as an intelligence officer and was parachuted into France after D-Day. He was for a time a prisoner of war, and was severely injured during one of his attempts to escape. For his service with the French Resistance he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Croix de Guerre. He ended the war as a major. After the war he remained in the Territorial Army, transferring to the Intelligence Corps in 1950.
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