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Sir Geoffrey Miles Clifford, KBE, CMG, ED (16 February 1897 – 21 February 1986) was the Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1946 to 1954.

Life

Clifford served in the British Army in World War I, and then in the Colonial Service in Nigeria. In World War II, he with Imbert Bourdillon, son of Bernard Bourdillon, assisted Philippe Leclerc of the Free French forces in his operation of August 1940 against Douala. He was later awarded the Resistance Medal with rosette.

References

1. "Clifford, Sir (Geoffrey) Miles". Who's Who & Who Was Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Mitchell, Frank. "CLIFFORD, Sir (GEOFFREY) MILES". Dictionary of Falklands Biography. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
3. ^ "Clifford, Sir Geoffrey Miles (1897 - 1986)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
4. Fichter, James R. (2 August 2019). British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Springer. p. 280. ISBN 978-3-319-97964-9.

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