Maurice Buckmaster
| Maurice Buckmaster | |
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| Born |
11 January 1902 Brereton, Staffordshire |
| Died | 17 April 1992 (aged 90) Forest Row, East Sussex |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1940–46 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Commands held | F-Section, Special Operations Executive |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Relations | Anna Cecilia (nee Reinstein) |
Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster OBE (11 January 1902 – 17 April 1992 in Forest Row, East Sussex) was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Apart from his war service, he was a corporate manager with the French branch of the Ford Motor Company, in the postwar years serving in Dagenham. He wrote two memoirs about his service with the Resistance during World War II.
Maurice Buckmaster was born on 11 January 1902 at Ravenhill, Brereton, Staffordshire, England, the son of Eva Maria and Henry James Buckmaster, a company director running a brewery, he grew up at Marsham Lodge, Gerrards Cross. He was educated at Eton College, where he was captain of soccer. He showed an academic bent and gained an exhibition to study Classics at Oxford University, but was unable to take this up as his father went bankrupt. After financial problems in early 1912, his father received orders under the "Bankruptcy Act of 1914" in June 1921. He was allowed to stay on at Eton for a final year through a scholarship and by tutoring younger boys and from that point onwards was entirely dependent on his own resources and after doing some teaching made his way to France where he soon became almost fluent in the language and gained a reporters position with the French newspaper Le Matin Later he moved into banking for six years before being employed to help establish branches of the Ford Motor Company in several European countries, eventually becoming a senior manager with the French branch of the American Ford Motor Company. While travelling France in this role he gained a massive knowledge of the towns and roads networks.
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