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Lieutenant-Colonel Aidan Sprot, officer who won an Immediate MC in France in 1944 – obituary

Lieutenant-Colonel Aidan Sprot, officer who won an Immediate MC in France in 1944 – obituary
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Obituary: Aidan Sprot MC, Scot whose bravery helped free France from Nazis

Submitting. Commissioned in 1940, the young officer served in Palestine, survived the Battle of El Alamein, took part in the invasion of Italy and fought through North-west Europe where his fearless leadership under fire earned him the Military Cross. In the words of his citation he had shown “outstanding skill and initiative and a complete disregard for danger.” The son of Mark and Meliora (correct) Sprot, his father had been a soldier and it had always been his ambition to follow in his footsteps. But he was forbidden to do so on leaving Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. As a result he initially worked in banking until volunteering on the outbreak of the war in 1939.

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