Charles Drage

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Charles Harding Drage (March 1897 - July 1983 ) was a British officer and non-fiction author.

Life

As a young man, Drage entered the Royal Navy . During the First World War he took part in the Gallipoli Campaign as a midshipman. From 1923 to 1926 he was stationed on board the sloop HMS Bluebell in Chinese waters.

Drage eventually retired from the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander (Corvette Captain). Then he found use in the British foreign intelligence service MI6 : In the 1930s and 1940s Drage headed the department of MI6 in southern China (Secret Intelligence Service, SIS) in Hong Kong. To disguise his work, he held the position of a trade advisor to the British government with offices in the headquarters of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank .

In the 1950s and 1960s Drage published a series of popular science biographies about various personalities he had met during his time in East Asia: For example, about the adventurer Morris Cohen and the commander of the life guard of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and former Berlin SA- Chief Walther Stennes . The book about the latter ( The amiable Prussian ) has also found a translation into German under the title Als Hitler went to Canossa .

Fonts

  • Two Gun Cohen London 1954 (published in the US as The Life and Times of General Two-Gun Cohen , 1954)
  • Chindwin to Criccieth: the life of Godfrey Drage , 1956.
  • The Amiable Prussian , London 1958. (In German: When Hitler went to Canossa , Berlin 1982)
  • The Strange Profession of William King , London 1962.
  • General of Fortune. The Story of One-Arm Sutton , 1963.
  • Servants of the Dragon Throne Being the Lives of Edward and Cecil Bowra , 1966.
  • Family story. The Drages of Hatfield , 1969.
  • Taikoo , 1970.
  • The Poon, and Other Stories , 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "A Great Character" (Obituary in the Spectator of October 21, 1983)
  2. ↑ Kwong Chi Man / Tsoi Yiu Lun: Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840-1970 , 2014, p. 147; George Wright-Nooth: Prisoner of the Turnip Heads: Horror, Hunger and Humor in Hong Kong 1941-1945 , 1994, p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Drage, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drage, Charles Harding (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH March 1897
DATE OF DEATH July 1983