Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (1915 - 2011)

Born 11 Feb 1915 in London, England, United Kingdom

Died 10 Jun 2011 at age 96 in England, United Kingdom

Biography

Patrick Fermor DSO OBE was born in London, Middlesex, England.

Patrick Fermor DSO OBE has English ancestors.

Patrick Fermor DSO OBE is Notable.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Patrick Fermor DSO OBE was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Patrick Leigh Fermor was born Thursday the 11th of February 1915 at London, England, United Kingdom.^[1][2]
The son of Lewis Leigh FERMOR and Aileen Taaffe AMBLER^[3]

Family

Patrick Leigh Fermor married Joan Elizabeth Eyres RAYNER nee MONSELL in 1968 at Westminster, London, England^[4]
Joan died in 2003^[5]

Published Works

Patrick Leigh Fermor authored many books.^[6]

• The Traveller's Tree ISBN 9781589760981 (2001)
  
• The Violins of Saint-Jacques 1977 (1953)
  
• A Time to Keep Silence (1957), with photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell.[40] This was an early product of the Queen Anne Press, a company managed by Leigh Fermor's friend Ian Fleming. In it he describes his experiences in several monasteries, and the profound effect the time spent there had on him.
• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (1958)
  
• Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (1966)
  
• A Time of Gifts – On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (1977, published by John Murray)
  
• Between the Woods and the Water – On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (1986)
  
• Three Letters from the Andes (1991)
  
• Words of Mercury (2003), edited by Artemis Cooper
  
• Introduction to Into Colditz by Lt Colonel Miles Reid (Michael Russell Publishing Ltd, Wilton, 1983). The story of Reid's captivity in Colditz and eventual escape by faking illness so as to qualify for repatriation. Reid had served with Leigh Fermor in Greece and was captured there trying to defend the Corinth Canal bridge in 1941.
  
• Foreword of Albanian Assignment by Colonel David Smiley (Chatto & Windus, London, 1984). The story of SOE in Albania, by a brother in arms of Leigh Fermor, who was later an MI6 agent.
• In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley. (Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, the youngest of the six Mitford sisters, was the wife of the 11th Duke of Devonshire).
• The Broken Road – Travels from Bulgaria to Mount Athos (2013), edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron from PLF's unfinished manuscript of the third volume of his account of his walk across Europe in the 1930s.[41]
• Abducting A General – The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete (2014)
• Dashing for the Post: the Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2017), edited by Adam Sisman
• More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2018), edited by Adam Sisman
• Patrick Leigh Fermor An Adventure (2012) John Murray, Artemis Cooper

Death & Burial

Patrick died in 2011 at England, United Kingdom and is buried at Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, England.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ FERMOR, PATRICK MICHAEL AMBLER GRO Reference: 1915 M Quarter in ST. PANCRAS Volume 01B Page 94 gro.gov.uk
2. ↑ Births Mar 1915 FERMOR Patrick M. Ambler Pancras 1b 94 freebmd.org.uk
3. ↑ doi.org
4. ↑ Marriages Mar 1968 FERMOR PATRICK M.L. RAYNER WESTMINSTER 5E 2084 freebmd.org.uk
5. ↑ wikipedia.org
6. ↑ wikipedia.org
7. ↑ FERMOR, PATRICK MICHAEL 1915 GRO Reference: DOR Q2/2011 in GLOUCESTERSHIRE (488-1A) Entry Number 505055939 gro.gov.uk

See also

https://patrickleighfermor.org^[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org^[9]
https://neoskosmos.com^[10]
https://daily.jstor.org^[11]
https://www.imdb.com^[12]