Syria Free French

Served on detached duty with French troops in the Middle East with French Forces in Syria, 1941, initially as part of the Hadfield Spears Unit.

The group sailed on January 16, 1941 aboard the Africa Maru from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  to Capetown, South Africa.

C. N. Jeffreys, LeClair Smith and A.R. Stuyvesant stayed with the French Forces after this campaign finished and formed the nucleus of the AFS unit with the FFC attached to the British Eighth Army in the Middle East.

Ball, Laurence Randall

Born Died
* 1900/09/05† 1946/04/28
Who
WWI driver, WWII driver
When
WWI, WWII
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Carson, Robert

Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Dickie, Robert Burns

Born Died
* 1911/07/13† 1978/07/06
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Foster, Francis Arthur

Born Died
* 1920/06/15† 2001/11/26
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Hayes, David Morris

Born Died
* 1913/07/17† 1994/09/19
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Jefferys, Charles Norman

Born Died
* 1917/05/13† 1998/02/24
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Knowlton, Martin Perry

Born Died
* 1920/07/30† 2009/03/12

Co-founder of Elderhostel

Who
WWII driver
When
WWII
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Latham, Edward

Born Died
* 1910/10/12† 1979/10/20
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Little, Arthur West, Jr.

Born Died
* 1900/11/25† 1988/07/26
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Muir, Peter Upton

Born Died
* 1898/01/03† 1974/08/14
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Ransom, Andrew H.

Born Died
* 1910/01/15† 1950/10/04
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Sewall, Oscar Crosby

Born Died
* 1901/08/08† 1978/03/17
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Smith, LeClair

Born Died
* 1894/03/04† 1983/01/09
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Stuyvesant, Alan Rutherford

Born Died
* 1905/07/11† 1954/02/08
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII

Stuyvesant, Lewis Rutherford

Born Died
* 1903/08/04† 1944/09/06
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII
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Throop, William McIntosh

Born Died
* 1904/03/15† 1960/08/13
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII
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Wellborn, John Dent

Born Died
* 1899/12/22† 1969/12/14
Who
WWII driver
When
WWII