Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough (born May 6, 1889 in Sedgehill , Wiltshire , † February 11, 1951 ), was a British landowner and officer.

Life and activity

Chaloner was the second son of Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough , and his wife Margaret Mary Ann Brocklesby Davis. He was educated and trained at Rottingdean, Radley College , Eton College, and Trinity College , Cambridge.

From 1914 to 1916 Chaloner took part in the First World War: As an officer in the Yorkshire Regiment with the rank of captain, he was assigned to the Royal Flying Corps , for which he flew missions in Egypt , England and France. During a bombing mission in St. Quentin on July 1st 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme , he was shot down, and then for two years in German prisoner of war in a POW camp in the celebrations Rosenberg in Rosenberg in Kronach held. In May 1918 he managed to escape and settle in the neutral Netherlands, where he was interned for the remainder of the war before he was released back home in January 1919.

From 1920 Chaloner continued his military career in the British Army, in which he reached the rank of major .

Since Chaloner's older brother died in an accident in World War I, when his father died on January 23, 1938, he inherited his title of nobility, including the associated seat in the House of Lords .

In August 1939 Chaloner returned to the Royal Air Force, where he initially took on administrative tasks before he took on intelligence tasks in February 1940: In May 1940 he was assigned to the 41st Squadron of the Air Force as an intelligence officer. This was initially stationed in Hornchurch and later in Tangmere. In his position with the 41st Squadron he remained until June 1945. He moved with this unit in December 1944 to the European continent and in April 1945 to Germany.

Due to his position in the secret service, Chaloner was targeted by the National Socialist police officers in 1940 at the latest, who classified him as an important target: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who were particularly dangerous or dangerous to the Nazi surveillance apparatus important, which is why, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht , they should be located and arrested by the special SS commandos following the occupation forces .

family

In 1923 Esther married Isabella Madeleine Hall. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. The son Richard succeeded him as 3rd Baron Gisborough.

literature

  • Who was who: 1951-1960. A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period , Vol. 5, 1961, p. 424.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Chaloner on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Chaloner, Thomas, 2nd Baron Gisborough
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gisborough, Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, 2nd Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British landowner and officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Sedgehill , Wiltshire
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1951